Zanzibar Revolution
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The revolution was carried out by some 300 armed men under the leadership of "field marshal" John Okello. Okello was a little known man, who had lived on Pemba Island, having come to Islands some years earlier from Uganda or Kenya.
The movement led to the poorly-known massacre of some 5000 Arabs, whose families had been living in Zanzibar for centuries, between January 18 and 20. The Italian filmmaker Gualtiero Jacopetti and his crew shot (from a plane and an helicopter) footage of the operations as they took place, during the filming of his shockumentary Africa Addio, which premiered in 1966 and represents the only existing document of the mass murder.
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