OHCHR Reiterates Call For Probe Into Election Protesters Massacre In Tanzania As AI Calls For Accountability Amid New Death Toll Of 3000

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has reiterated previous call by its parent organization, United Nations (UN), for a probe into the horrific massacre of young election protesters during and after the recent sham general elections in Tanzania. The elections were held on October 29, 2025. The reiteration was made in a OHCHR's press release on November 11, 2025.

In the press release, OHCHR in reiterating the UN call, observed that multiple sources suggest hundreds of young election protesters and other people were killed by security forces, and unknown number of people were injured or detained during and after the sham general elections in Tanzania.

The UN human rights body continued that there are reports that security forces in Tanzania have been spotted removing bodies of those they gunned down, from streets and hospitals and ferrying them to undisclosed places, in an apparent attempt to conceal evidence about the wanton killing of unarmed innocent civilians.

OHCHR reiterates call for probe into election protesters massacre in Tanzania as AI calls for accountability amid new death toll of 3000

Also, OHCHR reiterated the UN call for unconditional release by the repressive authorities in Tanzania, of all opposition politicians arrested prior to the elections including the leader of CHADEMA party Tundu Lissu, as well as those who have been arbitrarily incarcerated after the elections. At least 150 people including children are said to have been arrested, incarcerated, and charged with treason.

Later, Amnesty International (AI) in reacting to the appalling massacre of young election protesters in Tanzania in a compelling statement directed to the African Union (AU) and published November 14, 2025, demanded accountability in Tanzania, saying that the East African country has been plunged into a deepening human rights crisis by its now illegitimate leader called Samia Suluhu Hassan who grabbed a second term in office through sham general elections that were obviously fraudulent and characterized by use of lethal force against those who protested peacefully or said anything against the deliberately flawed electoral process. The now illegitimate leader has now become a big joke worldwide following dismissal of her claimed over 90% win of the vote in the sham presidential poll, by several prominent leaders of the world including reportedly: former President Barack Obama of USA (without mentioning her name), former President Ian Khama of Botswana, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, and President William Ruto of Kenya (also without mentioning her name). By inference, also ridiculing her claimed electoral victory are African Union (AU), Southern Africa Development Community (SADC), European Union (EU), UK, Canada, and Norway, all of which have said the 2025 general elections in Tanzania that entailed the presidential poll, were neither free nor fair.

More specifically, in its statement, AI observed that Tanzania has been confronted with repression and fear since the now illegitimate female leader inherited power legally in 2021. Prevailing repression and fear in the country have therefore been there long before the sham general elections on October 29, 2025. The brutal female leader unleashed the repression and fear on citizens by deliberately silencing dissent through abductions, murder, and enforced disappearances that targeted opposition politicians, government critics, human rights activists, journalists, among others, say AI.

AI continued that on the sham general elections day and 5 days that followed, the now illegitimate leader and her government committed grave human rights violations that included unlawful killings, enforced disappearances, and unlawful detentions, under the cover of a 6-day nationwide shutdown of the internet.

AI concluded that the horrific atrocities by the authorities in Tanzania under the country's now illegitimate leader are part of a coordinated crusade to supress dissent and silence political opposition. Because there is no accountable government in Tanzania right now, the terrible atrocities will continue there unless regional and international actors intervene with strong actions, AI warned in its statement. Accordingly, AI calls on the whole world to make one crucial choice, either allow grave violations of basic human rights and freedoms of the people of Tanzania by keeping silent and doing nothing at all, or stand in solidarity with the brutalized people of Tanzania by saying and doing something against the violations.

More about the human rights violations in Tanzania, some African media on November 12, 2025, reported that the now illegitimate leader of Tanzania has been unleashing repression and fear on citizens in mainland Tanzania with the help of a tiny but brutal and feared cabal consisting some die-hard loyalists who hail from semi-autonomous Zanzibar. The latter are said to include her son Abdul Halim Hafidh Ameir, her private secretary Waziri Salum, and Head of the country's intelligence service Suleiman Abdubakar Mombo. Her son has a private militia and behind the abductions, murder, enforced disappearances of opposition politicians and government critics before and after the sham general elections, say the reports.

Even earlier, an activists movement called Jumuiya Ni Yetu alias The Community Is Ours, that comprises of 40 African activist groups, provided more information about the crackdown on young election protesters by security forces in Tanzania, in a damning joint report released in Nairobi, Kenya, and reported by some African media on November 8, 2025.

According the media reports, Jumuiya Ni Yetu in its report observed that at least 3000 young election protesters and other people including street children were gunned down by security forces in Tanzania from the sham elections day to November 7, 2025, with thousands more missing. The activists movement is said to have continued that authorities in Tanzania were dumping dead election protesters and other people killed in the crackdown by security forces, into mass graves across the country, especially in Mabwepande Ward in Kinondoni District, Dar es Salaam Region, as they desperately strive to conceal evidence of the extrajudicial killings.

Finally, some African media reports on November 12, say that Tanzanian youths that belong to the Gen Z demographic cohort, alias the zoomers, have announced planned new nationwide protests against the government, that will be held on December 9, 2025 to coincide with the country's Independence Day. Inherent in the planned new protests are demands for, among others, release of all election protesters that have been arrested and charged with treason, government to settle medical bills of people injured in the crackdown on election protesters by security forces, and above all the now illegitimate female leader should go immediately. The zoomers are said to have vowed that this time, the new protests will continue until when all their demands have been met.

In response to the zoomers' planned daring new protests, the now illegitimate female leader and her authorities have reportedly begun hunting online for suspected leaders of the planned protests, saying that those talking about protests are trying to destabilize the country. But then, let us be honest here. Who is really destabilising Tanzania, those fighting chronic oppression, or the oppressors? Remember that those who were fighting for freedom and majority rule in the then apartheid South Africa were labelled terrorists by the then apartheid regime and their allies. The apartheid regime that thought was insuperable finally crumbled and is now just history!

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