Our Guant=E1namo
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1391329,00.html
Books from David Anderson and Caroline Elkins detailing Britain's
behaviour over the Mau Mau rebellion, Histories of the Hanged and
Britain's Gulag, are starkly relevant, says Peter Preston
Sunday January 16, 2005
The Observer
Histories of the Hanged by David Anderson (Weidenfeld & Nicholson =A320,
pp406)
Britain's Gulag by Caroline Elkins (Jonathan Cape =A320, pp475)
Before there was Guant=E1namo Bay and Abu Ghraib, there was Hola and
Mwea and Manyani. Before we grow too puffed with outrage over American
arrogance and atrocity, there was Kenya in the 1950s, a permanent stain
on Britain and our erstwhile 'civilising mission' to a wider world.
Peter Preston
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/49bfac2dff24e5aa
Mau Mau
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/b689ab076ba2a470
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