Kenya: New Information on Freedom Fighter's Execution

18 February 2019

As Kenyans marked the 62nd anniversary of the execution of liberation hero Dedan Kimathi Monday, fresh information has emerged about the push and pull on how to kill him after a colonial court had sentenced him to hang.

The information is contained in the papers of the colonial Nyeri district information officer Alistair Matheson who died in September 2002.

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