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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.
The slave owners on Zanzibar attempted, often successfully, to prevent their slaves from being aware of the abolition of slavery, and ship them abroad to sell them in Muscat, Jeddah and Mecca; in April 1898, the British stopped an Arab boat in which a rich Arab male passenger had brought with him 36 male and female servants to sell in Arabia ...
In 1698, Zanzibar fell under the control of the Sultanate of Oman, which developed an economy of trade and cash crops, with a ruling Arab elite and a Bantu general population. Plantations were developed to grow spices; hence, the moniker of the Spice Islands (a name also used for the Dutch colony the Moluccas , now part of Indonesia ).
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 ...
25% or more of the Arab population (50,000 people) of Zanzibar were killed by the end of 1964. [159] Maya genocide: Guatemala: 1962 1996 166,000 [162] 166,000 [163] The Guatemalan genocide was the massacre of Maya civilians during the Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996) by successive US-backed Guatemalan military governments.
Prague's location in Central Europe makes it an ideal starting point for day trips or weekend getaways. One day, I headed north to visit a few national parks, filming locations for "The Chronicles ...
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 the early morning hours of Dec. 26, 1996, Patsy Ramsey called 911 to report her 6-year-old daughter JonBenét missing, and found a rambling ransom note left inside their Boulder, Colorado, home.