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Article: Mau Mau: Raw British brutality
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- New African
- Article date:
- August 1, 2009
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Beatings and floggings, apart from forced and hard labour, were common and constant features of the concentration camps where the British detained members and supporters of the Mau Mau movement. Hewing rocks under the burning sun; carrying buckets on the head filled with stones or overflowing with urine and faeces; being forcibly pushed into a cattle dip full of pesticides - all these measures were enforced with kicks and blows from truncheons and rifle butts. Zarina Patel gives voice to Mau Mau survivors' accounts and their simple but powerful demand for justice.
I ASKED AN OLD MAN WALKING WITH A STICK AND BEING guided by an aide, "Mzee, have you been blind since childhood?" "No," said ...