Kenya demands British apology over Mau Mau

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Patrick Mathangani

Kenya has demanded an apology from Britain for the inhuman treatment of Mau Mau freedom fighters and their sympathisers.

Vice President Moody Awori yesterday said the brutal torture of Kenyans during the struggle for independence was a deliberate move to alienate their land.

"The fact that colonialists put so much effort to conceal their actions means they knew what they were doing was wrong," Awori said.

Although official colonial records say an estimated 11,000 Mau Mau were killed during the liberation struggle, new research estimates the number to be 100,000. <snip>

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1. kick to combine

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2. Kenya wants an apology from Britain

So, like, who were the barbarians here?

Nairobi - Kenyan Justice Minister Kiraitu Murungi has urged Britain to formally apologise for the brutality it committed against the country's independence fighters, Mau Mau, during the colonial period.

"I call upon the government of the United Kingdom, as a civilised nation to do the honourable thing and issue a formal apology to the Mau Mau, their families and the people of Kenya for these barbaric crimes against humanity," Murungi said.

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Crushed testicles, weeks of starvation, being tossed into hot water and onto ant hills, being smeared with blood and released to dogs, beatings, nakedness and having soil stuffed into their rectums were just some of the litany of horrors the Mau Mau claim to have been subjected to.

The Mau Mau, which started as a grassroots movement among the Kikuyu tribe to recover arable farmlands appropriated by British colonial settlers, evolved into a brutal full-fledged rebellion in 1952 that demanded Kenyan independence.

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3. But that would be admitting war crimes and genocide

... and reparations... as its in living memory.... doubtful that
the torys will want to go there... even if it is indeed the right
thing to do.

Kenya deserves a profound apology from britain. I wonder if blair will
be true to his committment to africa, to admit his own national crime
in return for some street cred.

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4. My God man! Don't give junior or Rummy or

Condi any ideas.....