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In the 1950s, Britain herded Kenya's entire Kikuyu population — nearly 1.5 million people — into concentration camps & subjected them to savage torture, rape & terror.
"There was 'forced sodomy with broken bottles and vermin and snakes and just horrific, horrific things'"—Caroline Elkins, one of the rare brave US academics. Her book Imperial Reckoning broke 50 yrs silence about Britain's Gulag archipelago in Kenya
npr.org/2013/06/09/189…
npr.org/2013/06/09/189…
"we have plenty of evidence that the systematized violence that happened in Kenya was honed and brought throughout the empire, from Palestine to Malaya to Kenya to Cyprus to Aden to Northern Ireland."
Old @TheWarNerd review of Elkins' excellent book begins: "One of the great mysteries of the 20th-c. was the way Britain got away with pillaging nearly every country on earth without suffering any retribution..."
exiledonline.com/book-review-an…
exiledonline.com/book-review-an…
"The difference between the British Empire and other fascist empires is not that these guys were nicer. Nobody who reads this book could continue to believe that... The difference is that the Brits were good at it, and had no conscience to trouble them"
