It is interesting to have a look at the numbers in the second post. Of course, the numbers in different sources differ, but two facts meet the eye at once:

(1) 13 Oct 06 - 08:09 AM does not even mention the several thousand black victims of the Mau Mau uprising. Whole villages that had not joined the rebels were burnt down and inhabitants hacked to death.
(2) 13 Oct 06 - 08:09 AM's use of the words "white" or "European" is very creative. Even if one takes the lowest available numbers of "white" deaths one does not get the figures 13 Oct 06 - 08:09 AM reports. 13 Oct 06 - 08:09 AM simply does not count soldiers as "white" or "European" even if they were. What 13 Oct 06 - 08:09 AM perhaps means without telling us is "European civilian" deaths.

The fact of course remains that many more blacks have died from outrageous actions by the security forces (including black members BTW) and the British Army but such an ingenious presentation of the numbers by 13 Oct 06 - 08:09 AM basts in my eyes a shadow upon the motives of 13 Oct 06 - 08:09 AM.

Wolfgang