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Thtwudbeme

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6. Slavery was not the only atrocity against our brothers and sisters. That's a pretty
Sun Sep 11, 2022, 07:26 AM
Sep 2022

easy target when we are looking at a death.

months after Elizabeth II learned of her father’s death from treetops in Kenya and became queen, British colonial authorities in Kenya suppressed a rebellion against the colonial regime known as Mau Mau, which, according to the New York Times, “led to the establishment of a vast system of detention camps and the torture, rape, castration and killing of tens of thousands of people”. The British government eventually paid £20m in a lawsuit by Kenyan survivors.


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/10/queen-death-colonies-atrocities-british-empire

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