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Uncovering the brutal truth about the British empire
The Harvard historian Caroline Elkins stirred controversy with her work on the crushing of the Mau Mau uprising. But it laid the ground for a legal case that has transformed our view of Britain’s past. By Marc Parry.
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A good read. I would have liked to have read something more about the colonial official mentioned in the article, Terence Gavaghan. At the end of a paragraph, the author writes that "Gavaghan had developed the [dilution] technique and put it into practice." That led me to think that there would be more in the article about his role in this atrocities. I managed to find these obits http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/8758386/Terence-Gavaghan.html http://www.britishempire.co.uk/maproom/kenya/terencegavaghan.htm and a description of a BBC documentary (from 2002) called "White Terror." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/correspondent/2416049.stm
The winners always get to write history making themselves look like angels. It still goes on. A lot.
I have a friend who lives in Scotland and we have had some very interesting discussions on this very subject.