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The Arabs successfully ousted Portuguese rule in Zanzibar and established dominance there. [6] The Sultanate of Zanzibar was ruled by an Arab sultan and a largely Arab ruling class. The Zanzibar Revolution was inspired by John Okello, an African preacher from Uganda who belonged to the small Christian minority of Zanzibar.
The massacre of Arabs during the Zanzibar Revolution ensued, and the insurgents proceeded to loot Arab and South Asian–owned properties and businesses, and rape or murder Arab and Indian civilians on the island. The death toll is disputed, with estimates ranging from several hundred to 20,000.
Control of Zanzibar eventually came into the hands of the British Empire; part of the political impetus for this was the 19th century movement for the abolition of the slave trade. Zanzibar was the centre of the Arab slave trade, and in 1822, the British consul in Muscat put pressure on Sultan Said to end the slave trade. Said came under ...
Zanzibar [a] is an insular semi-autonomous region which united with Tanganyika in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanzania.It is an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, 25–50 km (16–31 mi) off the coast of the African mainland, and consists of many small islands and two large ones: Unguja (the main island, referred to informally as Zanzibar) and Pemba Island.
Haifa Oil Refinery massacre: December 30, 1947 39 Arabs beat 39 Jews to death and injured 49 after an Irgun bombing which killed 6 [1] Balad al-Shaykh massacre: January 1, 1948 50 17–70 Arabs killed in Haifa [1] N/A January 3, 1948 4 3 Jews, 1 Briton killed in Jerusalem [1] Bombing of Arab National Committee HQ January 4, 1948 14
In 1964, towards the end of the Zanzibar Revolution—which led to the overthrow of the Sultan of Zanzibar and his mainly Arab government by local African revolutionaries—John Okello claimed in radio speeches to have killed or imprisoned tens of thousands of the Sultan's "enemies and stooges", [49] but estimates of the number of deaths vary ...
Within Zanzibar, the revolution is a key cultural event, marked by the release of 545 prisoners on its tenth anniversary and by a military parade on its 40th. [26] Zanzibar Revolution Day has been designated as a public holiday by the government of Tanzania; it is celebrated on 12 January each year. [27]
25% or more of the Arab population (50,000 people) of Zanzibar were killed by the end of 1964. [156] Maya genocide: Guatemala: 1962 1996 166,000 [159] 166,000 [160] The Guatemalan genocide was the massacre of Maya civilians during the Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996) by successive US-backed Guatemalan military governments.