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Mau Mau to sue UK for compensation
Mau Mau spokesman, Mr Gitu Kahengeri (centre) addresses the press at a Nairobi hotel on Sunday. With him are the movement’s lawyers Paul Muite and Dan Leader of Leigh Day and Co solicitors from London. The veterans will file a reparation suit in London on June 23. Photo/PAUL WAWERU
Posted Sunday, May 10 2009 at 17:32
The much anticipated lawsuit against the British government for the atrocities committed against freedom fighters in Kenya during the colonial period will be filed next month.
The Kenya Human Rights Commission has instructed London-based solicitors, Leigh Day & Co to commence the process.
If successful, it would lead to the compensation of the surviving freedom fighters.
This comes in the wake of claims of massive human rights violations against the Mau Mau fighters by the British government like torture and unlawful detentions. They were committed during the emergency period in the 1950s and 60s.
And on Sunday, the human rights lobby, through its acting deputy Executive Director Tom Kagwe said the suit will be filed at the British High Court on June 23.
Mr Kagwe told a news conference in Nairobi that they had already documented 40 of gross human rights violations against the freedom fighters.
Most of the cases were said to have been carried out by rogue British officers from policies which were sanctioned at the highest levels of their government.
Mr Dan Leader, a lawyer with Leigh Day & Co added: “What we now want is that the British apologise for the wrongs committed at the time and compensate survivors of the Mau Mau movement.”
Lawyer Paul Muite said apart from the compensation, the freedom fighters will also be seeking to regain the respect and dignity they lost as a result of the atrocities.
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Submitted by HillaryioPosted May 11, 2009 09:04 AM
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Submitted by MFIM2009
Muite will kula your money. he is there for only that! get yourself another one.
Posted May 11, 2009 12:03 AM -
Submitted by ogweny
But what bout fellow africans and the britons that the mau mau slaughtered? Phoebe asiyo adopted two girls whose parents were wipe by the mau mau gang. are the mau mau going to pay raparations for those also. how can a terror gang be copesated for killing its own ppl
Posted May 10, 2009 10:43 PM
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With all due respect to the Mau Mau fighters, I think this is a lost battle. Just give it up, you are not going to receive a single cent from the British. Lets say, the dismiss the entire thing as a joke, what is Kenya preparing to do? Invade Britain or take them to ICC? Wacheni ufala!