Kenya: ‘I presumed that we British were the good guys and we were trying to beat the bad guys. But then later I discovered that when we came to our own to struggle here, that wasn’t quite true.’ A Very British Way of Torture, man, Channel 4 2022
‘All of us were sucked into the vortex of violence where we really started to do indescribable things to each other.’ ibid.
‘The Mau Mau uprising is a freedom movement that takes place in Kenya in the 1950s.’ ibid. woman
‘But sides commit violent atrocities.’ ibid. man
For the first time, the release of documents a very much fuller account as to what had been done and why. ibid.
They are investigating how the British atrocities were institutionalised, and they were known from the top in London. ibid.
In 1952 the British colony in Kenya was thrown into crisis by a gang of freedom fighters called Mau Mau. They vowed to free Kenya from colonialism. Secret History s7e4: Mau Mau, Channel 4 1999
To the British the uprising was such an attack on colonialism that it justified any response, and that response when it came would be brutal and shocking. ibid.