On behalf of myself,my nation of Apache Nation USA & our families;We are sorry about the very atrocious treatment of all parts of Africa,especially Kenya.❤
We grieve with the people of Ukraine, as we would of all peoples that suffer persecution from oppressive regimes and races. However should the world care more when those who suffer are of the same race and heritage of those who institutionalized oppression?. Where are the cries of outrage when the peoples of Africa demand to be given that which is theirs, when they are killed as vermin for even thinking or vocalizing these demands. Are we to suffer the same fate as our native American and Australian brothers. A lion cub is killed quite easily, but not so a mature lion who is wary of abuse and has lost all fear of the abuser, Africa Unight, for in unity there is strength, let the lions of Africa roar with one voice, Africa for Africans at home and abroad.
My mom who is still alive is one of them. She is a very proud mau mau fighter. She narrates to us the reason she is unable to read or write is because she refused to attend school in order to supply food to men who were fighting and more so because education was seen as conforming to a white man way of life. We call her an iron lady. To this day at 90, she is very sharp and quick witted.
This is so very sad. I'm only just (at the age of 41) learning about this. This should be taught in British schools so people are aware of the horrific events in history
The level of patience and understanding that some of the torture survivors have is unbelievable. They don't hate, and aren't bitter. They simply want recognition of the injustice they suffered, and just compensation for it, so they can get closure.
As far as they are concerned the world and all thats in it is theirs. They and their kind are the producers of the weapons of war that allow them to exert their will on peaceful people the world over, to plunder and pillage and gather to themselves, for empire and county. It is in their nature, coded into their very DNA. Just read European history to know that whats happening today is but the latest chapter. The only difference is the world now watches in real time, and many views weaken the propaganda that is normally vomited out.
The crimes of the British colonial masters shall never go unforgotten.I recall the stories from my ancestors the trauma left on our Kenyan & African people cannot be bribed by any amount to be forgotten. Malipo ni hapa hapa duniani.
My grandfather was among the last people to be released from Hola camp,he died shortly after. My grand mother was shot on the leg as she attempted to take food to the forest for the Mau Mau. She still bear the scar on her right calf to this day. when I see her and the atrocities she witnessed I feel as if I went through them myself.
The 1956 movie “Safari “ touched on the subject of Mau Mau. From what I can recall they were considered a band of terrorists in that film. Victor Mature and Janet Leigh were the main stars.
our grandmother with 8 children was taken while looking some veg in her fram, and by that time my grandfather was arrested too and our Grandmother was not seen again but we will meet again in the New Kingdom.
I have spent the better part of this year going back to my roots. I've read every material I have found about MAUMAU and watched every documentary about the same. I have listened to stories of people who have information on the same passed to them by word of mouth by their forefathers. And to date, I still do not comprehend exactly why the British put our freedom fighters through this. I've cried so many times just listening to some of the torture they were put through. Inhumane is an understatement. We surely didn't deserve this freedom fighter. Kenyatta should be ashamed for not honoring them! Long live Maumau💔
I remember being told of the uprising by my mother and today my wife and I mentioned it in the context of a film ..hence I watched this documentary and yet again I am ashamed of the colour of my skin and what my ancestors and country did ... As a student of Development studies and Politics , it is to myself the horrendous continuation of the belief that one human being has the right to subjugate another ..to remove dignity, liberty and power and gain profit from it in the form of land and money .. Although there was an eventual legal victory , this country still hides it insidiously from its children and hence it's history . To do this perpetuates the crime
My dad is 82. He took his first oath (tricked into doing it as were most other people) while on holiday from high school, which would be in the early 50s. When he narrates the stories from those days, he mentions the murdered victims by name, like X, son of Y, the way Kikuyu identified themselves back in the day. It makes it very palpable and real to me. When I drive him upcountry, he loves to tell tales of memorable things that happened at different places along the way, like pointing out areas that used to have bandits, or a spot where a mad man tried holding a falling tree after it had been struck by lightning and got crushed by it to death, etc. There's also stories about spots where people were deliberately ran over by British soldiers driving their Jeeps or Land Rovers - I don't remember which. Or this poor man who was used as a human shield by a colonial officer, who had strapped the man to his vehicle door, such that the man was hanging outside the driver's door, strapped on to the body of the moving vehicle, so that should a freedom fighter (the British called them terrorists, but we call them freedom heroes) hiding in the bushes by the roadside fire at the vehicle, the poor man would get hit instead of the colonial officer. My dad knew that man by name. My dad had cousins who were little kids then, playing out in the grass when they noticed tufts of grass getting uprooted from the ground and flying up in the air before falling again as if by an invisible being. They rushed in to tell their aunt to come out and see the 'miracle'. The invisible hand behind the uprooting turned out to be bullets from a sniper's gun. We're talking about kids about ten years old. That's what the British were doing in Kenya and treating our grandparents worse than they treated their pets or livestock. I have no hate against the British, but I just do not understand how a people who claim to be civil would act like this to another people who welcomed them into their country and were hospitable to the comers. And to think that such people still exist today...
My granddad went to the bush to join maumau, leaving my dad and his two siblings, all under ten with my grandma. My grandma was forced to live in the colonial ' gichagi' village and work 5 days on colonial coffee farms for free. The kids were left to fend for themselves in the prison like village until their parents returned in the evening from the coffee plantations. My grand father's youngest brother was captured and tortured and was in prison even after independence later confined in a mental institution for over 20 years. Later I learnt after pressuring my elders for what happened to their brother, I was told the British had tortured him upto castration!. The man was not the same after that. He spent most of the rest of his life in mental institutions, only to come back home old and ready to die. So sad the British talk of fighting Hitler, when at the SAME period their did atrocities to blacks, who only wanted to live on their own land. This happenned after the current queen took the reigns! Her terror still has scars today.
Yes, they do still exist, taking advantage through their contracts and NGOs. Even though u have forgiven, don't forget! Pass it on to your kids, that is what your parents did for you.
Well the power structure of the British and the other thieves in Western Europe is evil so it mattered not whether Kenyans native Americans, indigenous Australians and the like we're peaceful and hospitable. The bottom line is that evil people do evil things. Very unfortunate to know that your family was directly impacted.
They let this drag out until the guilty died off after enjoying full lives. The MauMau should’ve sought judgement through the UN and reached out to blacks all over the world. We must unite and seek REAL justice- whatever that may be.
The Mau Mau was an outlawed organization from the 50s till the early 2000s, when the newly elected president, Mwai Kibaki officially recognized them as heroes of the nation. They couldn't achieve much as an outlawed organization. But their efforts were still recognized in independent Kenya. We have roads in Nairobi which had been named after Mau Mau fighters and other agitators of self rule, during the period when the Mau Mau was an outlawed organization, something that I've never understood.
Black people have no real leverage to extract true justice.We have to accept verbal apologies,comemorative ceremonies,Museums and documentaries as restitution, long after the crimes were committed and the perpetrators deceased.Other groups like the Jews and Japanese received the type justice that matters - money!
Why is it that so many British people refuse to pronounce African names, e.g. Kenya, the way they should be spoken according to the people who belong there, but insist on the anglicised 'Keenya'? It seems to me it is a continuation of colonial superiority complex.
Absolutely fabulous documentary once again great work from Aljazeera English. I find the torture details shocking but it is good that at long last these elderly Kenyans have been listened to and proven their claims are true. I know there are always criticisms of the courts but when they get it right like on this occasion it is wonderful to witness proper justice. The British government were wrong to cover up the truth for so long.
I'm so happy for them. They have such beautiful hearts and souls. Good on them. They fought their dignity and freedom they had lost at young age. Healing is amazing. I'm glad they got a good outcome for themselves and people who had already died. I can't believe that British soldiers were committing such unimaginable crimes. Horrible..horrible.
hurts to see the real heroes are the ones still suffering up to now , while some people like the kenyattas have land that should belong to this people. disappointing
Anytime I watch,meet my elders sickily due to this injuries or even think of how the freedom fighters were mistreated,my mistrust of the white man deepens deeper
How would Europeans become so brutal and ruthless to a people so humble and harmless! And you are still pushing us through capitalism which is defining the neo-colonial process, surely no gasp of remorsefulness!
Really? Just because you don't like capitalism, doesn't make it neo-colonialism. And btw, most Africans prefer capitalism. Just mention all communist and socialist nations and compare them with the rest of us capitalists, INCOMPARABLE! However, you reserve the right to your own opinion, and I respect it as so.
Say it loud the masters were the British. In Kenya the British were the real butchers. The Kenyans never sat foot on British shores. You British did as invaders and looters
i learned a little more about the world. i hope that these old people get some kind of compensations so that their families will at least be able to live comfortably.
Good you introduced western education to us,Revenge is on it's way,you can do this to our grandpas and assume that all is fine and over,their blood is still fresh in us,their spirit is still swinging over here,never take an African as easy as sukumawiki
I am in awe of the mental, emotional strength and will of these incredible people - superhuman truly. So much to be learned from the strength of their heart. Thank you for this reporting @aljazeera
My Father the late Pastor Gad Gikonyo was one of the Hola detainees and am proud of him for standing up against colonial oppression and later satanic oppression in our country Kenya
Jomo Kenyatta truly suffered for Kenya's independence but the problem came when he accepted terms which most freedom fighters who were not cowards won't have accepted. This I think was the mistake of trusting colonial chiefs because of their wealth and influence. Of note is that these traitors were the only ones who received the white man's education. Kenya being a crown colony won't have received independence that early. Our independence would have come later than even Zimbabwe or even South Africa and Namibia and if we didn't fight we would be still under them. Credit to the generation who are now in their nineties for giving their lives for the present generation.
@@africanexplorermagazine Jomo was a traitor and you have every right to hate him for stealing land. But it was Jomo that made Africans realize that they were living like slaves (which Africans at the time thought was normal because the settlers had been around for about 40 years). Jomo rallied people around Mt. Kenya, got what he wanted and then turned his back on the Mau Mau. But he was one of the people behind the Mau Mau movement (for selfish reasons, I believe), along with Achieng Oneko and others. This Info is from Mau Mau survivors and you can listen to them on a UA-cam channel called 'Mau Mau Chronicles'
@@kiturselassie813 thats what whites do spot one person give them goodies to bring everything to an end but thr don't know we have laws of nature why do you think thousands died of corona yet they had everything .Even when you an african stay in europe they don't treat you equally .But God is a just God!Europe without its industries is nothing being too industrialized is also a disadvantage now fuel has gone up with no energy the inflation will hit the roof this comfortable life is going to change.Last time i went shopping beans were all gone which hadly happens.
It was very hard for me to see this, and hear the stories of the survivors. I have always loved the stories from the" freedom fighters" in Kenya# Uhuru Sasa
.my grandfather was one of the may MAU organizers in central Kenya, he died in 1988 and still believed that MAU MAU hastened the freedom for the back man
I have to remember the amount of work and effort the British colonists put in from the time they arrived to try to make the colony profitable good bad or indifferent it was a lot of work and I think now looking at the rubble that it was Zimbabwe we can all appreciate what happens when that work is smashed and how much effort it would be to restore it to what it once was.
The total disrespect by colonial British government towards the Land and Freedom fighters is unbelievable, outrageous! They had the nerve to call them "gangs", after they were trying to steal the country and then condemned the true owners of the land! Killing the people etc. The very nerve, so racist!
I had not realised how brutal and savage the British had been until now. But the French were much much worse, and their savagery has continued to date.
It is extremely sad barbaric the atrocities that the poor suffered under strangers foreigners who had no business in people's lands...n the poor still suffering today by their own unconscious wicked govts. Can't imagine the shame n pain that these particular people endured. while the evidence sat in the basement
They , THE BRITISH COLONIALISTS DID NOT KILL THE AFRICAN SPIRIT with all the ruthlessness & atrocious acts against a People who were demanding respect & wanted to live in dignity FULL FREEDOM. Africa needs to rethink, reconsider her relationship with Colonialists.
I learnt some days back that the name MAU MAU was initiated by kenyans freedom fighters which meant " mzungu aende kwao mwafrika apate uhuru ". Which is which?
Mzungu bado adui zenu. Niyeye shetani wa kumtesa mweusi milele na milele this mutants have caused only evil pain and sufferings to peaceful natives wherever they go worldwide
To create an illusion that the mau mau were the good guys is misleading. Why did their own new government not accept them for 50years after they won independence? Because the mau mau tortured and murdered 1,000s. Two wrongs don’t make a right but neither should we forget the whole story. The truth is hard to accept when you find you don’t have the moral high ground.
Both side? They only killed enemies of black people. In the event where the enemy is black, Good riddance. Those are the type of black people who sold black people to the Europeans for few cowrie shells
On behalf of myself,my nation of Apache Nation USA & our families;We are sorry about the very atrocious treatment of all parts of Africa,especially Kenya.❤
Thise left myself and my siblings grow upp without father love since he dead With bulet in his back which could NOT be done operation.......
We grieve with the people of Ukraine, as we would of all peoples that suffer persecution from oppressive regimes and races. However should the world care more when those who suffer are of the same race and heritage of those who institutionalized oppression?. Where are the cries of outrage when the peoples of Africa demand to be given that which is theirs, when they are killed as vermin for even thinking or vocalizing these demands. Are we to suffer the same fate as our native American and Australian brothers. A lion cub is killed quite easily, but not so a mature lion who is wary of abuse and has lost all fear of the abuser, Africa Unight, for in unity there is strength, let the lions of Africa roar with one voice, Africa for Africans at home and abroad.
No, you people are not sorry.
You people? You suck!
Blesset 🙏
My mom who is still alive is one of them. She is a very proud mau mau fighter. She narrates to us the reason she is unable to read or write is because she refused to attend school in order to supply food to men who were fighting and more so because education was seen as conforming to a white man way of life. We call her an iron lady. To this day at 90, she is very sharp and quick witted.
this is beautiful, bless your mamas soul, truly a hero, and a mother to us all.
This is so very sad. I'm only just (at the age of 41) learning about this. This should be taught in British schools so people are aware of the horrific events in history
And your mother is right. The education system is conformatism. More than anything, that’s what it ingrains. Bless your mother and all
Zero education. Sounds like an idiot to me
@@Whatsahandle4 what are you referring to?
The level of patience and understanding that some of the torture survivors have is unbelievable.
They don't hate, and aren't bitter. They simply want recognition of the injustice they suffered, and just compensation for it, so they can get closure.
I still do not understand how Britain has not paid for all the crimes they committed in Africa.
As far as they are concerned the world and all thats in it is theirs. They and their kind are the producers of the weapons of war that allow them to exert their will on peaceful people the world over, to plunder and pillage and gather to themselves, for empire and county. It is in their nature, coded into their very DNA. Just read European history to know that whats happening today is but the latest chapter. The only difference is the world now watches in real time, and many views weaken the propaganda that is normally vomited out.
The crimes of the British colonial masters shall never go unforgotten.I recall the stories from my ancestors the trauma left on our Kenyan & African people cannot be bribed by any amount to be forgotten. Malipo ni hapa hapa duniani.
My grandfather was among the last people to be released from Hola camp,he died shortly after. My grand mother was shot on the leg as she attempted to take food to the forest for the Mau Mau. She still bear the scar on her right calf to this day. when I see her and the atrocities she witnessed I feel as if I went through them myself.
PIGS!! It is they who are SAVAGES...
@@leydenfisher7807 it is they who defend their land from pirate and invading hoarders, you beastly woman.
The 1956 movie “Safari “ touched on the subject of Mau Mau. From what I can recall they were considered a band of terrorists in that film. Victor Mature and Janet Leigh were the main stars.
the imperialist english have always called the colonised savages yet it was the english who carried out all the savagery.
Very much like what happened with the natives of our own country. Many here considered them savages as well.
The dignity these broken people display is admirable. I hope they get something out of how horrific they were treated......just awful. Bless them all.
our grandmother with 8 children was taken while looking some veg in her fram, and by that time my grandfather was arrested too and our Grandmother was not seen again but we will meet again in the New Kingdom.
I have spent the better part of this year going back to my roots. I've read every material I have found about MAUMAU and watched every documentary about the same. I have listened to stories of people who have information on the same passed to them by word of mouth by their forefathers.
And to date, I still do not comprehend exactly why the British put our freedom fighters through this. I've cried so many times just listening to some of the torture they were put through. Inhumane is an understatement.
We surely didn't deserve this freedom fighter.
Kenyatta should be ashamed for not honoring them!
Long live Maumau💔
good on you wanjiru.. we shall always remember and honor these heroes.
You have truly stated something significant at the last sentence down there, they should be ashamed!!
I remember being told of the uprising by my mother and today my wife and I mentioned it in the context of a film ..hence I watched this documentary and yet again I am ashamed of the colour of my skin and what my ancestors and country did ...
As a student of Development studies and Politics , it is to myself the horrendous continuation of the belief that one human being has the right to subjugate another ..to remove dignity, liberty and power and gain profit from it in the form of land and money ..
Although there was an eventual legal victory , this country still hides it insidiously from its children and hence it's history . To do this perpetuates the crime
My dad is 82. He took his first oath (tricked into doing it as were most other people) while on holiday from high school, which would be in the early 50s. When he narrates the stories from those days, he mentions the murdered victims by name, like X, son of Y, the way Kikuyu identified themselves back in the day. It makes it very palpable and real to me. When I drive him upcountry, he loves to tell tales of memorable things that happened at different places along the way, like pointing out areas that used to have bandits, or a spot where a mad man tried holding a falling tree after it had been struck by lightning and got crushed by it to death, etc. There's also stories about spots where people were deliberately ran over by British soldiers driving their Jeeps or Land Rovers - I don't remember which. Or this poor man who was used as a human shield by a colonial officer, who had strapped the man to his vehicle door, such that the man was hanging outside the driver's door, strapped on to the body of the moving vehicle, so that should a freedom fighter (the British called them terrorists, but we call them freedom heroes) hiding in the bushes by the roadside fire at the vehicle, the poor man would get hit instead of the colonial officer. My dad knew that man by name. My dad had cousins who were little kids then, playing out in the grass when they noticed tufts of grass getting uprooted from the ground and flying up in the air before falling again as if by an invisible being. They rushed in to tell their aunt to come out and see the 'miracle'. The invisible hand behind the uprooting turned out to be bullets from a sniper's gun. We're talking about kids about ten years old.
That's what the British were doing in Kenya and treating our grandparents worse than they treated their pets or livestock. I have no hate against the British, but I just do not understand how a people who claim to be civil would act like this to another people who welcomed them into their country and were hospitable to the comers. And to think that such people still exist today...
My granddad went to the bush to join maumau, leaving my dad and his two siblings, all under ten with my grandma. My grandma was forced to live in the colonial ' gichagi' village and work 5 days on colonial coffee farms for free. The kids were left to fend for themselves in the prison like village until their parents returned in the evening from the coffee plantations. My grand father's youngest brother was captured and tortured and was in prison even after independence later confined in a mental institution for over 20 years. Later I learnt after pressuring my elders for what happened to their brother, I was told the British had tortured him upto castration!. The man was not the same after that. He spent most of the rest of his life in mental institutions, only to come back home old and ready to die. So sad the British talk of fighting Hitler, when at the SAME period their did atrocities to blacks, who only wanted to live on their own land. This happenned after the current queen took the reigns! Her terror still has scars today.
Yes, they do still exist, taking advantage through their contracts and NGOs. Even though u have forgiven, don't forget! Pass it on to your kids, that is what your parents did for you.
Well the power structure of the British and the other thieves in Western Europe is evil so it mattered not whether Kenyans native Americans, indigenous Australians and the like we're peaceful and hospitable. The bottom line is that evil people do evil things. Very unfortunate to know that your family was directly impacted.
and they still are doing it even now we arent liberated
Thanks family needed to hear that.
They let this drag out until the guilty died off after enjoying full lives.
The MauMau should’ve sought judgement through the UN and reached out to blacks all over the world.
We must unite and seek REAL justice- whatever that may be.
The Mau Mau was an outlawed organization from the 50s till the early 2000s, when the newly elected president, Mwai Kibaki officially recognized them as heroes of the nation. They couldn't achieve much as an outlawed organization. But their efforts were still recognized in independent Kenya. We have roads in Nairobi which had been named after Mau Mau fighters and other agitators of self rule, during the period when the Mau Mau was an outlawed organization, something that I've never understood.
Black people have no real leverage to extract true justice.We have to accept verbal apologies,comemorative ceremonies,Museums and documentaries as restitution, long after the crimes were committed and the perpetrators deceased.Other groups like the Jews and Japanese received the type justice that matters - money!
Why is it that so many British people refuse to pronounce African names, e.g. Kenya, the way they should be spoken according to the people who belong there, but insist on the anglicised 'Keenya'? It seems to me it is a continuation of colonial superiority complex.
Pausing this for a while, cannot continue, it's too graphic.
Britain was practicing Hitlerism in Kenya while fighting it in Germany!
Lest we forget the pain and human rights abuses perpetrated by the British government in Kenya.
It's not over they left black colonialists using shoot to kill they pick up our boys because they are poor
What a harrowing story to tell, yet done so in such a delicate manner. Let's hope they receive the apology and reparation they justly deserve.
Absolutely fabulous documentary once again great work from Aljazeera English. I find the torture details shocking but it is good that at long last these elderly Kenyans have been listened to and proven their claims are true. I know there are always criticisms of the courts but when they get it right like on this occasion it is wonderful to witness proper justice. The British government were wrong to cover up the truth for so long.
I'm so happy for them. They have such beautiful hearts and souls.
Good on them. They fought their dignity and freedom they had lost at young age. Healing is amazing.
I'm glad they got a good outcome for themselves and people who had already died. I can't believe that British soldiers were committing such unimaginable crimes. Horrible..horrible.
hurts to see the real heroes are the ones still suffering up to now , while some people like the kenyattas have land that should belong to this people. disappointing
Yeah Not just them but also foreign companies owning tracks of land in the former white highlands!
This case shows who is the real savage. Reparations now.
how
Anytime I watch,meet my elders sickily due to this injuries or even think of how the freedom fighters were mistreated,my mistrust of the white man deepens deeper
Same here. My grandparents are victims
Indeed it is sooooo terribly heartbreaking!
How would Europeans become so brutal and ruthless to a people so humble and harmless! And you are still pushing us through capitalism which is defining the neo-colonial process, surely no gasp of remorsefulness!
Really? Just because you don't like capitalism, doesn't make it neo-colonialism. And btw, most Africans prefer capitalism. Just mention all communist and socialist nations and compare them with the rest of us capitalists, INCOMPARABLE!
However, you reserve the right to your own opinion, and I respect it as so.
@@raymondkanga what do you pride in capitalism?
Approximately two million Kikuyus died at the hands of the colonial masters.
Say it loud the masters were the British. In Kenya the British were the real butchers.
The Kenyans never sat foot on British shores. You British did as invaders and looters
i learned a little more about the world. i hope that these old people get some kind of compensations so that their families will at least be able to live comfortably.
It should START with the Kenyan Government. What a Betrayal!
i can see kethi kilonzo,good job for helping the elderly get justice.
Powerful recollection of Detailed Undeniable Facts against Kenyans/ Our People.
The worst happened after british left read of Baimungi's story
a very sad one indeed.
Good you introduced western education to us,Revenge is on it's way,you can do this to our grandpas and assume that all is fine and over,their blood is still fresh in us,their spirit is still swinging over here,never take an African as easy as sukumawiki
So why would you take revenge on innocent children of guilty parents and grandparents?
That's a very barbaric mindset.
@@raymondkanga revenge is a must. You have no clue of how paining it is. So shut your ugly mouth
I am in awe of the mental, emotional strength and will of these incredible people - superhuman truly. So much to be learned from the strength of their heart. Thank you for this reporting @aljazeera
Truth and reconciliation must be done to all the thousands, loyalists have also to apologise
My Father the late Pastor Gad Gikonyo was one of the Hola detainees and am proud of him for standing up against colonial oppression and later satanic oppression in our country Kenya
The Satanic OPPRESSION STILL exists today, the largest form being the Xtian ReLEGION and ITS _LORD_. The white man is still EnThroned in our MINDS 🛐
My Dad witnessed war while young! And I have never saw him on Television, and way he knows how to narrate!
They mentioned only leaders
Jomo Kenyatta truly suffered for Kenya's independence but the problem came when he accepted terms which most freedom fighters who were not cowards won't have accepted. This I think was the mistake of trusting colonial chiefs because of their wealth and influence. Of note is that these traitors were the only ones who received the white man's education. Kenya being a crown colony won't have received independence that early. Our independence would have come later than even Zimbabwe or even South Africa and Namibia and if we didn't fight we would be still under them. Credit to the generation who are now in their nineties for giving their lives for the present generation.
Jomo Kenyatta was a traitor do you research before posting mediocrity on the internet.
@@africanexplorermagazine absolutely he was a traitor
@@africanexplorermagazine Jomo was a traitor and you have every right to hate him for stealing land. But it was Jomo that made Africans realize that they were living like slaves (which Africans at the time thought was normal because the settlers had been around for about 40 years). Jomo rallied people around Mt. Kenya, got what he wanted and then turned his back on the Mau Mau. But he was one of the people behind the Mau Mau movement (for selfish reasons, I believe), along with Achieng Oneko and others. This Info is from Mau Mau survivors and you can listen to them on a UA-cam channel called 'Mau Mau Chronicles'
This kenyatta was a British puppet,he was also not kikuyu he was a traitor in all forms.
@@kiturselassie813 thats what whites do spot one person give them goodies to bring everything to an end but thr don't know we have laws of nature why do you think thousands died of corona yet they had everything .Even when you an african stay in europe they don't treat you equally .But God is a just God!Europe without its industries is nothing being too industrialized is also a disadvantage now fuel has gone up with no energy the inflation will hit the roof this comfortable life is going to change.Last time i went shopping beans were all gone which hadly happens.
I wish they would teach these stories in British schools.
Well said "redred"...couldn't be put better let them see it on visual screens also
It was very hard for me to see this, and hear the stories of the survivors. I have always loved the stories from the" freedom fighters" in Kenya# Uhuru Sasa
Where are the human rights. It's sad the British was not held accountable for their actions.
Good job AlJazzeeraEnglish on the reporting.
This is the kind of forgiveness and reconciliation we need in the world esp in the Middle East, Congo, Somalia and balkans.
Wah may God heal the hearts of our people.
This is VERY SAD! SO SAD!
evil rots from the inside out. Karma is a bitch...
hate to hear the abuse of the British were so brutal. They were savages
.my grandfather was one of the may MAU organizers in central Kenya, he died in 1988 and still believed that MAU MAU hastened the freedom for the back man
I have to remember the amount of work and effort the British colonists put in from the time they arrived to try to make the colony profitable good bad or indifferent it was a lot of work and I think now looking at the rubble that it was Zimbabwe we can all appreciate what happens when that work is smashed and how much effort it would be to restore it to what it once was.
The total disrespect by colonial British government towards the Land and Freedom fighters is unbelievable, outrageous! They had the nerve to call them "gangs", after they were trying to steal the country and then condemned the true owners of the land! Killing the people etc. The very nerve, so racist!
I had not realised how brutal and savage the British had been until now.
But the French were much much worse, and their savagery has continued to date.
It is extremely sad barbaric the atrocities that the poor suffered under strangers foreigners who had no business in people's lands...n the poor still suffering today by their own unconscious wicked govts. Can't imagine the shame n pain that these particular people endured. while the evidence sat in the basement
They , THE BRITISH COLONIALISTS DID NOT KILL THE AFRICAN SPIRIT with all the ruthlessness & atrocious acts against a People who were demanding respect & wanted to live in dignity FULL FREEDOM. Africa needs to rethink, reconsider her relationship with Colonialists.
I learnt some days back that the name MAU MAU was initiated by kenyans freedom fighters which meant " mzungu aende kwao mwafrika apate uhuru ". Which is which?
All this happened fresh after Hitler’s defeat. Is there any even in history, that is more ironic?
Mzungu bado adui zenu. Niyeye shetani wa kumtesa mweusi milele na milele this mutants have caused only evil pain and sufferings to peaceful natives wherever they go worldwide
No one told us in class this it was how tough it was...so bad
The history we we're taught in school was very skewed
...but the character here is exposed and no amount of money will ever cover that incident or other colonized activities.
I wonder if the Mau Mau ever paid compensation to their fellow Kenyans for the Liri massacre?
Thanks utube for your fact's 🦍❣️
We African's the Diaspora are to forgiving. We don't forgive our own people for past and present evils done to us
Britain has no moral to teach how badly they treated in Kenya when that done same thing in India sometime l think they are not human beings
Am sorry this aint 'last battle' such sleezy payment such miniscule Kimathi memorial is a total mockery! Ridiculous
but they taught him to us ..them ..the same people that did the opposite that was in the book...i just can't understand this world..
Sad story, and the unfortunately we have the chinese trying to take over
very sad affair.....this has already happened in zambia....their leaders sold their land. Its a chinese state as we speak. Sooo devastating
Mau mau gîkuyû na mûmbî fight for freedom and land but the land goes with those supported colonies
see, the queen was a nice old lady. polite, too! /s
To create an illusion that the mau mau were the good guys is misleading. Why did their own new government not accept them for 50years after they won independence? Because the mau mau tortured and murdered 1,000s. Two wrongs don’t make a right but neither should we forget the whole story. The truth is hard to accept when you find you don’t have the moral high ground.
How about what these same Anglo-Saxons did to the Native Americans?
Was that at the hands of that witched that just died?
Yeap.
Funny enough she was in Kenya when her Father died and her son proposed to Kate here
Yeah they castrated poor men, my uncle was one of them. They were all doing the right thing, UK 🇬🇧 put yourself in their feet,what would you hv done?
I love how they say I was born in the year of the drought, its like the Asian I was born the year of the frog, so much cooler
This is inhuman
my land is kenya,.
Am remnants of mau mau
therefore what is your conclusion Mr Szeklerdude?
It's all about the money
13:45
pink terror !
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The mau mau killed and tortured 1000s of Kenyans and others . They need to show both sides but no$$$$ in that.
They killed traitors. People that were working with the British to oppress Kenyans. Smh
Both side? They only killed enemies of black people. In the event where the enemy is black, Good riddance. Those are the type of black people who sold black people to the Europeans for few cowrie shells
so what?????????
Its sad yes, but they did their duty for God Queen and Country. They have suffered as well. Though compensations may well come.
They never payed for their Colonial crime. By the end of this Century we shall revisit
@@nairobinyeusi5811 Are you coming to live in Europe like a lot of other Africans then?
@@jonnyh9388 There is no need karma will hit you and your descendants
Yes they did their job for your savage queen and country lol
@@nairobinyeusi5811 respect 👏🏿🙌🙏👌🏻
Why are they wearing white man's clothes