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Mau Mau Uprising: Mount Kenya
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Nor did it matter that the Mau Mau did not win. For the critical aspect was that they changed colonial thinking. The threat that they posed made Britain think long and hard about the financial and political costs of Kenya as a colony.
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Mau Mau militants did commit serious human rights violations. More than 1,800 Kenyan civilians are known to have been murdered by Mau Mau, and hundreds more disappeared, their bodies never found.[23] Victims were often hacked to death with machetes.
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Last Mau Mau leader Dedan Kimathi was captured by Kikuyu pseudo-gang police in October 21 1956 in Nyeri with 13 remaining guerillas. British army units left the rest for the Kenyan security forces.
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In addition to Kenyan civilians, 32 British civilians were killed by Mau Mau militants. Perhaps the most famous British civilian victim was Michael Ruck, aged just six, who was killed along with his parents. Michael was found hacked to death in his bedroom, and "newspapers in Kenya and abroad published graphic murder details and postmortem photos, including images of young Michael with bloodied teddy bears and trains strewn on his bedroom floor."[24]
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By now, word of Mau Mau oath-taking ceremonies had reached the ears of the settlers. Although these were later described by a white former official in Kenya as the equivalent of taking a Boy Scout oath, the fact that they involved certain things sacred to Kikuyu culture - for instance, goat meat and blood - appalled the white population, and wildly inaccurate stories spread.
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BBC interview with Professor David Anderson, Director of the African Studies Centre, focusing on legal action taken against the British government to secure compensation for a dozen Kenyans allegedly tortured during the Mau Mau uprising. Date: 12 October 2006.
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