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Article: MASSACRE BY MACHETE; Scores were hacked to death and burned alive during the horrific Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya 50 years ago this month. But was it a noble battle for independence, or a pointless slaughter of both Africans and whites?
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- October 22, 2002
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Byline: NICK CRAVEN
CREEPING silently into the sleeping village under the darkness of an African night, the armed men from the forests first wrapped electrical cable around the circular thatched huts to secure the doors.
Drenching the thatch with petrol, they set it alight and waited for the screams. As those inside, mostly women and children, frantically tried to escape through the windows, they were set upon with pangas, razor-sharp machetes. The lucky ones died quickly. Others, though mortally wounded, lingered in agony all night long.
This was Kenya at the height of the Mau Mau rebellion which resulted in a State of Emergency being declared ...