Why not quit wasting your (and our) time bitching about what somebody else hasn't done...get off your lazy a@@, and go find those things yourself. Or...you just sit there and complain about things that make you look ignorant.

Not according to the judge.

The British settler and Colonial regime in Kenya was, even before the Mau Mau insurgency began, probably the “most openly racist one in the British Empire”, with the settlers violent prejudice attended by an uncompromising determination to retain their grip on power, and fears that as a tiny minority, they could be overrun by the majority Kenyans. British settler representatives were so keen on aggressive action that George Erskine referred to them as "the White Mau Mau".

Mr Nzili was stripped, chained, and castrated, while Mr Nyingi in an incident in 1959 was severely beaten unconscious and still bears marks from leg manacles, whipping and caning. 11 men were clubbed to death during that incident. He was also arrested in 1952 and detained for about nine years. Mrs Mara was allegedly sexually abused in detention camps during the rebellion. In her testimony, she described being whipped with sticks and sexually violated with a glass bottle containing hot water after she gave food to Mau Mau fighters at a detention camp.

Statute Of Limitations
London's High Court ruled that despite the time elapsed, the legal claims relating to the 1950s Mau Mau uprising can proceed. There is a provision under the “Limitation Act 1980” giving the courts discretion to extend this limitation period in certain circumstances. But where the court is minded to grant a long extension such as this it should take “meticulous care” in giving reasons for doing so.

And what about all the innocent British civilians killed by the Irish? The English and Irish have been fighting on and off since the 5th Century (Saint Patrick was born in the English county of Cumbria and was captured and sold into slavery by Irish raiders). So, how far back should the compensation go?

British Colonial View

The contemporary, colonial view saw Mau Mau as a savage, violent, and depraved tribal cult, an expression of unrestrained emotion rather than reason. Mau Mau was "perverted tribalism" that sought to take the Kikuyu people back to "the bad old days" before British rule.
The British Colonialists also used psychological warfare, divide and rule tactics, together with propaganda in crashing the Mau Mau fighters. Mau Mau were isolated from the Kikuyu, using detention and torture camps where they held kangaroo courts to point out Mau Mau spies and sympathizers.

Kenyan View
--Kenyans view Mau Mau as Kenyan freedom fighters who were fighting for their stolen land, freedom, and human rights. They were also an important component of African nationalism in Kenya. The revolt was mostly limited to the Kikuyu people was, in part, because they were the hardest hit by British colonialism and its effects. The rise of the Mau Mau movement was "without doubt, one of the most important events in recent African history.”
Mau Mau were Kenyan nationalists whose response was in retaliation to the unfairness and oppression of the British Colonial administration. The British on the other hand painted the Mau Mau as terrorists and barbaric rebels.

--Violent, savage, and barbaric techniques were initiated by the British colonial authorities to punish and break Mau Mau's support including the internment of tens of thousands of the city's suspected Mau Mau members and sympathisers. Many were detained and tortured with crude weapons, women raped, and many men and women were killed. At Detention camps, camp authorities preferred method of capital punishment was public hanging. Evelyn Baring ordered punitive communal labor, collective fines and other collective punishments, and further confiscation of land and property. By early 1954, tens of thousands of livestock had been forcibly taken from Kenyans, and were never returned, neither were they compensated for their losses.

--European missionaries played their part by visiting camps to evangelize and encourage compliance with the colonial authorities, providing intelligence, and sometimes even assisting in interrogation

--Sanitation in the camps was often appalling, and epidemics of diseases like typhoid swept through them. Official medical reports detailing the shortcomings of the camps and their recommendations were ignored, and the conditions being endured by detainees were lied about and denied.

--Between June 1953 and October 1955, the British Air force (RAF) did 900 sorties over the Aberdares and the forests around Mount Kenya where most Mau Mau fighters were based dropping nearly 6 million bombs killing thousands of Kenyans.

--It’s estimated that between 150,000 - 300,000 Kenyans were killed, either by torture, execution, being roasted alive, deprivation of medical services, disease, and murder by the British Colonial soldiers, settlers, and officials.

--British settlers after arriving in Kenya in 1902 as part of Governor Sir Charles Elliot's plan to have a settler economy pay for the recently completed Kenya - Uganda Railway, stole about 7,000,000 acres (28,000 km²; 11,000 sq mi) land from Kenyans. Most of the land was located in the especially fertile hilly regions of Central and Rift Valley. The British later changed the names of the areas to “White Highlands” to be exclusive European farmland. Kenyans received zero compensation for their stolen lands.

-- With an increasing population, Kenyans were very bitter about losing their land and being squeezed into crowded ethnic reserve settlements. The Giriama tribe from the coastal region was the treatment very badly. They were moved back and forth so as to secure for the Crown areas which could be granted to Europeans.

The Kikuyu, who are the most populous tribe in Kenya, were one of the most affected by the colonial government's land expropriation and European settlement. By 1933, they had had over 109.5 square miles (284 km²) of their potentially highly valuable land in Kiambu, Nyeri, and Muranga districts of Central Province stolen from them.

The Masai and Nandi were the biggest losers in terms of lost acreage. The Kikuyu did mount a legal challenge to the expropriation of their land, but a Kenya High Court decision of 1921 cemented its legality.

In Nyanza 1,029,422 Africans were restricted to 7,114 square miles (18,430 km²), while granting 16,700 square miles (43,000 km²) to 17,000 Europeans.

In Central province 1,250,000 Kikuyu were restricted to 2,000 square miles (5,200 km²), while 30,000 British settlers owned 12,000 square miles (31,000 km²).

This was actually kenyan land forcibly stolen from them by the British.

Kenyan View
The British settler and Colonial regime in Kenya was, even before the Mau Mau insurgency began, probably the “most openly racist one in the British Empire”, with the settlers violent prejudice attended by an uncompromising determination to retain their grip on power, and fears that as a tiny minority, they could be overrun by the majority Kenyans. British settler representatives were so keen on aggressive action that George Erskine referred to them as "the White Mau Mau".
--Kenyans view Mau Mau as Kenyan freedom fighters who were fighting for their stolen land, freedom, and human rights. They were also an important component of African nationalism in Kenya. The revolt was mostly limited to the Kikuyu people was, in part, because they were the hardest hit by British colonialism and its effects. The rise of the Mau Mau movement was "without doubt, one of the most important events in recent African history.”
Mau Mau were Kenyan nationalists whose response was in retaliation to the unfairness and oppression of the British Colonial administration. The British on the other hand painted the Mau Mau as terrorists and barbaric rebels.

--Violent, savage, and barbaric techniques were initiated by the British colonial authorities to punish and break Mau Mau's support including the internment of tens of thousands of the city's suspected Mau Mau members and sympathisers. Many were detained and tortured with crude weapons, women raped, and many men and women were killed. At Detention camps, camp authorities preferred method of capital punishment was public hanging. Evelyn Baring ordered punitive communal labor, collective fines and other collective punishments, and further confiscation of land and property. By early 1954, tens of thousands of livestock had been forcibly taken from Kenyans, and were never returned, neither were they compensated for their losses.

--European missionaries played their part by visiting camps to evangelize and encourage compliance with the colonial authorities, providing intelligence, and sometimes even assisting in interrogation

--Sanitation in the camps was often appalling, and epidemics of diseases like typhoid swept through them. Official medical reports detailing the shortcomings of the camps and their recommendations were ignored, and the conditions being endured by detainees were lied about and denied.

--Between June 1953 and October 1955, the British Air force (RAF) did 900 sorties over the Aberdares and the forests around Mount Kenya where most Mau Mau fighters were based dropping nearly 6 million bombs killing thousands of Kenyans.

--It’s estimated that between 150,000 - 300,000 Kenyans were killed, either by torture, execution, being roasted alive, deprivation of medical services, disease, and murder by the British Colonial soldiers, settlers, and officials.

--British settlers after arriving in Kenya in 1902 as part of Governor Sir Charles Elliot's plan to have a settler economy pay for the recently completed Kenya - Uganda Railway, stole about 7,000,000 acres (28,000 km²; 11,000 sq mi) land from Kenyans. Most of the land was located in the especially fertile hilly regions of Central and Rift Valley. The British later changed the names of the areas to “White Highlands” to be exclusive European farmland. Kenyans received zero compensation for their stolen lands.

-- With an increasing population, Kenyans were very bitter about losing their land and being squeezed into crowded ethnic reserve settlements. The Giriama tribe from the coastal region was the treatment very badly. They were moved back and forth so as to secure for the Crown areas which could be granted to Europeans.

--British settlers after arriving in Kenya in 1902 as part of Governor Sir Charles Elliot's plan to have a settler economy pay for the recently completed Kenya - Uganda Railway, stole about 7,000,000 acres (28,000 km²; 11,000 sq mi) land from Kenyans. Most of the land was located in the especially fertile hilly regions of Central and Rift Valley. The British later changed the names of the areas to “White Highlands” to be exclusive European farmland. Kenyans received zero compensation for their stolen lands.

-- With an increasing population, Kenyans were very bitter about losing their land and being squeezed into crowded ethnic reserve settlements. The Giriama tribe from the coastal region was the treatment very badly. They were moved back and forth so as to secure for the Crown areas which could be granted to Europeans.

The Kikuyu, who are the most populous tribe in Kenya, were one of the most affected by the colonial government's land expropriation and European settlement. By 1933, they had had over 109.5 square miles (284 km²) of their potentially highly valuable land in Kiambu, Nyeri, and Muranga districts of Central Province stolen from them.

The Masai and Nandi were the biggest losers in terms of lost acreage. The Kikuyu did mount a legal challenge to the expropriation of their land, but a Kenya High Court decision of 1921 cemented its legality.

In Nyanza 1,029,422 Africans were restricted to 7,114 square miles (18,430 km²), while granting 16,700 square miles (43,000 km²) to 17,000 Europeans.

In Central province 1,250,000 Kikuyu were restricted to 2,000 square miles (5,200 km²), while 30,000 British settlers owned 12,000 square miles (31,000 km²).

Seriously? Besides, Jamaica didn't start out as black they just breeded so much that all these islands are black. If anyone should get reparation from this it should be the original natives whose islands were ruined by the Europeans coming and bringing black slaves who now have taken them all over and made a cesspool out of them. And if you're going to talk like this, where does it all end? That's why this whole thing is stupid. And the stupid English lawyer (lawyers are blood suckers) with that big cheesy smile on his face, seeing dollar signs and fame while helping to put his country in the same financial ruin as the rest of Europe!

no kenyan asked the greedy brits to come there in the first place.the rail was built to facilitate theft to the sea port of mombasa,without it would have been hard to steal.its like a father abusing his daughter,while young,then say he took her to school n bought her sweets.

then go back to africa.

MAUMAU FROM UK

You know many would regard it as ironical that you are so critical of the UK and yet live and benefit from the opportunities provided to you by the UK, in fact I’d guess that the main reason you reside in the UK and not Kenya is because you enjoy a higher standard of living in the UK then you’d ever have living in Kenya. Of course personally I have no issue with that, what I find really funny is that you (and people like you) who claim the English were so bad, outright refuse to admit that one of the main reasons why the English were able to take over places like Kenya in the first place was because we had help from the natives. Finally since your so convinced that the English are the bad guys here then I’d have to add that it was the native Kenyans own dam fault they were conquered, maybe if you had spent a little time developing your technology then when the Europeans showed up you’d have had the strength to resist them as opposed to failing, hmm?

Statute Of Limitations
London's High Court ruled that despite the time elapsed, the legal claims relating to the 1950s Mau Mau uprising can proceed. There is a provision under the “Limitation Act 1980” giving the courts discretion to extend this limitation period in certain circumstances. But where the court is minded to grant a long extension such as this it should take “meticulous care” in giving reasons for doing so.

Obama's grand dad was never a maumau,ur right,they were kikuyus n not luos.people try to bring obama's dad in the picture to glorify. my grandad n family dont need it.we r proud of what they did for us,kicking out land grabbers n fake tourists.

And Why do you live in the country that tortured and killed your grandfather and not in Africa?

u walk in american streets n u find the same,dead bodies,killed by mob,police.u walk in afghanistan,u find dead innocent people killed by american drones.

No you walk in American cities and you see all the gun fights and dead bodies courtesy of the descendants of the African slaves!

Liar. How many British folks go to Kenya and never go back home?

How many Italians have made Malindi (Kenya) their home? Europe sucks!

How many Portugueese are fleeing Europe for Angola and mozambique?How many spanish are fleeing Europe for Africa?

How many South African White who initially fled to Europe After Mandela took power are now slowly trooping back to Africa.?

The entire continent looked like Downtown Disney while the Europeans were there, yep.

And the ones in the states still haven't paid for their free transportation to the land of the free!

What are you on, dude?

Here. I'll pay for you to leave right now.

If we had shipped you back way back when,B,we'd be living in a self sustaining utopia.H-I'll split the cost w you

And to add to that, then, All the bleedin' Africans who are now living and multiplying in England, have to go back to Africa. Even the ones who came out of their mothers' womb while she was there.

British muderers need to pay. Many killers are enjoying retirement in Britain while they actually belong to jail. Its amazing the level of denial from British folks. British are the biggest scumbags in the world.

Falamangaa

“British are the biggest scumbags in the world.”

Really? Can you prove that? What evidence have you got for it? I bet it’s not a global pole huh, after all I’d bet that if you was to ask the peoples of the world who they think the biggest scum bags of the world are then Americans would be number one with a bullet, of which it’s nice to see you acting the part falamangaa lol

Your answer just shows you never stepped in history class or were sleeping. British attrocities are very well documented by you British folks yourselves. Just wait and see how many lawsuits will come your way after this Kenyan historic judgement.

Three elderly Kenyans who were tortured by British colonial authorities during the Mau Mau uprising of the 1950s have been authorized by the British High Court to proceed with their case against the UK government. The three victims, Wambugu Wa Nyingi 84, Paulo Muoka Nzili 85 and Jane Muthoni Mara 73, won the ruling this morning and can now pursue the government for compensation. A fourth claimant, Ndiku Mutwiwa Mutua, died after the case began.
Lawyers for the three hailed it as a "historic judgement.” While the British government accepts that UK forces tortured detainees it denies liability and said it will appeal against the decision. Gitu Wa Kahengeri, spokesman of the Mau Mau War Veterans Association, was in London for the hearing, and was pleased by decision. The Kenya Human Rights Commission heralded the Friday court decision as “a momentous victory,” Martyn Day, a British lawyer and senior partner at the London law firm representing the Kenyan plaintiffs, called it “a historic judgment that will reverberate around the world.”
The ruling has potentially “significant and far reaching legal implications especially in former British territories”. An estimated 2,000 other Kenyans the survivors of more than 70,000 Mau Mau suspects who were imprisoned during the seven year insurgency in the 1950s are now expected to come forward to sue the British government,” and similar claims are expected from other parts of the world which were affected by conflict during the British retreat from empire.

The court will consider evidence about events in detention camps during the 1950s. Mr Nzili is alleged to have been stripped, chained, and castrated, while Mr Nyingi in an incident in 1959 was severely beaten unconscious and still bears marks from leg manacles, whipping and caning. 11 men were clubbed to death during that incident. He was also arrested in 1952 and detained for about nine years. Mrs Mara was allegedly sexually abused in detention camps during the rebellion. In her testimony, she described being whipped with sticks and sexually violated with a glass bottle containing hot water after she gave food to Mau Mau fighters at a detention camp.

The British settler and Colonial regime in Kenya was, even before the Mau Mau insurgency began, probably the “most openly racist one in the British Empire”, with the settlers violent prejudice attended by an uncompromising determination to retain their grip on power, and fears that as a tiny minority, they could be overrun by the majority Kenyans. British settler representatives were so keen on aggressive action that George Erskine referred to them as "the White Mau Mau".

Statute Of Limitations
London's High Court ruled that despite the time elapsed, the legal claims relating to the 1950s Mau Mau uprising can proceed. There is a provision under the “Limitation Act 1980” giving the courts discretion to extend this limitation period in certain circumstances. But where the court is minded to grant a long extension such as this it should take “meticulous care” in giving reasons for doing so.

The British government had initially argued that all liabilities for the torture by colonial authorities were transferred to the Kenyan Republic upon independence in 1963 and that it could not be held liable now. But last year, the High Court ruled that claimants - Paulo Muoka Nzili, Wambuga Wa Nyingi and Jane Muthoni Mara had "arguable cases in law".
After the 2011 ruling, the case went back to the High Court in July because the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office said the actions had been brought outside the legal time limit. This has now been discounted.

Evidence
There remains no outstanding issue as to the factof those claimants’ injuries and the manner of their infliction, although legal responsibilityon the part of the government in respect of alleged torts of assault and battery and negligence remains hotly contested. That will be decided at the main trial of this action, if the Foreign Office does not succeed in their appeal against this finding that the claims are not statute barred.
Britain had earlier argued that the case had become the responsibility of Kenya after its independence, an argument that a British court rejected last year, saying the three elderly Kenyans had a valid case.
The judge found that the difficulties advanced by the defendant on these matters were “more illusory than real.”

There was in his view ” an amply sufficient” documentary base to test both liability and the excessive use of force in the camps throughout the period of the emergency and what London’s reaction to that knowledge was for the purpose of resolving this aspect of the pleaded case.
Another consideration courts may take into account when exercising their discretion in lifting the limitation bar is the conduct of the defendant
In this case the judge considered that whatever the original suspicions of the claimants’ advisers may have been about concealing or removal of compromising evidence, there was nothing in the FCO’s management of the documentation that would weigh in the balance against them on this particular question. A recently released cache of British colonial documents document a long list of abuses including Kenyan detainees being summarily executed, or roasted alive.
The defendant Foreign Office argued that the majority of those on the defendant’s side who might have given material oral evidence on “policy making at the highest level” are now dead and that, therefore, in so far as the claimants seek to base their claims upon inferences from documents, the defendant would no longer be able to meet that case with the oral evidence of those who created or received such documents.

Mau Mau Uprising
The Mau Mau Uprising was a military conflict that took place in Kenya between 1952 and 1960. It involved a Central Kenya Kikuyu dominated anti-colonial group called Mau Mau and elements of the British Colonial Army, auxiliaries and anti-Mau Mau Kikuyu.
The movement was violently repressed by the British Colonial forces with widespread killings, rape, and torture. Hundreds of thousands of Kenyans, many unconnected to the Mau Mau movement, were held in detention camps, detained, tortured, killed and displaced as a result of British campaign to stop the movement. The capture of rebel leader Dedan Kimathi on 21 October 1956 signaled the ultimate defeat of the Mau Mau uprising, and essentially ended the British military campaign.
The Mau Mau was banned by the British authorities in the 1950s. The Colonial Kenyan Government later declared a state of emergency in 1952 after a Mau Mau campaign of assassination and sabotage.

The British used killings, torture, and beatings to suppress the Mau Mau. Detention camps were also set up where inmates suffered deprivation and mistreatment. Mau
Mau fighters also meted out their own punishment to pro British Kenyans, raiding loyalist villages and killing those supporting the British.

The Mau Mau group remained controversial in Kenya for a longtime after independence especially among the Kikuyu, between those who joined the insurgency and "loyalists or traitors" who sided with the British.
Many former Mau Mau fighters endured a lifetime of poverty after coming out of their forest hide-outs, never having won the land they fought for as it was given mostly to their loyalist foes.
The Mau Mau Movement was illegal in Kenya until 2003, when a legal ban on the movement was by Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki.

British Colonial View
The contemporary, colonial view saw Mau Mau as a savage, violent, and depraved tribal cult, an expression of unrestrained emotion rather than reason. Mau Mau was "perverted tribalism" that sought to take the Kikuyu people back to "the bad old days" before British rule.
The British Colonialists also used psychological warfare, divide and rule tactics, together with propaganda in crashing the Mau Mau fighters. Mau Mau were isolated from the Kikuyu, using detention and torture camps where they held kangaroo courts to point out Mau Mau spies and sympathizers.

Kenyan View
--Kenyans view Mau Mau as Kenyan freedom fighters who were fighting for their stolen land, freedom, and human rights. They were also an important component of African nationalism in Kenya. The revolt was mostly limited to the Kikuyu people was, in part, because they were the hardest hit by British colonialism and its effects. The rise of the Mau Mau movement was "without doubt, one of the most important events in recent African history.”
Mau Mau were Kenyan nationalists whose response was in retaliation to the unfairness and oppression of the British Colonial administration. The British on the other hand painted the Mau Mau as terrorists and barbaric rebels.

--Violent, savage, and barbaric techniques were initiated by the British colonial authorities to punish and break Mau Mau's support including the internment of tens of thousands of the city's suspected Mau Mau members and sympathisers. Many were detained and tortured with crude weapons, women raped, and many men and women were killed. At Detention camps, camp authorities preferred method of capital punishment was public hanging. Evelyn Baring ordered punitive communal labor, collective fines and other collective punishments, and further confiscation of land and property. By early 1954, tens of thousands of livestock had been forcibly taken from Kenyans, and were never returned, neither were they compensated for their losses.

--European missionaries played their part by visiting camps to evangelize and encourage compliance with the colonial authorities, providing intelligence, and sometimes even assisting in interrogation.
--Sanitation in the camps was often appalling, and epidemics of diseases like typhoid swept through them. Official medical reports detailing the shortcomings of the camps and their recommendations were ignored, and the conditions being endured by detainees were lied about and denied.

--Between June 1953 and October 1955, the British Air force (RAF) did 900 sorties over the Aberdares and the forests around Mount Kenya where most Mau Mau fighters were based dropping nearly 6 million bombs killing thousands of Kenyans.

--It’s estimated that between 150,000 - 300,000 Kenyans were killed, either by torture, execution, being roasted alive, deprivation of medical services, disease, and murder by the British Colonial soldiers, settlers, and officials.

--British settlers after arriving in Kenya in 1902 as part of Governor Sir Charles Elliot's plan to have a settler economy pay for the recently completed Kenya - Uganda Railway, stole about 7,000,000 acres (28,000 km²; 11,000 sq mi) land from Kenyans. Most of the land was located in the especially fertile hilly regions of Central and Rift Valley. The British later changed the names of the areas to “White Highlands” to be exclusive European farmland. Kenyans received zero compensation for their stolen lands.

-- With an increasing population, Kenyans were very bitter about losing their land and being squeezed into crowded ethnic reserve settlements. The Giriama tribe from the coastal region was the treatment very badly. They were moved back and forth so as to secure for the Crown areas which could be granted to Europeans.

The Kikuyu, who are the most populous tribe in Kenya, were one of the most affected by the colonial government's land expropriation and European settlement. By 1933, they had had over 109.5 square miles (284 km²) of their potentially highly valuable land in Kiambu, Nyeri, and Muranga districts of Central Province stolen from them.

The Masai and Nandi were the biggest losers in terms of lost acreage. The Kikuyu did mount a legal challenge to the expropriation of their land, but a Kenya High Court decision of 1921 cemented its legality.

In Nyanza 1,029,422 Africans were restricted to 7,114 square miles (18,430 km²), while granting 16,700 square miles (43,000 km²) to 17,000 Europeans.

In Central province 1,250,000 Kikuyu were restricted to 2,000 square miles (5,200 km²), while 30,000 British settlers owned 12,000 square miles (31,000 km²).

Forced Resettlement
The forced resettlement programme of Kiambu, Nyeri, Murang'a and Embu Districts in 1954 was aimed at cutting off Mau Mau's supply lines. Within eighteen months, 1,050,899 Kikuyu in the reserves were forced into 804 villages consisting of some 230,000 huts. The British Colonial Government termed them "protected villages", but infact hundreds of thousands of Kenyans mostly Kikuyu were corralled, often against their will, into settlements behind barbed wire fences and watch towers. The villages were surrounded by deep, spike bottomed trenches and barbed wire, and the villagers themselves were watched over by members of the Home Guard, often neighbours and relatives. In short, rewards or collective punishments such as curfews could be served much more readily after villagisation.

Forced Cheap Kenyan Labor
The British Colonial Government and White farmers wanted cheap labor. They forced Africans to work for them. Confiscating land from Africans also helped to create a pool of wage laborers.

The British later introduced measures that forced more Africans to submit to wage labour.
---The introduction of the Hut and Poll Taxes (1901 and 1910 respectively)
---The establishment of reserves for each ethnic group, serving to isolate each ethnic group and exacerbate overcrowding.
---The discouragement of African's growing cash crops.
---The Masters and Servants Ordinance (1906)
---The identification pass (ID) known as the kipande (1918) to control the movement of labour and to curb desertion.
---The exemption of wage labourers from forced labour and other compulsory, detested tasks such as conscription.

African Laborers Categories:
--- Squatter
--- Contract
--- Casual
By the end of WWI, squatters had become well established on European farms and plantations in Kenya, with Kikuyu squatters comprising the majority of agricultural workers on settler plantations.

The squatters were targeted from 1918 onwards by a series of Resident Native Laborers Ordinances which curtailed squatter rights and subordinated African farming to that of the settlers.

The Ordinance of 1939 finally eliminated squatters' remaining tenancy rights, and permitted settlers to demand 270 days' labor from any squatters on their land.

In the early 1920s, though, despite the presence of 100,000 squatters and tens of thousands more wage laborers, there was still not enough African labor available to satisfy the settlers' needs. The colonial government therefore tightened the measures to force more Kenyans to become low paid wage laborers on settler farms.
Wages were very low compared to the amount of work done by Kenyans.

Subordinating African farming to that of the Europeans
The success of the British settler economy would depend heavily on the availability of land, labor and capital, and so, over the next three decades, the colonial government and settlers consolidated their control over Kenyan land, and 'encouraged' Kenyans to become wage laborers.
Provision of medical services for Africans was almost none existent.
Kenyan employees were often appallingly treated by their European employers, and sometimes beaten to death by them. Kenyan workers were treated like children by the British settlers.
It was widely acknowledged that few settlers hesitated to flog their servants for petty offences.

Legal System Biased Against Kenyans
African workers were poorly served by colonial labor legislation and a prejudiced legal system. The vast majority of Kenyan employees' violations of labor legislation were settled with "rough justice" meted out by their employers. Most colonial magistrates appear to have been unconcerned by the illegal practice of settler administered flogging or torture.
During the 1920s, flogging was the magisterial punishment of choice for Kenyan convicts. The principle of punitive sanctions against workers was not removed from the Kenyan labor statutes until the 1950s

British Favoritism
Britain also assisted the settlers with rail and road networks, subsidies on freight charges, agricultural and veterinary services, and credit and loan facilities. African farming was neglected during the first two decades of European settlement.
The British refused to attend to the legitimate social and economic grievances of the Kenyans, including grievances that were a result of loss of their land and source of livelihood.

British Court Ruling
In his ruling today, Justice Richard McCombe said there was enough potential evidence in Britain’s imperial archives available to both prosecution and defense to permit legal action to move forward.
“The documentation is voluminous … the governments and military commanders seem to have been meticulous record keepers,” Justice McCombe said when reading the ruling aloud in court.
“I have reached the conclusion … that a fair trial on this part of the case does remain possible and that the evidence on both sides remains significantly cogent for the court to complete its task satisfactorily,” McCombe said.

The three elderly Kenyans are only asking for an official apology from the British government and compensation for injuries they suffered, which includes lifelong complications that followed their abuse. They hope the British government will at last do the honorable thing and resolve these claims. Many of the tortured Kenyans are still very much alive.

Falamangaa

Well now that was a long post and it didn’t bare much likeness to the pure hatred and xenophobia of your previous post (which is what I addressed) but thank you for your contributions, I must say that I do think the government apologise but they shouldn’t get compensation as the tax payers from the 1950s (who financed their torture) and mostly dead and thus they would just be punishing the decedents and as such people who had nothing to do with it (oh and ironically they’d be taking money from all the British/African people who are UK citizens and taxpayers too)which is also unjust, especially since it wasn’t just the British army that was engaged in atrocities during the conflict in question. Now if you are of the mind to say that the atrocities the British did were wrong but the atrocities the Mau Mau did were right then you really are a hypocrite.

Finally that was a lot of info you posted, you got any sources for it?

The British settler and Colonial regime in Kenya was, even before the Mau Mau insurgency began, probably the “most openly racist one in the British Empire”, with the settlers violent prejudice attended by an uncompromising determination to retain their grip on power, and fears that as a tiny minority, they could be overrun by the majority Kenyans. British settler representatives were so keen on aggressive action that George Erskine referred to them as "the White Mau Mau".

Mr Nzili is alleged to have been stripped, chained, and castrated, while Mr Nyingi in an incident in 1959 was severely beaten unconscious and still bears marks from leg manacles, whipping and caning. 11 men were clubbed to death during that incident. He was also arrested in 1952 and detained for about nine years. Mrs Mara was allegedly sexually abused in detention camps during the rebellion. In her testimony, she described being whipped with sticks and sexually violated with a glass bottle containing hot water after she gave food to Mau Mau fighters at a detention camp.

--Violent, savage, and barbaric techniques were initiated by the British colonial authorities to punish and break Mau Mau's support including the internment of tens of thousands of the city's suspected Mau Mau members and sympathisers. Many were detained and tortured with crude weapons, women raped, and many men and women were killed. At Detention camps, camp authorities preferred method of capital punishment was public hanging. Evelyn Baring ordered punitive communal labor, collective fines and other collective punishments, and further confiscation of land and property. By early 1954, tens of thousands of livestock had been forcibly taken from Kenyans, and were never returned, neither were they compensated for their losses.

--European missionaries played their part by visiting camps to evangelize and encourage compliance with the colonial authorities, providing intelligence, and sometimes even assisting in interrogation
--Between June 1953 and October 1955, the British Air force (RAF) did 900 sorties over the Aberdares and the forests around Mount Kenya where most Mau Mau fighters were based dropping nearly 6 million bombs killing thousands of Kenyans.

--It’s estimated that between 150,000 - 300,000 Kenyans were killed, either by torture, execution, being roasted alive, deprivation of medical services, disease, and murder by the British Colonial soldiers, settlers, and officials.

--British settlers after arriving in Kenya in 1902 as part of Governor Sir Charles Elliot's plan to have a settler economy pay for the recently completed Kenya - Uganda Railway, stole about 7,000,000 acres (28,000 km²; 11,000 sq mi) land from Kenyans. Most of the land was located in the especially fertile hilly regions of Central and Rift Valley. The British later changed the names of the areas to “White Highlands” to be exclusive European farmland. Kenyans received zero compensation for their stolen lands.

-- With an increasing population, Kenyans were very bitter about losing their land and being squeezed into crowded ethnic reserve settlements. The Giriama tribe from the coastal region was the treatment very badly. They were moved back and forth so as to secure for the Crown areas which could be granted to Europeans.

The Kikuyu, who are the most populous tribe in Kenya, were one of the most affected by the colonial government's land expropriation and European settlement. By 1933, they had had over 109.5 square miles (284 km²) of their potentially highly valuable land in Kiambu, Nyeri, and Muranga districts of Central Province stolen from them.

The Masai and Nandi were the biggest losers in terms of lost acreage. The Kikuyu did mount a legal challenge to the expropriation of their land, but a Kenya High Court decision of 1921 cemented its legality.

In Nyanza 1,029,422 Africans were restricted to 7,114 square miles (18,430 km²), while granting 16,700 square miles (43,000 km²) to 17,000 Europeans.

In Central province 1,250,000 Kikuyu were restricted to 2,000 square miles (5,200 km²), while 30,000 British settlers owned 12,000 square miles (31,000 km²).