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British soldiers

assist police searching for Mau Mau members,

Karoibangi, Kenya, 1954.

Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images

 Uncovering the brutal truth about the British empire

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https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/aug/18/
uncovering-truth-british-empire-caroline-elkins-mau-mau

Soldiers guard suspected Mau Mau fighters in the Kikuyu reserve

at the time of the uprising against British colonial rule in Kenya

in a picture taken in October 1952.

Photograph: AFP/Getty

Kenyan, 94, testifies about killings by British soldiers

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Last modified on Sunday 26 June 2016    15.20 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/26/kenyan-94-testifies-killings-british-soldiers-munyaka-mau-mau

Mau Mau rebels    "Kenya emergency"    1952

In the early 1950s,

Mau Mau rebels

murdered 32 people

in an uprising against

colonial rule in Kenya.

Britain's response was brutal:

150,000 Kenyans were detained

in camps where,

survivors claim,

prisoners were beaten,

tortured, sexually abused

and even murdered.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2006/oct/13/kenya.foreignpolicy

https://www.theguardian.com/world/mau-mau

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/aug/18/
uncovering-truth-british-empire-caroline-elkins-mau-mau

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/26/
kenyan-94-testifies-killings-british-soldiers-munyaka-mau-mau

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/25/
claims-of-maltreatment-in-mau-mau-rebellion-cannot-be-fairly-tried

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/21/kenya-
british-empire-myths-historians

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/10/pilloried-conchie-kenya-
now-vindicated

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/07/
torture-detention-human-rights-colonialism

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/06/
mau-mau-sinning-quietly

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/06/
britain-maumau-empire-waiting

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/08/
britain-imperial-myth-repackaging-fantasy

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/05/
mau-mau-victims-kenya-settlement 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/05/
kenyan-mau-mau-cover-up-mistreatment 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/05/
kenya-evil-empire-editorial

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/23/britain-fights-kenya-torture-ruling

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/galleries/2012/10/07/mau-mau-rebellion-photos.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/20/rise-failure-british-empire-imperialism

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/apr/18/britain-destroyed-records-colonial-crimes

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/apr/18/sins-colonialists-concealed-secret-archive

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/gallery/2012/apr/18/colonial-archives-kenya-malaya-aden

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/21/mau-mau-torture-kenyans-compensation

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-12997138 - 7 April 2011

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/05/kenyans-sue-uk-colonial-human-rights-abuses

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/apr/14/torture-mau-mau-camps-kenya

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/07/kenyans-mau-mau-compensation-case

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2011/apr/07/mau-mau-kenyans-compensation-case-video

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/audio/2009/may/11/kenya

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2006/oct/13/kenya.foreignpolicy

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/oct/06/kenya.topstories3 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/oct/05/politics.kenya

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Let's end the myths of Britain's imperial past        G        2011

David Cameron

would have us look back

to the days of the British empire with pride.

But there is little in the brutal oppression and naked greed

with which it was built that deserves our respect

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/oct/19/
end-myths-britains-imperial-past