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Mau Mau Uprising: Actions
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Not surprisingly, the British actions only drove more into the Mau Mau fold. Under the banner of a state of emergency, the colonial administration imprisoned innocents and punished entire villages when terrified residents refused to testify against their neighbors. Fearful settlers fired their Kikuyu laborers and ejected squatting farmers. And the administration closed Kikuyu schools, leaving more newly idle and angry Kikuyu with nothing to do but join the rebels.
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British lawyers representing former Mau Mau fighters claim that they were tortured by the colonial authorities and are therefore entitled to millions of pounds in compensation. They plan to launch a High Court action to demand reparations.
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Following those meetings, the Justice Minister called on the British Government to compensate the Mau Mau and to apologise to them. He referred to the work of Leigh Day & Co, with the Japanese Prisoners of War as a precedent for these actions. The Vice President followed this up by calling on the British Government to, at least, apologise.
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