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  • Between 1952 and 1960, Britain fought a vicious war in Kenya against the anticolonial Mau Mau movement. It was an exceptionally bloody conflict, with atrocities committed on both sides.
    For decades, many of the worst abuses by British colonial forces were kept hidden.
    Piecing together survivor testimonies and expert analysis from British and Kenyan historians, this film tells a complete and detailed story for the first time of how Britain was involved in systemic torture - including accounts of murders, rapes and forced castrations.
    A Very British Way of Torture is a film by Ed McGown and produced by Rob Newman.
    Document archive is courtesy of the UK National Archives.
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  • @aljazeeraenglish
    @aljazeeraenglish  Рік тому +292

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    • @pplopde4437
      @pplopde4437 Рік тому +16

      At the the height of resistance to colonial rule in the 1950's at least 500k-1M kenyans, were tortured, killed, displaced or jailed in camps. After independence in 1963 Kenya introduced a new constitution with the help of THURGOOD MARSHALL(see "exporting american dreams" by Mary Dudziak),the first black US chief justice who was friends with Kenya's Nationalist leaders TOM MBOYA,JOMO KENYATTA and OGINGA ODINGA. The constitution protected racial minorities including white, asians/indians and arabs.

    • @ricfermi5886
      @ricfermi5886 Рік тому +5

      As long as we can comment uncensored, I'd love to watch more documentaries.

    • @afrikanheritage99
      @afrikanheritage99 Рік тому +2

      Hello, thanks for your inspiring and informative documentaries 👍 How can I reach you via email?

    • @semambonderea8206
      @semambonderea8206 Рік тому +5

      Give us more and also the hidden about the evil acts of these people

    • @semambonderea8206
      @semambonderea8206 Рік тому +4

      Big thanks 👍 we appreciate... Mostly when you covered criminality that was done in Libya onto the let Muammah Gaddaffi who wanted much of unity among Arab and African nations

  • @vickomen3697
    @vickomen3697 Рік тому +696

    The British had gulags, torture chambers, concentration camps and apartheid system. When you hear apartheid you think about SA but it was also very real in Kenya. I really hope more people and specifically Kenyans will be taught about these horrid times in their history. Also, I'm working collectively with a group of young Kenyans to document this. Happy Jamhuri Day Kenya.

    • @tatradak
      @tatradak Рік тому +10

      Maybe my English relation who was one of the few whites who were allowed to stay and keep their land should explain how it was so...

    • @vickomen3697
      @vickomen3697 Рік тому +48

      @@tatradak right now Kenya has these many ''Conservancies'': thousands of acres large where a few White ''conservationist'' families reside. You know why?

    • @hellenwanjiru7965
      @hellenwanjiru7965 Рік тому

      @@vickomen3697 Because independence was a hoax Kenyatta was a sell out,He worked hand in hand with British government.

    • @shellibelli4387
      @shellibelli4387 Рік тому +9

      That would make for an interesting documentary.

    • @kennethkinyanjuindungu871
      @kennethkinyanjuindungu871 Рік тому +8

      Would love to join your efforts

  • @gakii.muthuri
    @gakii.muthuri Рік тому +426

    My grandmother used to tell me how they(the women) would go to Mt Kenya forest and leave food at a certain place so that the maumau who was mostly their husbands and fathers would not starve.... I feel so emotional watching this coz it hits home. She passed on in December 2021 and May God keep resting her soul in peace🕊️

    • @Njeri_123
      @Njeri_123 Рік тому +13

      May her soul rest in eternal peace. 🙏

    • @joashwambua9988
      @joashwambua9988 Рік тому +3

      Oh

    • @oliviamonteque6407
      @oliviamonteque6407 Рік тому +2

      @@Njeri_123 really!

    • @jonathankaranja5857
      @jonathankaranja5857 Рік тому +1

      Sasa Gakii,,pia mimi nilisikia kutoka nyanya fulani eti walikuwa hata wanalazimishwa kula matoke mbichi.

    • @daisymumbi
      @daisymumbi Рік тому +3

      This is true my grand ma told me the same

  • @Mazillah
    @Mazillah 8 місяців тому +63

    As a South Sudanese who have read a lot about colonialism in books especially in Kenya I can sincerely confirm that the history is much shallow in books than how it it actually,This video need to be showed to every student doing history in school.Much much love Kenya.

    • @Thegreatestofalltime1998
      @Thegreatestofalltime1998 7 місяців тому +4

      Thank you 😊💕 very here is the upcoming Kenyan historian who is determined to change the perspectives of the new generation towards colonization and neuclonialism 🎉🎉

    • @abukaribrahim4484
      @abukaribrahim4484 Місяць тому +1

      Am Kenyan student and nothing was taught us about the atrocities of the colonisers. Nothing.

    • @richardsanjose3692
      @richardsanjose3692 Місяць тому

      Yeah you're right. It seems man's inhumanity to his fellow man is the same and never changes. It's just whoever has their foot on top of the other one and they don't see it as torture

    • @KarlaBedminister
      @KarlaBedminister 16 днів тому

      ​@@abukaribrahim4484It was deliberately removed so the generation who knew may not tell you and you not knowing your history will ignorantly make bad future choices to put your family in danger and then eventually they'll make the same mistakes over and over enabling recolonization in a more modern way.

  • @ashton1952
    @ashton1952 Рік тому +99

    The immense courage of those who finally stood up and said "no" to the abuse and dehumanizing, is a powerful message to anyone anywhere suffering similar things. It is almost like the eleven martyrs opened the door in the heavenly realm for their entire nation to be freed. Thank you for bringing us this history of Kenya 🙏

    • @pattyoconnell1953
      @pattyoconnell1953 Рік тому +3

      Amen

    • @mrb2643
      @mrb2643 8 місяців тому

      They are still doing this today under a different flag...called anti terrorism, invading and killing non white lands

    • @mirenka24
      @mirenka24 6 місяців тому +1

      And thats why world has to stand with Palestine🍉

    • @oliviajanzkordell4491
      @oliviajanzkordell4491 29 днів тому

      spare us the maudlin sop ... remember what the colonialists achieved in Kenya and the systems they established ! compare with what the situation is today .... some of the top class schools that they built are now only a shadow of themselves ... same with grubby Nairobi and other cities !

  • @michaelmwangi5052
    @michaelmwangi5052 Рік тому +599

    As someone from Mt Kenya where the rebellion began, I'm glad that my grandmother who was part of the struggle and all these freedom fighters got to outlive some of those who authorized these atrocities. We'll never forget. God bless Kenya🇰🇪

    • @misssexandsafari
      @misssexandsafari Рік тому +2

      Amen.

    • @thomaskristensen4679
      @thomaskristensen4679 Рік тому +1

      Reggie: All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? Xerxes: Brought peace?

    • @michaelmwangi5052
      @michaelmwangi5052 Рік тому +29

      @@thomaskristensen4679 Are you justifying what they did?

    • @David-og7di
      @David-og7di Рік тому +29

      @@michaelmwangi5052 I think he is white.

    • @patohunja7981
      @patohunja7981 Рік тому +8

      @@rxgames172 People from western nyanza and ukambani were hired by British colonists as soldiers and domestic workers

  • @rickjames21
    @rickjames21 Рік тому +453

    I am 37 years old and remember reading and learning about the Mau Mau movement back in primary school in Lusaka. Thank you so much for this documentary. I had no idea how bad it was for our African brothers and sisters.

    • @jean6872
      @jean6872 Рік тому +11

      I was a European white boy during the Mau Mau crisis and I recall being afraid of Africans.

    • @bendtnerimaerot3813
      @bendtnerimaerot3813 Рік тому +18

      And someone here still supporting England to win world cup

    • @yamomma6479
      @yamomma6479 Рік тому

      ​@@jean6872 why? Only Europeans have proven to be bloodthirsty tyrants..and aberrations of civil society

    • @jean6872
      @jean6872 Рік тому

      @@yamomma6479 Nobody believes that black Africans are incapable of murder even on a mass scale. We have newspapers and TV you know.

    • @XRTSDFA
      @XRTSDFA Рік тому +7

      @@jean6872 why?

  • @Outrageous_fault
    @Outrageous_fault Рік тому +43

    Gavaghan’s interview gave me chills. His body language shows he is lying. My grandfather was a mau mau oathist. He imprisoned in Manyani for over 7 years. His wives and children were also detained, beaten, property stolen and suffered. As a result my family is separated and divided. No one speaks about the generational trauma and effects that continues until today. There are lost generations. Our grandparents, our parents and ourselves. Broken families, alcoholism, psychological and emotional damage. I wish someone could make a documentary about this. I wish we could talk about this.

    • @rahabwanjiru8803
      @rahabwanjiru8803 8 місяців тому +3

      We are a product of this colonial trauma. Our grandparents and parents were damaged and wounded, never healed and here we are carrying the same wounds. I also hope someone can try to find out the effects of colonialism on families, psychological effects etc.

    • @kim1570
      @kim1570 6 місяців тому

      @@rahabwanjiru8803 Absolutely. This is one of the most important conversations we need to be having.

    • @casteretpollux
      @casteretpollux Місяць тому

      Sending hugs, comfort and tears for what you all have gone through and are going through. And deep thanks to all who have acted for human liberation.

  • @thatgirlg3719
    @thatgirlg3719 Рік тому +15

    Whenever you ask an elder wholived through this ,"what happened?/was happening?" You always watch their faces and emotions change drastically. The memories haunt them decades later

  • @NdondoMicheal
    @NdondoMicheal Рік тому +420

    It flips the script as to whom is uncivilized. That was a strong line.

    • @drewbranch7700
      @drewbranch7700 Рік тому +27

      Even when I was kid I used to scoff that “civilized “ notion about the British yet we were taught about their heinous crimes across the globe. The temerity of it;more like, the utter pretentiousness yet narcissism of the British.

    • @arawiri
      @arawiri Рік тому +4

      I reckon

    • @peterpan1435
      @peterpan1435 Рік тому

      @@drewbranch7700 The British had to endure torture by the Vikings, Romans, Normans.

    • @skalet66a
      @skalet66a Рік тому +16

      @@peterpan1435 The British Are the Normans (and to some extent, the Vikings as well)

    • @drewbranch7700
      @drewbranch7700 Рік тому +23

      @@peterpan1435Fascinating,is this your attempt to manufacture an excuse,talk about a futile premise on your end.🤔

  • @omolaniayanshola4278
    @omolaniayanshola4278 Рік тому +28

    I'm not even Kenyan but as an African this really hit home as though my country Nigeria where once British colonial country and I can't help but to cry for the tortured and suffering our four fathers had gone through for us to live i am so proud of thier resilience even though it cost many thier lifes may the deaths rest in eternity and May the spirit of our ancestors never leaf us god bless Africa

  • @human8454
    @human8454 Рік тому +190

    As an indian i can feel their pain.we support Kenya.😭

    • @thomaskristensen4679
      @thomaskristensen4679 Рік тому +4

      Every Hindu should wake up every day and thank the gods that the British freed India from Muslim rule.

    • @ayodejiolowokere1076
      @ayodejiolowokere1076 Рік тому +25

      @@thomaskristensen4679 rubbish. The Mughal Empire had been supplanted by the Hindu Marathas well before the British invasion.

    • @badlav120
      @badlav120 Рік тому +14

      @@thomaskristensen4679 than , what should we do to those who divided my country on the basis of religion ? Should we punish them or forgive them ? So called Britishers

    • @hasanaliqadri1508
      @hasanaliqadri1508 Рік тому

      @@thomaskristensen4679 and thanks the British for looting trillions of wealth and millions of death by creating artificial drought and dividing India on religious lines and still the British glorious loot and human rights violation going on around the world.

    • @behroozajang1296
      @behroozajang1296 Рік тому +5

      But some Indian were hired and foughts in behalf of british army in Africa and else where .

  • @grase09
    @grase09 Рік тому +289

    My grandmother was so traumatized by her experience in the labor camps that she would break down at any instance of prompting memories of that dark period. I will never forget the sacrifice made by our forefathers for the sake of this country. I never thought it was this bad... not at all.

    • @sumayyahadetunmbi4347
      @sumayyahadetunmbi4347 Рік тому +11

      Oh this is terrible, I hope your grandma is doing okay. Wishing her the best of health

    • @ben33584
      @ben33584 Рік тому

      Bad? It was far worse than what they show u here...some footage won't be shown for fear of sparking a revolution..

    • @africaisking7817
      @africaisking7817 Рік тому

      White People smh.

    • @jonathankaranja5857
      @jonathankaranja5857 Рік тому +1

      Then there was this story about the Hola massacre (the 11 detainees), remember that story?

    • @thetoughlove
      @thetoughlove 7 місяців тому +2

      Your grandmother is a legend to be celebrated by all Kenyans..when we speak about mashujaa day I know it her and other who went through the traumatic ordeal that I am celebrating...show her love on my behalf

  • @sultanthu
    @sultanthu Рік тому +201

    This should be constantly played in all high schools in Kenya to make sure each generation understands and sees what 'colinialism' really meant. reading is one thing, seeing is another. Amazing work al Jazeera !

    • @claudestuder4199
      @claudestuder4199 Рік тому +17

      No! This should be shown in schools all over the world!

    • @johnnykilonzo2103
      @johnnykilonzo2103 Рік тому +2

      Even Britains were once colonised by the Romans and they were enslaved.
      We should stop victimizing ourselves

    • @sycamorevendor4959
      @sycamorevendor4959 Рік тому +3

      The present governments wouldn't let it happen. They wouldn't want the people know what they lost and continue losing. The present African governments are just a little less as exploitative as the colonizer. The government that took power from the colonizers set the pace that subsequent governments accelerated. Politicians thrive on the ignorance of the populace and they would like to sustain it that way.

    • @GP-wt8eo
      @GP-wt8eo Рік тому +10

      @@johnnykilonzo2103 just stop.

    • @johnnykilonzo2103
      @johnnykilonzo2103 Рік тому +3

      @@GP-wt8eo even British schools are taught the cruelty and slavery they were forced by the Romans, Vikings and French for over 500 years.
      Every one was colonised, the world is cruel.

  • @kausalyabahadur7667
    @kausalyabahadur7667 Рік тому +23

    Thank God for the freedom fighters. I'm a descendant of Indian indentured laborers from Guyana. I'm now learning my own history and will devote the rest of my life making sure that colonial atrocities all the the world do not get forgotten. How much heartache can one endure. We owe it to our ancestors to tell the story.

    • @frankyyaggabot6222
      @frankyyaggabot6222 4 місяці тому

      So you are a colonist? How many indigenous leaders of Guayna have there been - not many (zero actually) - ethnic Chinese, Indians, Africans - none of which is a native to Guyana and yet you hold political power over the natives. Hypocrisy much?

  • @michaelodonnell824
    @michaelodonnell824 Рік тому +10

    Just in case anyone is under the impression that British Imperial atrocities were "ancient history", please let us remember that EVERYTHING related in this video happened while Elizabeth II was "Gloriously Reigning" and that the British Governments and Royals were fully aware and APPROVING of what happened.
    After the British were compelled to leave India, Kenya was the new "Jewel" in the Empire.
    Moreover, both Labour and the Conservatives were in Power while these atrocities were going on and BOTH approved.

  • @garamabe6891
    @garamabe6891 Рік тому +78

    My father said that the bombs were exploding so loudly that he was still traumatized early this year.
    He passed away in August this year without ever getting justice.

    • @dlaru1376
      @dlaru1376 Рік тому +1

      May you kin find peace now after years of trauma. May They be rested in eternity

  • @riccardo9383
    @riccardo9383 Рік тому +324

    This documentary should be shown in every school around the world, and particularly in the UK.

    • @steveerossa
      @steveerossa Рік тому +1

      For what. To make them feel evil? To set them up for reparations demand? Power play so they open their borders.

    • @mandago3783
      @mandago3783 Рік тому +53

      @@ricfermi5886 Let there be hatred if it must be for Truth. History can't be brushed like that and forgotten.

    • @ah-bu6wh
      @ah-bu6wh Рік тому +18

      @@ricfermi5886 you scare dog?

    • @njukimaregwa9179
      @njukimaregwa9179 Рік тому +19

      @@ricfermi5886 fala nyamaza

    • @wdafuk1313
      @wdafuk1313 Рік тому +8

      @@mandago3783 Only the hatred isn't based on truth.

  • @jharbin4409
    @jharbin4409 Рік тому +450

    Germany could never have moved forward if not for acknowledging their own atrocities. Britain should do the same.

    • @ricfermi5886
      @ricfermi5886 Рік тому +6

      Acknowledging by coercion!

    • @saliksayyar9793
      @saliksayyar9793 Рік тому +1

      The victors write the histories, all evil is pinned on the defeated enemy. The Germans have not been allowed to read or write a balanced history. They are still defeated and not allowed to buy gas from Russia while Norway exports gas to Poland and the UK has its North Sea oil

    • @ricfermi5886
      @ricfermi5886 Рік тому +11

      @@saliksayyar9793 Their thousand year old culture crushed, reduced to a seven-year hoax.

    • @ricfermi5886
      @ricfermi5886 Рік тому +1

      @@availanila that will do the day the Africans acknowledge their being sub-par quasi humans.

    • @ricfermi5886
      @ricfermi5886 Рік тому +8

      @@availanila it's you that should work out a way to be granted some feelings, only when you're graciously given some human feelings you'll understand what's shame.
      You haven't got feelings.

  • @MervinJCarey
    @MervinJCarey Рік тому +8

    Until the philosophy of one inferior, and another superior is discredit, and abounded we won't have any peace

  • @Shaleqa_Adenan
    @Shaleqa_Adenan 9 місяців тому +12

    My beautiful neighbor! You are truly real Africa and we are proud to be next to you from Ethiopia 🇪🇹

  • @bevmunga4094
    @bevmunga4094 Рік тому +111

    As a Kenyan, I am Outraged! Disgusted! But blessed to be here as our forefathers fought hard for our freedom. God bless all the Mau Mau fighters.

    • @j.granger1120
      @j.granger1120 Рік тому

      They killed more Kenyans then British.

    • @light279
      @light279 Рік тому +1

      I am not from Kenya and to say I am outraged and disgusted is not enough to describe
      how I FEEL.

    • @zertyuz
      @zertyuz 10 місяців тому +1

      As a Canadian... I am disgusted and ashamed. There was never any justification for what happened other than pure greed and hatred. Stay strong and bless Kenya.
      It was never about 'civilizing' because the English were never civilized in the first place, they just liked to think that.

    • @ngashjr
      @ngashjr 8 місяців тому +1

      ​@@zertyuz Yeah you can see it in their food and embracing eccentricism as culture.
      An empire built by crusaders, marauders and theiving pirates can only immitate civilization.
      They did all these underhanded things to the people of Kenya because they thought it would keep us under their boot forever.
      But that generation said, "give me liberty or death!"
      (Or something like that)
      After all this we still had to pay them some form of reparations for all the infrastructure they built here and had to keep a few expatriates around to train us how to run a country.
      Weirdly enough we still have some symbiotic relationship with Britain.
      Sometimes it feels like a toxic codependence!

    • @frankyyaggabot6222
      @frankyyaggabot6222 4 місяці тому +1

      You should perhaps also have an introduction to what the Mau Mau did (to mainly other native peoples). This was absent to the story and was so graphic that it probably would not pass the UA-cam censors ... they were not saints and despised by many in Kenya (black and white). This story is lacking balance and many leaders in Kenya at the time (including Kenyatta) were extremely critical of the Mau Mau and would be dismayed that figures such as Kimathi are being lionised today. You should not base your feelings on a single biased show based on poor scholarship - do your own research.

  • @abdinasirnathirmohamed6469
    @abdinasirnathirmohamed6469 Рік тому +301

    This is investigative journalism at its best.Well done AlJazeera you never disappoint

    • @aljazeeraenglish
      @aljazeeraenglish  Рік тому +43

      Thanks, dear Abdinasir. We're glad you liked it. 🙌

    • @Tenacity101
      @Tenacity101 Рік тому +17

      @@aljazeeraenglish thanks for bringing truths to light 😍

    • @prematureoptimism7125
      @prematureoptimism7125 Рік тому +5

      You've got to be kidding me right ?
      . . . . No comment.

    • @geekmeee
      @geekmeee Рік тому +4

      As long as Al Jazeera tells what actually happened…
      (As opposed to ‘alternate facts’)
      They will never disappoint.

    • @johnnykilonzo2103
      @johnnykilonzo2103 Рік тому

      I hate the fact it's one sided. Of course they were brutal but don't forget the other side of the story. Britain were too Victims of violence torture and enslavement by the Roman empire and Vikings .

  • @itoeasuh850
    @itoeasuh850 Рік тому +15

    I studied the Mao Mao revolt and the British cruelty in so many parts of Africa saluting my Bantu family in Kenya from Cameroon 🇨🇲

  • @freakinfrugal5268
    @freakinfrugal5268 Рік тому +8

    It boils down to greed, the most evil of all human traits. The greed of men. Every evil grows out of greed. It's sickening. It's what is ruining this planet.

  • @DavidOkikiAmayoJr.
    @DavidOkikiAmayoJr. Рік тому +104

    Al Jazeera's objectivity in reporting goes beyond 'truths,' well into fact.
    Fantastic docufilm.

    • @aljazeeraenglish
      @aljazeeraenglish  Рік тому +8

      Many thanks, dear Trevor. 🙋

    • @ricfermi5886
      @ricfermi5886 Рік тому +2

      This sort of revenge is sickening!

    • @sanjaychauhan1116
      @sanjaychauhan1116 Рік тому +4

      @@aljazeeraenglish will you make documentary on migrant workers exploitation and killing in Qatar

    • @milaari3079
      @milaari3079 Рік тому +4

      @@sanjaychauhan1116 lets ask Al Jazeera to make Indian human right issue documentary instead.

    • @milaari3079
      @milaari3079 Рік тому +6

      @@ricfermi5886 does it hurt to watch this reality news, Brit?

  • @Omer1996E.C
    @Omer1996E.C Рік тому +208

    As an Ethiopian, I feel for Kenyans, our siblings and neighbors. I know I'll never feel it since I had never experienced it, but it touches my heart a lot, even we were brutally treated in eritrea (eritrea and ethiopia are one in every thing, except the Italian made border) and ethiopia, during the second world War occupation, especially in addis ababa

    • @lilac8794
      @lilac8794 Рік тому +20

      I love how Ethiopians are always standing with us Kenyans. God bless Ethiopians

    • @eddyvos2628
      @eddyvos2628 Рік тому +6

      May the Lord keep and guide you.

    • @lovettesmith8196
      @lovettesmith8196 Рік тому +10

      And these are the demons that will talk about human rights???whaooo.

    • @Omer1996E.C
      @Omer1996E.C Рік тому

      @@lovettesmith8196 Ikr

    • @sentry8992
      @sentry8992 Рік тому +12

      Kenyans and Ethiopians and Eritreans should abandon those borders forced upon them by foreign occupiers and form one nation.

  • @crosscutbarber2301
    @crosscutbarber2301 Рік тому +7

    Watching this documentary leave me with many questions.but the one that stands out in my head is WHAT'S IS THE DEFRENCE BETWEEN NATZI GERMANY AND THE BRITISH EMPIRE 🤷🏿‍♂️

  • @graudianyambura9654
    @graudianyambura9654 Рік тому +8

    These kinds of truths should keep being told! Good job.

  • @hashimomar9935
    @hashimomar9935 Рік тому +139

    As an Arab ((my great grandma and my grandma are mijikendas one of the Bantu tribes)) born in Kenya on the coastal city of Mombasa where my ancestors came as trader before colonisation by British..This masterpiece has more information than what we were taught in Kenyan schools..Now am a foreign worker in Qatar and InshaAllah I will visit the Aljazeera offices soon.

    • @hayfordsomuah1134
      @hayfordsomuah1134 Рік тому +1

      Hp u are aware the Arabs enslaved us 5 centuries b4 the west came

    • @hashimomar9935
      @hashimomar9935 Рік тому +3

      @@hayfordsomuah1134 Yeah I know that and I would like to tell you my grandmother and his mother both are Africans from the mijikenda tribe

    • @ayankunleakanbi1650
      @ayankunleakanbi1650 Рік тому +11

      @@hashimomar9935
      but how come U describe urself as an Arab. If the original ancestors were an Arab man & an African woman, that means U r at the most, half Arab! 🤷🏾

    • @hashimomar9935
      @hashimomar9935 Рік тому +7

      @@ayankunleakanbi1650 I identify myself as an Arab because my father (an afro-arab) and mother (an Arab) so that's why Identify as an Arab

    • @lputaa
      @lputaa Рік тому +5

      We used to learn about your ancestors in History classes...wow y'all came long ago...heri nyinyi mlikuwa second class,hii mbogi ya Maumau ilikuwa inafinywa 😭

  • @eddiewangombe936
    @eddiewangombe936 Рік тому +90

    As a Kenya I knew that our forefathers had it bad but had no idea how bad it was, this moved me to tears. We may forgive but never forget.

    • @KeshiWangeci-tl4jm
      @KeshiWangeci-tl4jm 10 місяців тому +1

      Only fools can forgive them why couldn't they forgive our people if they had offended them wake up

    • @Powerful_Akoth
      @Powerful_Akoth 7 місяців тому

      Forgive people who have not asked for forgiveness? They don’t deserve forgiveness.

    • @kap849
      @kap849 6 місяців тому

      ​@@Powerful_AkothYou forgive for your own peace. Forgive but stay alert!

    • @kikio-rq9kx
      @kikio-rq9kx 4 місяці тому

      Can’t forgive

  • @gratitude5740
    @gratitude5740 Рік тому +8

    When I watched the part where the Kenyan flag was erected up on the pall, I got shivers and tears came down my face with gratitude and joy.
    I'm not Kenyan not British, I'm for fairness and freedom!❤
    Nakupenda Kenya !
    Mungu Akubariki milale!

  • @sherirobinson6867
    @sherirobinson6867 Рік тому

    I've been waiting to find time to watch this...
    Excellent coverage, commentary and documentary.
    Another fabulous publication by AJ!

  • @nicoledinga9948
    @nicoledinga9948 Рік тому +171

    Am so proud of my grandmothers and grandfather, for fighting in the mau mau, though one of my grandmother's jaw was broken by a British soldier with an AK 47, she is still the strongest woman I've ever met in my life! she is now 120 yrs looking beautiful strong and she has never even used any walking stick and to this day she amazes me..live long Granny ❤️

    • @elondesignske
      @elondesignske Рік тому +4

      Amazing 😻

    • @dennisthumbi7598
      @dennisthumbi7598 Рік тому +5

      The British army has never used the AK 47, it's a Russian weapon.
      But long live cucu.

    • @nicoledinga9948
      @nicoledinga9948 Рік тому +7

      @@dennisthumbi7598 my bad, that's all we grew up knowing

    • @elder-evmiriamwairimu-aris6453
      @elder-evmiriamwairimu-aris6453 Рік тому +2

      How can I meet her

    • @cryptohornbill9658
      @cryptohornbill9658 Рік тому +11

      They brought along with them bombs, machine guns and artillery to fight the defenseless Africans 😂 but Winston Churchill cried to America for help when Germany rained havoc on their ships 😂😂.

  • @md.muzahidulislamsamrat8037
    @md.muzahidulislamsamrat8037 Рік тому +164

    I think I am a tough man, how did tears come to my eyes?
    Nobody should go through this level of dehumanization. My heartiest condolences to all native victims of Kenya. Free Palestine- the last colony of British empire

    • @jacobfinder7476
      @jacobfinder7476 Рік тому +2

      Yes, and the world needs to understand the Israeli genocide against the Palestinian people.

    • @eltonlewis4979
      @eltonlewis4979 Рік тому +15

      UK still have colonies ...gibraltar, bermuda, british virgin island, and others

    • @ricfermi5886
      @ricfermi5886 Рік тому +7

      Ask Christiane Amanpour about Hutu and Tutsi

    • @babangidaomolos5104
      @babangidaomolos5104 Рік тому +3

      @@ricfermi5886 follow the queen to her grave! 😂

    • @ricfermi5886
      @ricfermi5886 Рік тому +2

      @@babangidaomolos5104 unlike subsahariens, we do have a soul. It's all there, written in the Holy Bible!

  • @ronniekinsler2797
    @ronniekinsler2797 Рік тому +3

    Thank you for the exposure. Appreciate you and your staff.

  • @ATLmodK
    @ATLmodK 2 місяці тому +5

    I am studying the Troubles, the conflict in Northern Ireland, where General (Sir) Frank Kitson applied his counterinsurgency technique developed in Kenya. He wrote a book, Low Intensity Operations where he outlined his strategies for counterinsurgency. By his own admission he approved and applied torture to those he questioned and incarcerated in Kenya. It never occurred to him that extrajudicial killing and torturing Black People would ever be questioned. From this he made the same arguments in Cyprus and Aden, and then finally the Irish. Seemingly anyone who questioned British rule was so far inferior to the British military that they need not be considered human.

    • @rightiswrongrightiswrong806
      @rightiswrongrightiswrong806 11 днів тому +1

      Kitson came to Ireland in the 1970s, we already had 700 years of colonialism before him. The Irish War of Independence saw British atrocities everyday all over Ireland. The British beat Irishmen for putting their hands in their pockets while British soldiers walked by. They burned Cork City in 1920, because of the deaths of their troops miles outside the city to the IRA. They starved the Irish to death in the 1840s, 2 million Irish died, a population of 8 million Irish was decimated to 3 million within 30 years.
      The British brought misery to the lands they attacked, and Britain will never change. How many times over the last few centuries have British troops been to Afghanistan? They still operate in Kenya today, as they still do in Ireland. Like a vampire, they only die in sunlight with a stake through the heart.

    • @ATLmodK
      @ATLmodK 11 днів тому

      @@rightiswrongrightiswrong806 Agree, Kitson was simply following what had been done before in
      all British colonies. The only shocker was that he was so certain that he would never be held accountable, that he wrote it all down. This was in the 20th century! But he was right, he was never held accountable.

  • @ibbbabn3788
    @ibbbabn3788 Рік тому +120

    BBC should broadcast these atrocities committed by their forefathers

    • @lputaa
      @lputaa Рік тому +1

      🤣😭💔

    • @j.Hasan007
      @j.Hasan007 Рік тому

      Never...

    • @milaari3079
      @milaari3079 Рік тому +11

      They Will never exposed themself

    • @channeler231
      @channeler231 Рік тому

      It will never happened the brits are too blind too arrogant to admit that they too were just as bad as the evil nazis were.

    • @naimadido7263
      @naimadido7263 Рік тому

      BBC was there taking part, doing their share of covering up. They can’t talk about this kind of history without admitting there involvement.

  • @MurreyEphraim
    @MurreyEphraim Рік тому +102

    When my grandma talks of the maumau times.. she sheds tears. Shes old but vividly recalls all the harsh, traumatic, painful and unforgettable ordeals. She traveled to Germany but came back shaken coz she feared that the whites might oppress her again.

    • @elondesignske
      @elondesignske Рік тому +3

      Wueeh so sorry 😔

    • @richardsampras4574
      @richardsampras4574 Рік тому

      i wonder why she's not traumatized about what the mau mau were doing to people

    • @eddyvos2628
      @eddyvos2628 Рік тому

      As a " white " I cannot begin to understand the trauma.
      But evil is and wad and will be everywhere. See the horror of the second world war, the gulag in Russia, the mass execution/oppression in China et cetera

    • @sidneyachia1909
      @sidneyachia1909 Рік тому

      @@richardsampras4574 having been PRISONERS of THE WHITE MAN from slightly after 1898, by the time it was 1952 these Africans were TIRED of living as THIRD CLASS CITIZENS in their own HOMELAND.
      It seems as though you don't know what it means to LOSE YOUR FREEDOM. Imagine being in a POLICE CELL for five days, ... no for FIFTY YEARS!
      We would expect you err by siding with the VICTIMS and not by siding with the PERPETRATORS. Have mercy. 🙏

    • @eddyvos2628
      @eddyvos2628 Рік тому +2

      @@jacklinekarwitha9413 Oh no it is not like that. I don't try to minimise what Kenyans went through. I just didn't know about till recently. All I tried to say is I knew about the horror committed by king Leopold II in Congo. Sorry you felt this way. By the way, we are 1 race, the human race. Then also my daughter is half African. I might choose to retire somewhere in Africa. God bless Africa.

  • @tortiedove
    @tortiedove 11 місяців тому +1

    Thank you for making this! I never knew about this struggle and dark period in Kenyan and British history.

  • @fariedmaya3617
    @fariedmaya3617 Рік тому +2

    Appreciate this kind of documentary, great job Al Jazeera. Keep dig for the truth, for justice of humanity.

  • @bagumampenda2275
    @bagumampenda2275 Рік тому +532

    Qatar literally said to the British, “You wanna talk about human rights coz we got the World Cup? Let’s start here!”😅😅😅

    • @abdinasirmohamed2238
      @abdinasirmohamed2238 Рік тому +13

      😁😁😁

    • @tonnyanthonys2159
      @tonnyanthonys2159 Рік тому +16

      True that 😃😃

    • @Kannot2023
      @Kannot2023 Рік тому +54

      The difference is timing, Brits did it half century ago. Qatar is doing now. Britain discussed this on public, when Qatar will discuss their problems?

    • @xl6941
      @xl6941 Рік тому

      Arabic brutalism is still existant and far much worse. Not just Qatar. Africans are enslaved in Arabic world to this day

    • @bagumampenda2275
      @bagumampenda2275 Рік тому +1

      @@Kannot2023 Qatar opened an ILO (UN labour rights arm) Project Office since 2018 specifically to address the migrant workers situation and they are going to make is a permanent arrangement. You probably did not know that since you are consumed by your virtue signalling. Britain did not address anything about colonialism, they created a problem and when they understood their empire was coming to an end they took they high road pretended to grant independence, just like they did with slavery.
      Also your argument that Britain did it 50 years ago and that they should be absolved is just stupid. Have you even watched the documentary? The people Britain tortured are still alive and they are giving their testimonies in the documentary.

  • @rahabwanjiku6231
    @rahabwanjiku6231 Рік тому +4

    My grandmother has always told us about those times, but I didn't know it was that bad. I'm angry.
    We will never forget!
    🇰🇪🇰🇪

  • @DAVIDDOWNEY23
    @DAVIDDOWNEY23 Рік тому +3

    Excellent documentary, well researched and very moving.

  • @jefmweds
    @jefmweds Рік тому +40

    My Grandfather was a maumau, I shed tears after seeing the independence fireworks. The hypocrisy of the UK government is really wanting, just own up your mess. We Kenyans will never forget what was done to our ancestors, We will never! That should sink in to anyone who think we can be friends based on hypocrisy. We know that we are in a convenient relationship with them, who even today continue to look down on us kins because of skin color. I love my country. To the collaborators sons and daughters who continue to occupy leadership positions, being remorseful in your service is required. What you did to your brothers and sisters was terrible and we will never forget.

    • @jonsimmons4150
      @jonsimmons4150 Рік тому

      Uk biggest mistake in 1000 years was to get involved in ww2.
      Hitlers armies were there to keep Europe safe, instead of which we fought them, when the uk should have stayed independant.

    • @sheilasullivan1950
      @sheilasullivan1950 Рік тому +4

      Forgive but do not forget. We Irish learned, many moons ago, that lesson.

    • @ianbeddowes5362
      @ianbeddowes5362 Місяць тому

      Red Salute yo your grandfather from a British Communist and former soldier of uMkhonto we Sizwe. Amandla!

  • @BlsdWageci
    @BlsdWageci Рік тому +59

    This broke my heart on so many levels. Thank you! We needed to be taught and reminded what happened because most of our elders are no longer here to share their experiences. We should never forget. I pray Africa will stand united.

  • @jimmie4141
    @jimmie4141 Рік тому +3

    This is why as Kenyans we never mourned the death of the queen....we know the struggle we went through..our Grand parents still have bullet scars, torture scars..and trauma...we learn about the struggle for independence in school...we can never and will never mourn a colonizer!

  • @SuperDiamondace
    @SuperDiamondace Рік тому +18

    This is a familiar story for us Kenyans esp if your grandparents come from Central Kenya. My grandma always narrates the gruesome torture they bore during British Colonialism. She tells it so vividly like it happened just yesterday. It's painful to know most of it was not documented including the emotional trauma. There's no enough compensation will be able to wipe their tears. She always tells to really value the cost of our freedom because it was very expensive. It cost many lives. May God bless the souls of our freedom fighters.

  • @kenrichmwanza
    @kenrichmwanza Рік тому +52

    Such an Insightful Documentary! As a Kenyan, can those documents be put out for the Kenyan public? We have a right to understand our True History. This is not what They teach us in school.

    • @ben33584
      @ben33584 Рік тому +4

      Our scholastic education is still colonized sadly

    • @AMarie2326
      @AMarie2326 Рік тому

      They are there some are in Archives . But people’s minds need to be decolonized to see who the real culprits are.

    • @joshuaombaka3116
      @joshuaombaka3116 Рік тому

      Really. I've listened to what is detailed in this documentary and it isn't new as much. We have it in primary book and detailed further in secondary school. Furthermore, we have literature that is availed to show proof that we also had homeguards that helped defeat Mau Mau. So, it is true that history details this

  • @selaboy
    @selaboy Рік тому +66

    This is a masterpiece thanks Al Jazeera 🇴🇲💯

    • @aljazeeraenglish
      @aljazeeraenglish  Рік тому +7

      Many thanks for your positive feedback, dear Suley. 🙌

    • @sanjaychauhan1116
      @sanjaychauhan1116 Рік тому +3

      @@aljazeeraenglish will you make documentary on migrant workers exploitation and killing in Qatar

    • @brahma_the_daughter_eater
      @brahma_the_daughter_eater Рік тому +2

      @@sanjaychauhan1116 pajeets reacts like workers never dies in india

    • @rico8573
      @rico8573 Рік тому +1

      ​@@sanjaychauhan1116 here come cow vigilante 😂

  • @micerekariuki4714
    @micerekariuki4714 Рік тому +5

    My grandma went through all this. She talks of the story as if it happened yesterday. She has a lot of pain and she is sooo traumatized. She lost a baby also during this time. She remembers Everything till today. This was wrong. What the mzungu did was wrong.

  • @omemaskema9012
    @omemaskema9012 Рік тому +3

    Thankuuu for this Aljazeera...thankuu

  • @realgamer5636
    @realgamer5636 Рік тому +52

    Al Jazeera documentaries are incomparable in today's times. keep it up.

    • @aljazeeraenglish
      @aljazeeraenglish  Рік тому +9

      Thanks! 🙋

    • @vickomen3697
      @vickomen3697 Рік тому +1

      Been a fan since 2010 while quite young. I remember watching about the Syrian conflict. Then the Occupation of the American Mind really opened me up to the amazing work of Al Jazeera.

    • @aljazeeraenglish
      @aljazeeraenglish  Рік тому +4

      Thanks a million, dear @@vickomen3697 🙌

  • @cynthiag.1306
    @cynthiag.1306 Рік тому +53

    In 2018 I met two Mau Mau fighters ; a woman and a man, still living with bullets (what were called pellets in their days ) in their bodies. They were most happy that I had travelled from my town to Nyandarua without seeking permission or hanging the Kipande on my neck. They offered us food, prayed for us and gave us some money to use on our way back..they would not take no for an answer. They were never rewarded and lived as squatters, but they said my freedom of movement; and that of my colleagues was a great reward and that they could now rest (read die).

    • @satyabratachatterjee1938
      @satyabratachatterjee1938 Рік тому +8

      This is what irks me a lot . The treatment that is given to these honourable people who fought and suffered to bring freedom to their country .
      They should be honoured they should find satisfaction in recognition of their sufferings and sacrifices . But the power goes to such people who are self important and they generally neglect these freedom fighters such that no one claims a share to their glory . I have read of this , seen this happen almost universally . It pains me a lot .

  • @propertisyariahsemarang8142

    World class! thank you al Jazeera for showing the world the suffering of the Kenyan, greeting of solidarity from Indonesia

  • @JoanNyota
    @JoanNyota 15 днів тому +2

    God bless Kenya🙏 Long live our beloved motherland 🇰🇪🇰🇪

  • @nw504
    @nw504 Рік тому +23

    They are international narcissists and gaslighting savages! May God bless the people of Kenya.

  • @nancykahuho
    @nancykahuho Рік тому +47

    I am a kikuyu , my grandparents - specifically died fighting for the kenyan independence , they were buried in an unmarked graves - this set out so much pain tor my family , even today being the third - generations .
    In short poverty and survival took root .
    A home without a father - what happens to it ? Who protects the children and the vunerable woman left behind in the 1960’s.

  • @enduro5841
    @enduro5841 Рік тому +1

    It's sad that this parts of the history have been deducted. Thank you @Al Jazeera

  • @estherwanjiru7005
    @estherwanjiru7005 Рік тому +5

    my grandmother had tales about the 'muthungu' .. what she went through is something she carried everyday of her life. May she rest in peace.

  • @FreemanV99
    @FreemanV99 Рік тому +186

    One thing that has always baffled me in colonialism is the idea of recruiting locals to use against their own people. An idea, without it, the very concept of colonisation wouldn't be possible.

    • @kabegapascal8601
      @kabegapascal8601 Рік тому +17

      It was a do or die in most cases people who dint do it where slaughtered

    • @ricfermi5886
      @ricfermi5886 Рік тому +2

      Obviously it could only be possible with the locals!!

    • @civirebel
      @civirebel Рік тому +19

      False promises of manifest destiny. Things are not what they seem, and what glitters is rarely gold.

    • @JAN-SA
      @JAN-SA Рік тому

      Its still happening to this day in all civil wars where first world countries have boots on the ground and mercenaries .... Provide arms and pay locals to kill their own people around important natural resources and to destabalise the government and displace people....

    • @ricfermi5886
      @ricfermi5886 Рік тому +2

      @@JAN-SA '...pay locals...' and Locals are more than happy to accept it.

  • @shellibelli4387
    @shellibelli4387 Рік тому +28

    The colonial superiority complex was still evident when I spent a year in Kenya in 1985, while working with the US Peace Corps (teaching math near Oyugis). I would occasionally meet a white Kenyan near Nairobi who had a disparaging attitude toward the black Kenyans. One made a mean comment about how the black women looked in polyester dresses. There were foreign missionaries from all over the world in Kenya trying to ‘save’ the black Kenyans while asking for weekly donations of coins for their small churches. I learned a lot from the Kenyans I lived and worked with. It was a wonderful place, especially far from Nairobi.

  • @joekabbz82kambo26
    @joekabbz82kambo26 Рік тому +18

    My hatred for British colonialists is real. The pain and the blood that my innocent countrymen shed as a result of white man's greed of our natural resources was uncalled for. My prayers and love for the maumau victims and family members who witnessed this holocaust is always with us Kenyans, we appreciate your defiance and arms struggle as well as your patriotism. God bless you abundantly 🇰🇪 💕💕💕🙏

    • @frankyyaggabot6222
      @frankyyaggabot6222 4 місяці тому +3

      There were precious few natural resources in Kenya - it was the secondary industries that the colonists set up and English Taxpayers that largely paid for Kenya's early development. The Mau Mau was also widely despised in the 1960s - the reversal of that is a modern phenomena that is the result of a lot of bad scholarship and propaganda. I would defer to Jomo Kenyatta's assessment of the Mau Mau in which he described it as a civil war amongst Kikuyu old and new. Truth is never simple and to misconstrue events decades after they occurred is a fallacy that will create a whole new evil. History is not learned but contrived to fit a narrative that has little to do with the past.

    • @adxtti3321
      @adxtti3321 19 днів тому

      @@frankyyaggabot6222 you cant deceive people out not seeing your wrongs, an ethnic cleansing is what occured.

  • @joyjewel8003
    @joyjewel8003 Рік тому +1

    Thankyou so much for this upload. We now know an important degree of truth during that time. We honour our freedom fighters

  • @spicytomango
    @spicytomango Рік тому +87

    I remember there were some Brits who were upset about some countries celebrating the Queen's passing. I hope this documentary is shared for all to see the horrors these monsters committed in her name. To deny what happened is to defend the unthinkable.

    • @johnnykilonzo2103
      @johnnykilonzo2103 Рік тому +3

      But Britain were once colonised by the Romans and they too suffered.
      Besides us Kenyans were killing each other

    • @logic5204
      @logic5204 Рік тому +21

      @@johnnykilonzo2103 Two wrongs don't make a right.

    • @MarvoloSalazar
      @MarvoloSalazar Рік тому +3

      @@logic5204 huyo jamaa anajaribu kusema nini sasa shenzi kabisa

    • @michaelochido3244
      @michaelochido3244 Рік тому

      @@johnnykilonzo2103 sir do you actually hear what you are saying....so because the Romans colonized Britain,it was their right to commit dastardly atrocities and pillage,greed in their colonies...planned famine in India,brutal atrocities in Burma,Kenya,South Africa West indies ,Australia and many other countries!As a historian,I have read The iceman Inheritance...it answers a lot of queries on caucasian conquest,greed,misogny and their cruelty

    • @Brian-bo4bz
      @Brian-bo4bz Рік тому +2

      @@johnnykilonzo2103 wewe unafikiria kama mshenzi tu, Sasa nikikuja nikuue sai ni sawa ju anyway watu wanauana tu Kenya Hadi Leo?

  • @peaceamani4186
    @peaceamani4186 Рік тому +32

    I think all of East Africa owes the Mau Mau a THANK YOU. I had always wondered why Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania got their independence around the same time. This makes it very clear.

    • @gonnagritt1777
      @gonnagritt1777 Рік тому +8

      kenya was a colony, uganda was a protectorate and tanganyika was under british trusteeship after germany lost it during WW 1. today we are defined by that.

    • @peaceamani4186
      @peaceamani4186 Рік тому +4

      @@gonnagritt1777 those are just fancy words. We all know we were colonised

    • @kim1570
      @kim1570 Рік тому +3

      @@peaceamani4186 No they're not just fancy words, they're different forms of rulership that the colonialists imposed on us, that had vastly different effects on we Kenyans. You can never compare a protectorate to a colony, particularly a crown colony, which Kenya was.

    • @thaliabeaby8202
      @thaliabeaby8202 Рік тому +5

      @@gonnagritt1777 Uganda was a protectorate thats true.Uganda had Buganda who rejected total subjugation,they were smart and assertive,the British had nothing to teach Buganda.She had her civilisation,organised leadership and strength over other nations.The British had no choice but to use civility because Buganda was civil.

    • @gonnagritt1777
      @gonnagritt1777 Рік тому +1

      @@thaliabeaby8202 but this did not end up well for UG..

  • @jeffmurage
    @jeffmurage Рік тому

    Much appreciated for this piece! Gracias!

  • @joshuamohler2356
    @joshuamohler2356 Рік тому +1

    Thank you for this informative documentary

  • @rotich.5872
    @rotich.5872 Рік тому +37

    Very nice documentary illustrating the struggles that the people of kenya were going through during the colonial era. Also the British lad who is directing this film is indeed an emblem of what journalism is, standing for truth regardless if it will favor you. Hats off to Proff Godfrey Muriuki.

    • @Crabtree1844
      @Crabtree1844 Рік тому

      We now have neo-colonialism facilitated by corrupt politicians on the payroll of former colonists. They are the modern home guards facilitating torture, disappearance, murder of the governed.

    • @satyabratachatterjee1938
      @satyabratachatterjee1938 Рік тому +2

      Greedy people , greed for fame , power or money or all three sold their souls to the colonisers . We had our share of them in this country, our India .

  • @kaborimaish
    @kaborimaish Рік тому +20

    should we tell them? should we tell the world? should we tell them that even after all that torture and atrocities unleashed on the mau mau, it is the children and grand children of home guards, colonial chiefs and collaborators who are actually enjoying the fruits of this struggle

  • @abongderic8565
    @abongderic8565 2 місяці тому

    aljazeera, you never disappoint!!

  • @neommutle8033
    @neommutle8033 8 місяців тому +1

    Thank you AL J for doing this report. 🙏 The BBC will never do such a report.

  • @gaiamagna9156
    @gaiamagna9156 Рік тому +32

    The best things of learning histories are to understand the present and to not repeat the same mistakes.

    • @raeRai993
      @raeRai993 Рік тому +1

      History repeats. It’s sucks

    • @hassanharith6820
      @hassanharith6820 Рік тому

      Some MISTAKE does happen trough ( underlying causes/reasons of) provocative actions, . . .i guess.
      *
      ie: trough ' kind demeanor ',. human right / or some people might called it ' hyper - liberal '.
      **
      -Just opinion.
      -No intention to against the human rights.

    • @artisthusnatalal3099
      @artisthusnatalal3099 Рік тому +2

      *They own these International schools but they can't give an opportunity vacancy to Kenyans who are undergraduates with experience in Teaching. They keep bringing their people from abroad. I guess many of them are living in Kenya illegally. They should be investigated. These people are of themselves* 🤨

  • @halimaissack4719
    @halimaissack4719 Рік тому +38

    As a kenyan this is really heartbreaking documentary.... people shed blood for kenya to gain freedom .Mau Mau our unsung heroes ....

  • @sheegrace
    @sheegrace Рік тому +4

    Wow! Being Kenyan myself but born and grown up abroad and hearing stories from my grandparents about those horrific times, this was very enlightening. So sad that there has never been acknowledgement of all the atrocities that took place in Kenya and during British colonialism around the world. It is clear that they have tried to push it under the rug and no accountability has ever been taken at least. You can clearly see on Gavaghan's documentary excerpt he was absolutely unremorseful and in denial thinking he was doing right. I hope our and future generations learn from these mistakes and they are never repeated again!

    • @davidlloyd-jones8519
      @davidlloyd-jones8519 Рік тому +1

      Mambo Shee. There is an eliment suspiciously missing from this story - and that is that the core maumau were visited by the russians - inspired by communism - and so the 'conflict' became far far greater and deeper than the story conveyed by this video.
      Yes i know many suffered - but just like today - the issues may appear to be racial - but the greater battle is between left/right ideologies and narratives - this reality is hiding in plain sight - even today.

    • @ebbymangao3609
      @ebbymangao3609 7 місяців тому

      Àaaàaaaaa❤❤

  • @Yourstory245.
    @Yourstory245. Рік тому +5

    As a Kenyan, this was hard to watch 🥺

  • @sammymwatha8977
    @sammymwatha8977 Рік тому +37

    As a Kenyan, from Mt. Kenya region, where the Mau Mau began, my grandfather used to narrate to us when we were kids the untold horrors, torture, castration and evil they went through... And later learn it in school, albeit a more sanitized version of it .. I'm in my early thirties but the stories have stayed with me, often deeply and it makes me not take for granted the freedom that I enjoy... I'm pregnant with the fact that it was paid for by blood, our forefathers blood... Couldn't be more proud of them..

    • @eddyvos2628
      @eddyvos2628 Рік тому +4

      As a belgian I am shocked by this documentary. I heard much more what happened in Congo. In 2017 I was in Kenya and heard about the land conflict. Now only I hear some horrifying details. May the Lord bring healing.

  • @henrymutonga585
    @henrymutonga585 Рік тому +32

    Thanks for airing this cases, I hope the British young lads would watch this and learn from their past.

    • @numinuecooper9975
      @numinuecooper9975 Рік тому

      Don’t count n them to do right, they’re their fathers and mothers children. They’re photo copies of their parents, prepare yourself because history has a tendency of repeating itself. The solution to this madness is for Africa to unite and build a massive military force to protect the continent from the masses of evil, the real savages of the world.

  • @Black_ish77
    @Black_ish77 8 місяців тому +2

    'What you cannot do with peace, you can archieve through war' gave the chills🥶

  • @isaackingori
    @isaackingori Рік тому +3

    Its a good documentary ,so informative.Thankyou.

  • @maghangamngangu6347
    @maghangamngangu6347 Рік тому +21

    The British also fought with Taita Tribe and took their land and never returned it upto today. Some Taitas in Kenya are living as squatters in their ancestral land

    • @abocas
      @abocas Рік тому +4

      I think you should address the Kenyatta family about this. They certainly learned something from the Brits.
      If nothing else else, they learned corruption and land grabbing .... big time!

  • @chidmi
    @chidmi Рік тому +84

    British media : criticizing Qatar and their Culture during World cup .
    Al jazeera : Do i need to remind you guys ?

    • @ObeySilence
      @ObeySilence Рік тому +7

      In British Media landscape there exist thousands of documentaries critisising what the generation of old Brits committed.

    • @j.Hasan007
      @j.Hasan007 Рік тому +3

      Well said....

    • @danarzechula3769
      @danarzechula3769 Рік тому +3

      2 wrongs don't make a right

    • @rarefootball10
      @rarefootball10 Рік тому +12

      @@ObeySilence Don't say old Brits, just say Brits. There is no distinction between them, especially if the latter keep denying the very occurrences.

    • @henryochieng6892
      @henryochieng6892 Рік тому +2

      This is no justification for Qatar's human rights abuses.

  • @njuenjagi4983
    @njuenjagi4983 Рік тому +4

    As a Kenyan, and as an Embu where part of the Mau Mau came from.......this is heavy!

    • @kim1570
      @kim1570 6 місяців тому

      Kabisa. GEMA 💪🏿🙏🏿

  • @theoddball1
    @theoddball1 Рік тому +24

    What Kenyans went through was totally inhuman.. Apart from the Mau Mau there were also atrocities done in western part of Kenya to the Nandi people (kalenjin dialect). Their leader was beheaded and his head taken to Britain. Up to date the British aren't willing to bring it back..

    • @mamak6802
      @mamak6802 Рік тому

      Anti 🙆! Very sad indeed.

    • @gilgilmore5471
      @gilgilmore5471 Рік тому +1

      The Oddball
      It's essential that we teach our children their African History and for all of us to be a United African. Respect maintain our cultural traditions and help each other as Africans. This would help achieve a stronger united African Nations.

  • @EdwardKamaunbrows878
    @EdwardKamaunbrows878 Рік тому +39

    Al Jazeera never lets down when they do such pieces. As a Kenyan, I rem my late grandad coming to tears when he narrated how they were tortured in one of the camps. This should be front page news. The British should be taught more about what their country did to other people. Jews never let world forget what was done to them neither should we

  • @LUISARAMOSCRICK
    @LUISARAMOSCRICK 7 місяців тому +1

    Extraordinay documentary, exemplary research. Very moving. My country was a colonial power, but in Portugal we started to uncover our colonial past with all its brutality. All colonial powers enslaved, tortured and killed men, women and children. I want to thank you for your work and this documentary.

  • @calacurrather9994
    @calacurrather9994 Рік тому +2

    Great Documentary. Kudos to Aljazeera.

  • @olabenne5519
    @olabenne5519 Рік тому +13

    As a Tanzanian..am boiling with anger

    • @sheilasullivan1950
      @sheilasullivan1950 Рік тому

      No, do not fall into that trap. To forgive is divine. Just be sure to not forget is the key. Peace to you. Us Irish were divided and conquered by them then scattered to the four winds as slaves. We made it. You will too. Eyes on heaven. That is our final destination. Saints get crucified in this world. Proof you are a holy people. Do not give up. Love beats all.

  • @ODan-wz2lz
    @ODan-wz2lz Рік тому +22

    I always regret that our school children are never taught this enough in schools. This should be hammered into every young generation lest we forget and let our guards down again.

  • @adonisstudioske8208
    @adonisstudioske8208 Рік тому +3

    As a Kenyan who’s watching this , I lack words to describe who I feel

  • @DonAlpha
    @DonAlpha Рік тому +3

    The experiences that our grandparents would narrate to us would not only drive them but also us to painful tears.The kikuyu community paid a heavy price for kenya's freedom.
    I salute my two grandfathers who were mau mau fighters for braving up against British imperialism !!
    Even after losing thousands of its most energetic men ,the kikuyu community lives on nevertheless.
    God bless our nation kenya 🇰🇪

  • @natashaserem
    @natashaserem Рік тому +46

    No European nation that participated in the scramble and partition of Africa and eventually leading to colonisation will ever accept or agree to the things they did to us. But still we live to fight another day. You may deny, but history never forgets. Thank you for this documentary. 🇰🇪

    • @emmanueloban8349
      @emmanueloban8349 Рік тому +3

      The Belgians under King Leopold was the culprit on the subjugation of African slaves. Belgium should pay reparations...

    • @fruitsarelife7073
      @fruitsarelife7073 Рік тому

      @@emmanueloban8349 They are still exploiting Africa. There is no independence. Africa is neo-colonized. Let alone the west paying reperations. They are not done. That’s why we leave Africa.

    • @emmanueloban8349
      @emmanueloban8349 Рік тому

      @@fruitsarelife7073 it is so true!!! The United Nations had failed Africa in so many ways. Exploitation of people and natural resources are still going. Every non-profit groups I have heard on television that supposedly helping the Africans were just publicity stunts no more, no less.

    • @Kosmas.9284
      @Kosmas.9284 Рік тому +1

      They might be crushed by the Russians, that would be good karma!

    • @jphalsberghe1
      @jphalsberghe1 Рік тому

      @@emmanueloban8349 The bulk of ''Belgian'' atrocities were made under King Leopold 100% ownership of the Congo. He never set a step on ''his property''. Every year, he received ''business reports'' from ''managers many non-Belgians. He had no idea what happened in the Congo and in cas he had some information, he was too far away and probably would have condoned it.
      When news reached Belgium and England of massive repression in Leopold's Congo, the Belgian State forced its revered King to ''donate'' his property Congo to the Belgian State.
      Finally under heavy pressure, he gave in and a much softer Belgian State controlled ''colonialism'' followed. After lengthy Belgian military efforts, the Belgian State made an end to the countless Arab raids in the Congo to capture tens of thousands of Congolese slaves.
      History, real history is never only black and white.

  • @kevoh5087
    @kevoh5087 Рік тому +65

    I'm a kenyan living in kenya high lands during 1970 and 80 it was rare to find aged people because 80% of them were killed by British while fighting like me i didn't find my grandfather my dad told me his father was killed by British government i found my grandmother with no ribs she told me her ribs were broken by (nyakeru) British its sad she passed away in 2010 suffering 😢 and there are more grandparents suffering just hoping one day they will remember kenya the remaining grandparents are suffering they gained nothing.

    • @kevoh5087
      @kevoh5087 Рік тому +2

      @@pm3302 i believe in maumau and mungiki

    • @sheilasullivan1950
      @sheilasullivan1950 Рік тому +1

      Do not despair. For your Father in heaven sees all, knows all. Satan rules this world but your Father in heaven owns this world and us. Choose Him. No saint leaves this world in peace and quiet. They always suffer a martyrs death. Took me a long long time to understand and accept that fact. So be joyful. Your ancestor is in heaven at the heavenly banquet rejoicing. Sing thanks and praise, it is all good.

    • @smr4712
      @smr4712 Рік тому

      @@sheilasullivan1950 we will not wait on the slumbering Lord for our revenge..

  • @adventureheads3657
    @adventureheads3657 Рік тому +1

    That's why I love Al Jazeera they show you real things that can't CNN or other news can't show

  • @alexiaNBC
    @alexiaNBC Рік тому +3

    And Kenya was forced to pay respect to a dead Queen who let these attrocities happen. Life is stupid.

  • @issamohamed9757
    @issamohamed9757 Рік тому +13

    The documentary has ignited a substantial conversation about the British imperial past in Kenya, and the role of the British monarchy in providing a cultural cover for the genocide and enslavement.

    • @robertewing3114
      @robertewing3114 7 місяців тому

      The media is a cultural cover for most State crimes. Republics do the same as monarchies, issuing official lies against individual citizens and calling it justice. These documents are of no interest to anyone influential, the public is told the law rules, the documents prove there is no law, all is lies. And there is nothing any one can do to induce the media to examine present State crimes, as told to the European Parliament systems are not serving people rather the people are serving the systems. Evil it is, yet the media will only say unofficially, I quote, Its all a con, isn't it?

  • @andrewkapel502
    @andrewkapel502 Рік тому +40

    They also need to uncover the Koloa massacre in Baringo county in the year 1950, where over a hundred of local religion followers were sprayed with bullets for alleged overcrowding which looked a threat to colonial government. The few survivors were later taken to exile in the neighbouring Uganda until after independence. They have never seen justice or compensation upto date.

    • @dr.bethwellowuor3046
      @dr.bethwellowuor3046 Рік тому

      The scale of colonial high handedness never ends Mumbo religious uprising led to many deaths in the southwestern part of Kenya

    • @michaelrapando6658
      @michaelrapando6658 Рік тому

      Kipsigis massacre and many more others applied to various tribes around Kenya,and should return heads of some our ancestors

  • @jamesmwangi6816
    @jamesmwangi6816 Рік тому +3

    An eye-opening documentary.

  • @kayambakayumbet
    @kayambakayumbet Рік тому +2

    To my brave grandpa who died in detention, you are forever loved

  • @AlphonsoTheTrader
    @AlphonsoTheTrader Рік тому +22

    British colonialism in Kenya was just inhumane, I learned the hard way from my Grandfather. Sad