Massacre of Arabs during the Zanzibar Revolution
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title:
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. The exact death toll is unknown, although scholarly sources estimate the number of Arabs killed to be between 13,000 and more than 20,000. It has been described by some as
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1964 mass killing of Arabs in Zanzibar
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_Arabs_during_the_Zanzibar_Revolution
date created:
2023-12-09T15:26:31Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T14:22:25Z
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