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Tanzanian archbishop is right; there's no peace without justice

Tanzania President Samia Suluhu.[AFP]

Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Dar es Salaam, the Most Rev Jude Thaddeus Ruwa’ichi, gave a very moving tribute to the lives lost in the Tanzanian post-election violence last month emphasising the centrality of life as a God-given gift that no one has a right take. He was exceptionally categorical that the brutality meted out on innocent Tanzanians was unwarranted as the law enforcers would have arrested those considered to have violated the law.

What caught my attention is the Archbishop’s call to the government of Tanzania that there is no peace without justice. He wondered that either through ignorance or deliberate intention people focus on peace without the fundamental principle of justice. Killing people has no forgiveness before God. His way forward was in no doubt; a call to justice and truth.

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