Reddit reviews Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
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It's always good to remember that genocides did not end after WWII.
Brits murdered and tortured hundreds of thousands people Kenya in 1953-1960 Those murderers are still living today. It's amazing how easily Brits have been able to get away all the murdering they have done.
The story is told in book Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya. Book won Pulizer price, but it seems that public don't know about it.
>.. tens of thousands of Kenyans were slaughtered, perhaps up to 300,000. The British also interned the entire 1.5 million population of Kikuyu, the colony's largest ethnic group, in barbed-wire villages, forced-labour reserves where famine and disease ran rampant, and prison camps that Elkins describes as the Kenyan "Gulag." The Kikuyu were subjected to unimaginable torture, or "screening," as British officials called it, which included being whipped, beaten, sodomized, castrated, burned, and forced to eat feces and drink urine. British officials later destroyed almost all official records of the campaign. Elkins infuses her account with the riveting stories of individual Kikuyu detainees, settlers, British officials, and soldiers. This is a stunning narrative that finally sheds light on a misunderstood war for which no one has yet been held officially accountable.
Because they're [crazy] (http://www.amazon.com/Imperial-Reckoning-Untold-Story-Britains/dp/0805080015/) [fucking] (http://exiledonline.com/war-nerd-tibet-five-to-one-against/) [violent] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayan_Emergency#War_crimes).
The excerpt he's referencing is from a book by Caroline Elkins, professor of history at Harvard
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The book he's referencing is fantastic. I had to read it in grad school, and loved it. Dr. Elkins just had an op-ed in the Guardian, I think, about the criticism she took for it, and how she's basically been proven right by further archival evidence.