Mass Poverty and Social Inequality: India’s “Independence” for Whom and From What?
By Colin Todhunter | July 30, 2013
British Empire
£3K to torture victims ‘isn’t much’: British MP
Press TV – June 9, 2013
British Respect party MP George Galloway has slammed the government’s small payment of £3,000 apiece to Kenyan victims of torture and mistreatment under British colonial rule during the 1950s.
Britain pays £20m to Mau Mau victims
Morning Star | June 6, 2013
Foreign Secretary William Hague stopped short of issuing an apology today to the elderly Kenyans tortured by British colonial forces during the Mau Mau uprising.
The Mau Mau movement emerged in central Kenya during the 1950s to get back seized land and push for an end to colonial rule. Supporters were detained in camps and thousands were tortured, maimed or executed.
