"Four elderly Kenyans have won an important fight in their battle for compensation over horrific acts of torture. The group, all in their 80s, say they were assaulted in British-run detention camps during the country’s war of independence. They allege 'unspeakable acts of brutality' during the Mau Mau rebellion against colonial rule between 1952 and 1960." Mau Mau uprising: Kenyans to sue British Government 59 years after atrocities | Mail Online And what about the many unspeakable acts of brutality perpetrated by the Mau-Mau?
I remember the controvercy when President Obama was elected and he sent Churchill's bust back to Great Britain that was on loan to the previous administration after 9-11. It was speculated that it might have been because his grandfather (Hussein Onyango Obama) was rumored to be tortured during the rebellion, and of course it was during Churchill's second premiership.
Darren, I think somebody is "mis-remembering" something here. The bust of Sir Winston had been on loan to Bush from Tony Blair’s government, by way of the British Embassy, to show solidarity with the US post 9/11. And it didn’t go back to Britain either, but back to the Embassy from whence it came. It was removed before Obama’s inauguration as part of the normal changeover operations in the Oval office. It hadn’t been sent to him, but to Bush after all. Bush wasn’t there anymore, so it was replaced with a bust of another great man; the Republican A. Lincoln (Obama’s historical hero I’ve heard).
