These traditional practices, and the fact that many city dwellers fled to their cousins in the country when the fighting began near Stone Town, became a catalyst for slaughter.
Mambo haya mawili, pamoja na ukweli kuwa wengi wa wakaazi wa mjini walikimbilia kwa ndugu zao wa mashamba pale ghasia zilipokaribia mji mkongwe yakawa ni kichocheo kikubwa cha mauaji ya maangamizi.