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Title: | The Zanzibar Treason Trial |
Author: | Chase, Hank |
Year: | 1976 |
Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
Volume: | 3 |
Issue: | 6 |
Period: | May-August |
Pages: | 14-33 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Zanzibar |
Subjects: | assassination offences against national security Politics and Government |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056247608703287 |
Abstract: | More than four years ago Sheikh Abeid Karume, Chairman of the Zanzibar Revolutionary Council and First Vice-President of the United Republic of Tanzania, was assassinated. In the aftermatch of an ensuing investigation the Zanzibari authorities announced that they had uncovered a farreaching plot 'conceived and master-minded' by Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu, a former leader of the nationalist movement and a important actor in the 1964 revolutionary insurrection which established the present Zanzibari administration, a cabinet minister in the Tanzanian government from 1964-72, and an internationally influential communist. This article briefly summarises the development of the Zanzibari social formation through the colonial period, traces the developments of the post-colonial period, that resulted in Karum's assassination, reviews the process of transition occasioned by his death, and evaluates the subsequent mass treason trial which left more than 40 people under sentence of death. Bibl. Note. |