2023-04-26 19:07:15
England – After driving a wedge of enmity between the Arabs and the other inhabitants, Britain handed over Zanzibar in early 1964 to Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah, one of the sons of Sultan Oman Said, after which the gates of hell were opened.
Britain shook its hands, and after a week Zanzibar declared its independence as a constitutional monarchy, and soon there was a bloody and violent uprising against Arabs and Indians that began on January 12, 1964, during which, according to estimates, about 20 thousand people were killed.
In a documentary program about that massacre entitled: “Goodbye, Africa!”, the voice of the commentator says: Thousands of Arabs are walking in an elegant line to the site of their execution, mass graves half full of corpses, women and children trembling in front of the barrels of the guns of black militants, people running to the ocean on Hope for salvation and their possessions on their heads,” while the director of the documentary describes those events as “perhaps the worst genocide in the history of the continent,” very long before the massacres of Rwanda and Congo.
Despite the various estimates of the number of Arab victims in that massacre, it practically wiped out a third of the Arab population of the archipelago, physically or by expulsion from there, without any tangible reasons or justifications.
Zanzibar is an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, located about 30 kilometers off the coast of East Africa, south of the equator. The archipelago consists of two main islands surrounded by a number of smaller islands.
The inhabitants of this archipelago are a mixture of African, Arab, Persian, Indian, European and Chinese origins.
Zanzibar was practically under the influence and rule of the Omani Arabs from 1698 until 1964, when that horrific massacre ended their presence and extended a long history there.
Specialized studies say that the Bantu tribes who came to the island in 4000 BC were the first to inhabit the island through an ancient land bridge.
Arab Muslims arrived in Zanzibar from the Gulf region, especially from Oman, thanks to commercial activities, and their presence there began to be established by the year 700 AD.
The Omani Arabs settled on the island, and the first coral stone mosque was built in the “Kizimkazi” area, located in the southwest of the island in 1107, while the migration of Omani Arabs to it increased around the year 1200.
Before that, the Portuguese took control of Zanzibar in 1498, and kept it for two hundred years, until the Omani Arabs expelled them in 1652, and later in 1698 the Portuguese handed over Mombasa to the Arabs, on the Kenyan coast today.
After the Zanzibar massacre, which can be described as the Andalusia of the Arabs in Africa, the United Tanganyika and Zanzibar joined the Republic of Tanzania on April 26, 1964.
Source: RT
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