The Kabkab massacre was a massacre committed by French colonial forces in Chad in 1917. More than 400 scholars, jurists and local Muslim leaders were killed, and their throats were cut with machetes.
The massacre paved the way for the French colonialists to tyranny in the region, eliminating the Islamic religion and the Arabic language. The victims of the massacre were killed by cutting off their heads with a cleaver. The city of Abéché in Chad saw a sharp decline in its population for fear of the oppression of the occupation.