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Thread #53449   Message #824653
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
12-Nov-02 - 07:14 PM
Thread Name: BS: Courage of Your Convictions
Subject: RE: BS: Courage of Your Convictions
In what way did they mass murder tens of thousands of Kenyans?

Read here - - this is an article tied in to a documetary ("Kenya: White Terror") shown on BBBC2 this week.

Dramatic evidence has been unearthed of such systematic British brutality in the former colony of Kenya that it may require the rewriting of imperial history. Hitherto secret files show that the then colonial secretary, Alan Lennox Boyd, sanctioned a policy of violence towards interned guerrilla suspects...

...Professor Elkins says the scale of suffering and death was far higher than previously thought and the Kikuyu death toll could have been as high as 50,000.