TOMRIC News Agency (Dar es Salaam)
Giviniwa Paul
8 October 2001
Dar Es Salaam — Senior police officers in the country are meeting at Moshi Police College in northeast Tanzania to discuss among other things, terrorist attacks going on in various parts of the world including Tanzania.
It was not immediately established whether they would discuss a report on terrorism issued by FBI, but like other East African countries, Tanzania has been featured into a list of 34 countries in the world where terrorist groups do exist. Started today, during the four-day meeting police officers will exchange views and experience on how to protect peace and stability in the country.
Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police Aden Mwamunyange has said that during the meeting, chief security officers would also set plans on how to fight local and international terrorism for the coming years. He said there are groups in the country, which display fanaticism by supporting the incidence of terrorism that took place in the United States last month. The terrorists hit the World Trade Centre (WTC) and the Pentagon. Without disclosing the names or organizers, Mwamunyange said that the groups do not know what they were doing.
Opened by the Vice President Dr. Ali Mohammed Shein, the meeting is chaired by the Inspector General (IGP), Omar Mahita. The meeting on terrorist attacks, starts when the World Council of Churches and Christian Council of Tanzania and Evangelical Lutheran Church in the country, have organized a meeting to overcome violence. President Benjamin Mkapa opened the meeting in Moshi yesterday.
"Violence has no color, religion or tribe, but rather it is misguided with concepts of superiority of one over the other," Mkapa told the gathering yesterday. Pointing out on the September 11 terror attacks in the United States, he said the responsibility for such attacks should be directed to the perpetrators an not to their region, tribe or race. Explaining further, he said most of terror activities like the September 11 terror attacks in US was a result of loss of people's hope for a better future, which drives them to crime and violence.
"The link between poverty and violence has been established, the challenge facing governments in poor countries to remind rich industrialized countries to compliment and support policies, initiatives and programs to fight poverty, and poverty-related violence in poor countries," he explained. Called an international ecumenical meeting of the World Council of Churches, the conference is attended by over 200 delegates, mostly clerics from all over the world.
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