Zanzibar Post-Revolution ViolenceZanzibar · 1964“The keepers of the atlas wrote this one down so the fire would not forget it.”On 12 January 1964, a few hundred fighters of the Afro-Shirazi and Umma parties — led by the self-styled 'Field Marshal' John Okello — overran the police, toppled Sultan Jamshid, and ended two centuries of Arab rule on the island in a single morning. What came after the victory was vengeance: over the following weeks Arab and South Asian Zanzibaris were hunted, killed and shipped from their homes, the violence filmed from a passing aircraft and disbelieved abroad anyway.