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Massacre of Arabs during the Zanzibar Revolution

1964 CE · People's Republic of Zanzibar, Africa · War

Massacre of Arabs during the Zanzibar Revolution
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In January 1964, during and following the Zanzibar Revolution, Arab residents of Zanzibar were victims of targeted violence committed by the island’s majority Black African population. Arabs were mass murdered, raped, tortured and deported from the island by Black African militiamen under the Afro-Shirazi Party and Umma Party.

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