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May 27, 2012
Police on Tanzania's archipelago of Zanzibar appealed for calm Sunday (May 27th) after violent clashes with protestors calling for the independence of the islands left several injured.
"We are trying to maintain peace and restore calm," said Zanzibar police commissioner Mussa Ali Mussa, who said a demonstration by an Islamist group called Uamsho had turned violent on Saturday.
Rioters threw stones as police fired tear gas and water cannons in Stone Town, the capital of the semi-autonomous Tanzanian archipelago. Small groups of protestors were still on the streets on Sunday, AFP reported.
Uamsho, which claims to safeguard Islamic customs on the majority-Muslim island, had been holding demonstrations demanding for an end to the union with mainland Tanzania.
Uamsho's supporters clashed with police on Saturday after they marched on a police station following the arrest of one of their leaders.
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