Significant moments in African History: The Zanzibar revolution

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wikipedia said:
Around 3:00 am on 12 January 1964, 600–800 poorly armed, mainly African insurgents, aided by some of the recently dismissed ex-policemen, attacked Unguja's police stations, both of its police armouries, and the radio station.[1][2] The Arab police replacements had received almost no training and, despite responding with a mobile force, were soon overcome.[1][16] Arming themselves with hundreds of captured automatic rifles, submachine guns and Bren guns, the insurgents took control of strategic buildings in the capital, Zanzibar Town.[17][18] Within six hours of the outbreak of hostilities, the town's telegraph office and main government buildings were under revolutionary control, and the island's only airstrip was captured at 2:18 pm.[17][18] The Sultan, together with Prime Minister Muhammad Shamte Hamadi and members of the cabinet, fled the island on the royal yacht Seyyid Khalifa,[18][19] and the Sultan's palace and other property was seized by the revolutionary government.[3] At least 80 people were killed and 200 injured, the majority of whom were Arabs, during the 12 hours of street fighting that followed.[3] Sixty-one American citizens, including 16 men staffing a NASA satellite tracking station, sought sanctuary in the English Club in Zanzibar Town, and four US journalists were detained by the island's new government.[18][20]

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The revolution ended 200 years of Arab dominance in Zanzibar, and is commemorated on the island each year with anniversary celebrations and a public holiday.

Zanzibar Revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
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the zanzibar massacre

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lpY8_mKvjk"]Arab Massacre in Zanzibar - YouTube[/ame]

[ame=http://youtu.be/e7FfewhjMPY]Rare footage from Africa Addio - YouTube[/ame]

if hitler was black, I bet he would celebrated by blacks too.
 

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the zanzibar massacre

Arab Massacre in Zanzibar - YouTube

Rare footage from Africa Addio - YouTube

if hitler was black, I bet he would celebrated by blacks too.

I can't speak for anyone else here but I'm pretty sure most of us do not condone the killing of innocents. Its unforgivable and a tragedy, but in war that kind of thing happens. You have to understand the point of view of these people, they tried to come to an understanding peacefully but they were denied at every chance and their pleas fell on deaf ears. Eventually people lose their reason and turn to violence.

In the midst of war there is little room for rationality and the emotions take over. They start to see the Arabs who didn't even do anything to them as evil and Arabs as inherently evil because of the Arab people that opressed them and because there was a culture in place that made anyone who wasn't Arab feel like a second class citizen. They didn't have the time nor the thought to actually think "hey maybe all arabs aren't the same. We should try to reconcile with them to build a better country" they just thought "we must never let Arabs rule over us again. Even if we must kill every single one of them, we can never let our children suffer the same treatment we did". Its also worth noting that many Arabs in Africa STILL consider blacks to basically be slaves. Only a matter of time until something like this pops off in Mauritania

And Hitler isn't celebrated by whites. Crazy whites, sure, but regular whites? :russ: There is a person who is close to a "black version of hitler" his name is Robert Mugabe and a lot of blacks that know about him aren't cosigning him either :huhldup:
 

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BUMP!

Interesting how this was basically a Haitian revolution against Arab/islamic supremacy.

Judging from the video it seems like the rebel forces didn’t just target by race/skin color but “arabness” or Arab identity

Either that or maybe “Arabs” were also no different than “Black” back then :wow:

The white Europeans escaped however :gucci:
 
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