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Oct 18 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
They killed General Chui wa Mararo, took his body to Kamūirū in Ndia, forced the women who raised him to collect firewood to "roast their ram", and burnt him in front of his community.
Grief was met with violence: whips, butts, rungus.
Then forced to mix his ashes with the soil.
Multiply this a thousand fold between 1952 and 1960 across the region. (The British sent squads of torturers to Tanganyika to "screen" Kikuyu workers—it was so bad, that the Tanganyikan colonisers were horrified.)
