The monarch will talk vaguely about ‘wrongs’ on his first official visit as head of state to a Commonwealth country. This blindness about the violence of empire must stop
Claimants Jane Muthoni Mara, Wambugu Wa Nyingi and Paulo Muoka Nzili celebrate in Nairobi after the 2012 high court ruling allowing them to proceed with compensation claims against the UK government.Claimants Jane Muthoni Mara, Wambugu Wa Nyingi and Paulo Muoka Nzili celebrate in Nairobi after the 2012 high court ruling allowing them to proceed with compensation claims against the UK government.
Media coverage was widespread. Headlines splashed daily revelations, including, after the claimants’ repeated demands for document disclosure, the British government’s “discovery” of 300 boxes of previously undisclosed files at Hanslope Park, the fortress-like warehouse for top-secret government files. Efforts to cover up British crimes did not end there.
First, King Charles III, you need to stop choking on those two words, “I apologise”. Just cough them up. They will probably trigger all sorts of liability issues for you and your government, but at last count, the monarchy is worth over £20bn, so you could give several quid – some of which were stolen from, or earned on the backs of, colonised peoples – to the British taxpayer to cover this.
In the case of Kenya, your mother bestowed honours upon war criminals. Among them was Terence Gavaghan, the architect of the “dilution technique”, or systematised violence used to “break” detainees. He was made an MBE, as was John Cowan, his lieutenant, for his role in crafting the “Cowan plan”, which led to the beating to death of 11 detainees.
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