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    "content": "The other possible explanation is from history. If you remember well, those who have read the history of West Africa, South Africa and East Africa, the colonialists had one way of depriving Africans of their resources. You cause two or three communities to fight one another and then the community that conquers the other one takes others as slaves and surrenders them to you and you take those slaves to America. When they are scattered you come and take the gold, copper and everything else and then, of course, to some, it is too late to safeguard their resources. It even happened here in Kenya when the colonialists were tried to get the White Highlands. They caused havoc among the Kambas and Maasais who fled and then they took the land. In this particular case in Turkana, I am not surprised that the State is behaving this way. I am also not surprised that Sen. Munyes is saying that they are going to stop the operations of mining oil because, really, what is happening is to cause chaos so that that Turkanas do not have control of their land and people who have this land who then sell it to oil companies will make a kill and go away and then they do not care what happens after that. It is a very serious matter of conflict between natural resources and the needs of citizens and secondly human rights of people who should control their natural resources and the forces of capital. There is always a contradiction and I think this contradiction should be laid out barely. We should not just speak as if we do not know how governments behave under such circumstances and how primitive accumulation takes place under such conditions. Thank you."
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