Three Kenyans who say they were victims of torture and sexual abuse at the hands of British colonial rulers during the 1950s Mau Mau uprising have been granted the right to sue Britain, according to AFP.
Jane Muthoni Mara, Paulo Muoka Nzili and Wambugu Wa Nyingi told the London High Court that they were subjected to torture and sexual mutilation. AFP reports that the lawyer for the Kenyans said Nzili was castrated, Nyingi severely beaten and Mara subjected to sexual abuse in detention camps during the Mau Mau rebellion.
The fourth claimant, Ndiku Mutwiwa Mutua, has died since legal proceedings began.
The British government had argued through her lawyers that the former freedom fighters should have instead sued the Kenya government, which took over all liabilities after independence.
In his judgment, which gives the Kenyans permission to claim damages from the British government, High Court judge Richard McCombe said: "I am justified in concluding that the available documentary base is very substantial indeed and capable of giving a very full picture of what was going on in government and military circles in both London and Kenya during the 'emergency'."
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I would live to see the report. The Mau Mau committed atrocities against whites and black Kenyans. Imbibed disgusting concoctions which people were made to drink whilst mouthing oaths to kill and torture white farmers, which they did when the opportunity arose.
Martin Foster, it was the british who went into africa and tried to enslave those people. Many of them were killed by the british. The mau mau came along to fight the british.
THE PAST IS GONE; WE NOW IN THE PRESENT. AFRICANS DESERVE BETTER ESPECIALLY FROM THOSE WHO STRIPPED THEM FROM THEIR DIGNITIES, PRESTIGE,etc. IF IT WAS NOT FOR ORGANIZATION LIKE THE MAU MAU, THE KEYANS WOULD, SHOULD AND COULD HAVE SUFFER BITTERLY IN THE HANDS OF THE WHITES "BRITISH WHITES". SO, LET AFRICANS BUT ESPECIALLY SO, THE KENYANS GIVE THANKS TO THE MAU MAU. FURTHER, LET THIS BE A LESSON TO KJRS 120 AND THE REST OF HIS/HER HOLLOGANS THAT TIME HAS CHANGE AND IT HAS CHANGE FOR THE BETTER OF ALL AFRICANS. KJRS 120, YOU ARE ONE DUMB ASS.
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Mr Foster you sound like the typical white racist expat dirt bags I have come to be familiar with on my travels to East Africa. Before you open your stupid mouth get get your facts straight, you talk as if the Mau Mau.
Just popped up out of thin air firstly many of the Mau Mau freedom fighters actually fought the Japanese in the Kabaw Valley near the Indian border for the British. Kenyans had grievances against white settlers since at least the 1920s when settlers shot a Kenyan women in mouth. For protesting mistreatment by white expats even had heavily anti African organisations similar to far right parties in Europe.
Mr Foster Britain couldn't draw on India for soldiers so that your lot couldn't murder Africans anymore because India became independant in 1947 white Brits ungrateful bastards.
John Maina Kakihu of the Mau Mau Political Wing puts it better than I do.
"In 1942 we had fought for the British, but when we came home from war they gave us nothing". By the end of the war 3000 white settlers had 43,000 square kilometers of the best land and only cultivated 6%. Probably too busy getting pissed and wife swapping, to do anything truly useful.
Kenyans 5.23m population had without ownership 135,000 square kilometers of land which wasn't very good for anything, taking the Mau Mau oath was a capital offence 1000+ Kenyans were hanged.