In a country where the security services have long been used by the dictator to repress citizens and violently crush opposition, Tanzanian citizens are today showing extraordinary courage. They are standing face-to-face and toe-to-toe with heavily armed forces, refusing to be intimidated into silence. It is a deep tragedy that this is happening in Tanzania, the Tanzania of Julius Nyerere, one of the true founding fathers of African liberation and integrity. Yet, like so many liberation movements