Mimeograph transcripts of 16 days of hearings (25 Sept.-13 Oct. 1961) by a Commission of Inquiry on civil disturbances which ensued following voting on June 1,1961 to elect 23 members of the Legislative Council in the British Protectorate of Zanzibar.

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According to Lawrence E.Y. Mbogoni in his Aspects of colonial Tanzania history (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, c2013, pages 189-190), on the morning of June 1, 1961, with voting still in progress, "disturbances broke out in Zanzibar town, spread to the rural areas of the island on 2 June, and continued, mainly in the central and northern areas of Zanzibar, until the security forces gained control of the situation on 8 June. As a result of these disturbances, sixty eight people were killed and 381 injured. Many of those killed were 'Manga' Arabs living in rural areas of Zanzibar Island. On 8 September 1961, the British Resident, Sir George Mooring, appointed a Commission of Inquiry...composed of Sir Stafford Foster-Sutton, legal counsel and chairman, Sir Vincent Tewson, and Caryll Archibald Grossmith, Esquire, commissioners." If this collection contains your copyrighted content, please see our Take Down Requests page.

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