The victims of Tontons Macoutes could range from a woman in the poorest of neighborhoods who had previously supported an opposing politician to a businessman who refused comply with extortion threats (ostensibly as donations for public works, but which were in fact the source of profit for corrupt officials and even President Duvalier).
Okello alikubali wazo hilo ambalo kikao kilifanyikia Dar es Salaam 1/2/1964, ikakubaliwa urais apewe kiongozi wa chama cha siasa yaani Abeid Karume lakini asiwe na sauti yoyote katika Zanzibar. Baraza hilo lilijumuisha wapiganaji watiifu wa Okello ambao hawakuwa Wazanzibari asilia (Mawakala wa Tawi Maalumu leo TISS).