Mau Mau – Foreign Correspondent Margot Kiser

A Gift for Kenya on its 50th – UK reaches settlement with Mau Mau-era torture victims

June 7, 2013February 21, 2016Margot Kiser0

Kenya received a birthday present yesterday – the long awaited settlement between the UK to 5,200 claimants allegedly tortured at the hands of the British colonial administration during Kenya’s eight-year struggle for Independence, aka the Mau Mau Emergency. Fifty years after Kenya gained its independence, Foreign Secretary William Hague announced that Her Majesty’s government had reached a full and final settlement with […]

Newsweek magazine – British High Court rules on Mau Mau torture case

October 6, 2012December 22, 2019Margot Kiser0

NAIROBI – Under the searing midday sun octogenarian veterans of the Kenya’s Mau Mau Emergency danced and whooped on hearing news Friday the British High Court that the three elderly Kenyanscould pursue their case against the Foreign Commonwealth Office (FCO) for the systemic torture they say they suffered at the hands of colonial administrators during […]

Newsweek Magazine — See You in Court : Tales of Torture in Mau Mau-Era Detention Centers –

October 3, 2012December 22, 2019Margot Kiser2

We Were Tortured in Kenya’s Mau Mau-Era Detention Centers Oct 8, 2012 1:00 AM EDT Waiting for justice more than 50 years—and counting, Margot Kiser reports from Kenya. The first thing Wambugu Wa Nyingi wants his visitors to see—even before he shows them the torture scars from his years in colonial-era Kenya’s detention centers—is the […]

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A Gift for Kenya on its 50th – UK reaches settlement with Mau Mau-era torture victims

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