Category: Atrocity, from Wikidata’s classes “pogrom”, “mass murder”
1947 anti-Jewish riots in Aden
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The Aden riots of December 2–4, 1947 targeted the Jewish community in the British Colony of Aden. During the civil war phase of the 1948 Palestine war, the riots broke out from a planned three-day Arab general strike in protest of United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 (II), which created a partition plan for Mandatory Palestine. The riots resulted in the deaths of 82 Jews, as well as wide-scale devastation of the local Jewish community of Aden, including the complete looting of 60% of Jewish-owned businesses and the destruction of a synagogue and the two Jewish schools. There were also 33 Arabs, 4 Muslim Indians, and one Somali killed during the riots. The Aden Protectorate Levies, a military force of local Arab-Muslim recruits dispatched by the British governor Reginald Champion to quell the riots, were responsible for much of the killing.
The greatly diminished Jewish sense of security resulting from the riots and the economic devastation to their businesses and properties that resulted led to the rapid decline of the Jewish community and mass departure to Israel of a majority of its members in the subsequent three years and the complete demise of Adeni Jewry by 1967.
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