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Documents released in the UK confirm that torture of detainees were authorized at the highest levels in the 1950s against Mau Mau rebels. Anchor Marco Werman gets details from Caroline Elkins, professor of African history at Harvard University.
Imperial Reckoning (Book Cover)
New documents released in the United Kingdom confirm that torture and other abuses of detainees were authorized at the highest levels in the 1950s, during a counter-insurgency campaign in Kenya. Kenya was then a British colony and Mau Mau rebels wanted them out. Anchor Marco Werman gets details from Caroline Elkins, professor of African history at Harvard University.