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Our Tiananmen Moment: Tanzania’s Cry for Justice Amid the October Massacres | Opinion By Zitto Kabwe (@zittokabwe) When the Tiananmen massacres of June 4, 1989, were happening in China, I was in Standard Six at Kigoma Primary School. I didn’t see it on TV as others did because we didn’t have a TV at home. I read about it much later, and I have re-read materials about it in the last 10 days since the October 29 massacres in different regions of Tanzania. Neither did I see the massacres which took place in Dar es Salaam and other regions like Mwanza and Arusha, as there was no internet. On October 30, I joined people in Kigoma demonstrating at the Kigoma Ujiji Municipal offices against the election results. I was later arrested and detained at Central Police Station. There, some police officers came to brief me about the situation in Dar es Salaam, Mwanza and Mbeya. One officer told me he had lost his young brother. Still, I didn’t realise how big the problem was. I came to see the videos of the killings after the internet was allowed back. It was the October Massacres! It was our Tiananmen moment. Read thechanzo.com/2025/11/13/our…