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June 7, 2013

Britain to Pay Out $22 Million To Veterans of Kenya's Mau Mau Movement 
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The British government has agreed to pay out a total of $22 million to a
group of more than 5,000 veterans of Kenya’s Mau Mau resistance
movement. More than 100,000 Kenyans are believed to have been killed by
British colonial forces between 1952 and 1960. British Foreign Secretary
William Hague announced the deal.

William Hague: "The British government recognizes that Kenyans were
subjected to torture and other forms of ill treatment at the hands of
the colonial administration. The British government sincerely regrets
that these abuses took place and that they marred Kenya's progress
towards independence. Torture and ill treatment are abhorrent violations
of human dignity, which we unreservedly condemn."

Gitu Wa Kahengeri, Mau Mau War Veterans Association: "Enough, it can't
be enough. We were detained for 10 years. I was detained for seven years
with my father, who raised me. So the issue of 300,000 shillings, is far
from the amount that I should have been paid or my father or anyone else
who was there during the fight."

 

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