How did they get away with it?
Bernard Porter: Britain’s Atrocities in Kenya, 3 March 2005
Histories of the Hanged: Britain’s Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire
by David Anderson.
Weidenfeld, 406 pp., £20, January 2005,0 297 84719 8 Show More
by David Anderson.
Weidenfeld, 406 pp., £20, January 2005,
Britain’s Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya
by Caroline Elkins.
Cape, 475 pp., £20, January 2005,9780224073639 Show More
by Caroline Elkins.
Cape, 475 pp., £20, January 2005,
“... figure, in David Anderson’s view, is ‘likely to have been more than 20,000’. In addition, Caroline Elkins claims, up to 100,000 died in the detention camps. It is the scale of the British atrocities in Kenya that is the most startling revelation of these books. We always knew about the Mau Mau atrocities, of course: assiduously retailed to the ... ”
