Ard Macha, yes I do.

I've read about the Mau-Mau Rebellion, & how it was an example of EXTREME avagery on both sides. Strangely (or perhaps not so strangely...) the attitude of the British Military seemed to be that the treatment HAD to be brutal because the Mau-Mau were being so. They seemed to miss the irony that they dismissed the Mau-Mau's brutality as being typical of an ignorant, savage tribal culture (unlike those Kenyans who had adopted Western ideals....) while faiing to see that being a Westerised, so-called 'civilised' culture, should have behaved BETTER.

Malaya I saw differently, my Dad had been in Singapore with the R.A.F. until just before the Japanese occupation (& then again later as a P.o.W.) but not there during the 'Emergency'. Partly through my Dad, & partly through what I read, I had believed it had been characterised by an effective 'hearts & minds' campaign. I learned a little different when I got to know a guy with a Brtish Army father & Malay mother (who had lived I think all his life in UK) born in the 60's & thus after it was all over. I still don't think it was in the same class as the Mau-Mau Rebellion, but still far from being as 'civilised' as I had previously thought.