UK cops probe 'torture' in Mau Mau uprising

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London - Police on Wednesday said they are investigating claims that British officials committed murder, rape and torture in putting down the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya 50 years ago.

The claims were made in a British Broadcasting TV programme, White Terror, broadcast last year, which said more than 6 000 statements have been taken from survivors of the uprising, all claiming human rights abuses.

The Mau Mau was a poorly equipped peasant movement that waged a rebellion in the 1950s in an attempt to regain land taken by settlers when Kenya was a British colony. Although defeated militarily, the uprising ultimately led to independence for the East African nation in 1963.

Most of the movement's followers were members of the Kikuyu tribe, the largest in the country, and many had served in the African regiments of the British army during World War 2.

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The evil 'The British Emipre In Colour. In the Pink'. This is why Bush is exempt from the ICC.

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1. Kenya's Mau Mau want Britain to pay up

Veterans of Kenya's Mau Mau independence movement said on Monday they had given evidence to a London-based law firm as part of efforts to win compensation from Britain for alleged human rights abuses in the 1950s and 1960s.

"Our lawyer, Martin Day, last week collected massive evidence from veterans, which we will use against the British government," Mau Mau Trust Chairperson Joseph Ngacha, who represents around 10 000 former fighters, said from central Kenya.

He said at least 1 500 Mau Mau veterans were expected to give accounts of torture and other abuses during the British colonial period, which ended when Kenya gained independence in 1963.

"Research done by scholars from Kenya, Britain, France, Canada, New Zealand as well as top universities like Cambridge and Harvard, between 1985 and 1996, have unequivocally implicated that (British) kingdom for a trail of deaths and suffering between 1952 and 1963," Ngacha said.

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So what has our great nation become under Bush; Britain or Israel?

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