The same year the government granted a hunting concession to the Otterlo Business Corporation (OBC).

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Owned by royals from the United Arab Emirates, the terms of OBC's concession grant it hunting rights in Loliondo.

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Now, Tanzania's government wants to give more land to the hunters by establishing a 1, 500 sq km (579 sq mile) wildlife corridor exclusively for OBC.

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Since 1992, OBC has flown in wealthy clients to shoot lions and leopards, angering nomadic Maasai cattle herders who are blocked from pastures in the hunting grounds.

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In response to the Maasai allegations, the Tanzanian government referred CNN to an earlier statement in which the minister for natural resources denied OBC were a factor in the decision to evict.

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However, ownership of business among OBC's - an acronym for Other Backward Castes or the "middle castes" who "neither suffering the extreme social and economic discrimination of the Scheduled Castes, nor enjoying the social privileges of the upper castes" - has grown.

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They're going to Iraq or Afghanistan immediately upon commissioning in their OBC - their Officer Basic School - and then being sent back again, and so we are already seeing signs of strain in the Army as well as in the Marine Corps.

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