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I will remove the sentence mentioning the Guangzhou Massacre in this article, for the following two reasons:
It is not directly (in a natural sense) related to the Yangzhou Massacre, and occurred more than a century later.
The number of "up to 120,000 Muslim Arabs, Persians, Jews, Zoroastrians, and Christians" killed in Guangzhou is extremely suspicious - it violates basic common sense. How large could the total population of Guangzhou be at the time? A very conservative estimate would be that it's less than a million. If 120,000 Muslim Arabs, Persians, Jews, Zoroastrians, and Christians were living in Guangzhou, then these people constitute more than 12% of Guangzhou's population at the time. In fact, Guangzhou's population was probably less than half a million, in which case 120,000 would be more than a quarter of Guangzhou's population. It's very unlikely so many Muslim Arabs, Persians, Jews, Zoroastrians, and Christians were living in Guangzhou at the time, let alone killed. I suspect therefore that the "up to 120,000" estimate is merely anecdotal, and thus stating it as a matter of fact is most likely very misleading.