Veterans demand compensation 70 year after the Mau Mau uprising | DW News

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Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her Platinum Jubilee after 70 years of service. Many in Kenya, however, would say it’s a celebration of disservice to them. It was around 70 years ago, in 1952, that the Mau Mau uprising against British colonial rule started.

As many as 90,000 Kenyans were killed or tortured. More than 160,000 were forced into concentration camps during eight years of mayhem and bloodshed. The uprising was brutally put down by British colonial forces, sowing the seeds for Kenyan independence in 1963.

After years of fighting for justice, there was a breakthrough in 2013. More than 5,000 Kenyans who’d been subjected to torture or other forms of mistreatment in the 1950s won compensation from the British government.

But thousands of claims are still pending. And some have never benefitted.

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