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As a child growing up in The Netherlands, I saw the poverty and the destruction after the German occupation 1940-45. During the war, my parents listened to the BBC which was an inspiration of hope, longing for freedom. The newscast would begin with the sound of the Big Ben and a few words of encouragement from Winston Churchill. The news was larded with secret messages for the Dutch underground. Not all deeds of sabotage were successful, sometimes with an unduly heavy price of retaliation by the German Gestapo and SS troops. The fifties were years of a renewed building of Dutch society. There were moments International news was so important, this would be discussed in the small town where we lived. One memory of fear were the horrible attacks by the Mau Mau in Africa. I wasn’t aware of the propaganda machine of the British Empire …
Scotland Yard investigates Mau Mau ‘atrocities’
Mau Mau – or the Land and Freedom Army, as they called themselves – have waited a very long time to receive recognition. Their attacks on white settlers threw colonial society into panic and Britain imposed a state of emergency in 1952. Yet despite their obvious role in fighting for independence, no Kenyan Government has previously been prepared to lift the ban. This is because the Mau Mau rebellion was, at least in part, a civil war.
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"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."
