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Between 1952 and 1960, Britain fought a vicious war in Kenya against the anticolonial Mau Mau movement. It was an exceptionally bloody conflict, with atrocities committed on both sides.
For decades, many of the worst abuses by British colonial forces were kept hidden.
Piecing together survivor testimonies and expert analysis from British and Kenyan historians, this film tells a complete and detailed story for the first time of how Britain was involved in systemic torture - including accounts of murders, rapes and forced castrations.
A Very British Way of Torture is a film by Ed McGown and produced by Rob Newman.
Document archive is courtesy of the UK National Archives.
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@aljazeeraenglish Год назад

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@pplopde4437 Год назад

At the the height of resistance to colonial rule in the 1950's at least 500k-1M kenyans, were tortured, killed, displaced or jailed in camps. After independence in 1963 Kenya introduced a new constitution with the help of THURGOOD MARSHALL(see "exporting american dreams" by Mary Dudziak),the first black US chief justice who was friends with Kenya's Nationalist leaders TOM MBOYA,JOMO KENYATTA and OGINGA ODINGA. The constitution protected racial minorities including white, asians/indians and arabs.

@ricfermi5886 Год назад

As long as we can comment uncensored, I'd love to watch more documentaries.

@afrikanheritage99 Год назад

Hello, thanks for your inspiring and informative documentaries 👍 How can I reach you via email?

@semambonderea8206 Год назад

Give us more and also the hidden about the evil acts of these people

@semambonderea8206 Год назад

Big thanks 👍 we appreciate... Mostly when you covered criminality that was done in Libya onto the let Muammah Gaddaffi who wanted much of unity among Arab and African nations

@vickomen3697 Год назад

The British had gulags, torture chambers, concentration camps and apartheid system. When you hear apartheid you think about SA but it was also very real in Kenya. I really hope more people and specifically Kenyans will be taught about these horrid times in their history. Also, I'm working collectively with a group of young Kenyans to document this. Happy Jamhuri Day Kenya.

@tatradak Год назад

Maybe my English relation who was one of the few whites who were allowed to stay and keep their land should explain how it was so...

@vickomen3697 Год назад

@@tatradak right now Kenya has these many ''Conservancies'': thousands of acres large where a few White ''conservationist'' families reside. You know why?

@hellenwanjiru7965 Год назад

@@vickomen3697 Because independence was a hoax Kenyatta was a sell out,He worked hand in hand with British government.

@shellibelli4387 Год назад

That would make for an interesting documentary.

@kennethkinyanjuindungu871 Год назад

Would love to join your efforts

@gakii.muthuri Год назад

My grandmother used to tell me how they(the women) would go to Mt Kenya forest and leave food at a certain place so that the maumau who was mostly their husbands and fathers would not starve.... I feel so emotional watching this coz it hits home. She passed on in December 2021 and May God keep resting her soul in peace🕊️

@Njeri_123 Год назад

May her soul rest in eternal peace. 🙏

@joashwambua9988 Год назад

@oliviamonteque6407 Год назад

@@Njeri_123 really!

@jonathankaranja5857 Год назад

Sasa Gakii,,pia mimi nilisikia kutoka nyanya fulani eti walikuwa hata wanalazimishwa kula matoke mbichi.

@daisymumbi Год назад

This is true my grand ma told me the same

@Mazillah 8 месяцев назад

As a South Sudanese who have read a lot about colonialism in books especially in Kenya I can sincerely confirm that the history is much shallow in books than how it it actually,This video need to be showed to every student doing history in school.Much much love Kenya.

@Thegreatestofalltime1998 6 месяцев назад

Thank you 😊💕 very here is the upcoming Kenyan historian who is determined to change the perspectives of the new generation towards colonization and neuclonialism 🎉🎉

@abukaribrahim4484 26 дней назад

Am Kenyan student and nothing was taught us about the atrocities of the colonisers. Nothing.

@richardsanjose3692 23 дня назад

Yeah you're right. It seems man's inhumanity to his fellow man is the same and never changes. It's just whoever has their foot on top of the other one and they don't see it as torture

@KarlaBedminister 3 дня назад

@@abukaribrahim4484It was deliberately removed so the generation who knew may not tell you and you not knowing your history will ignorantly make bad future choices to put your family in danger and then eventually they'll make the same mistakes over and over enabling recolonization in a more modern way.

@ashton1952 Год назад

The immense courage of those who finally stood up and said "no" to the abuse and dehumanizing, is a powerful message to anyone anywhere suffering similar things. It is almost like the eleven martyrs opened the door in the heavenly realm for their entire nation to be freed. Thank you for bringing us this history of Kenya 🙏

@pattyoconnell1953 Год назад

Amen

@mrb2643 8 месяцев назад

They are still doing this today under a different flag...called anti terrorism, invading and killing non white lands

@mirenka24 6 месяцев назад

And thats why world has to stand with Palestine🍉

@oliviajanzkordell4491 16 дней назад

spare us the maudlin sop ... remember what the colonialists achieved in Kenya and the systems they established ! compare with what the situation is today .... some of the top class schools that they built are now only a shadow of themselves ... same with grubby Nairobi and other cities !

@michaelmwangi5052 Год назад

As someone from Mt Kenya where the rebellion began, I'm glad that my grandmother who was part of the struggle and all these freedom fighters got to outlive some of those who authorized these atrocities. We'll never forget. God bless Kenya🇰🇪

@misssexandsafari Год назад

Amen.

@thomaskristensen4679 Год назад

Reggie: All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? Xerxes: Brought peace?

@michaelmwangi5052 Год назад

@@thomaskristensen4679 Are you justifying what they did?

@David-og7di Год назад

@@michaelmwangi5052 I think he is white.

@patohunja7981 Год назад

@@rxgames172 People from western nyanza and ukambani were hired by British colonists as soldiers and domestic workers

@NdondoMicheal Год назад

It flips the script as to whom is uncivilized. That was a strong line.

@drewbranch7700 Год назад

Even when I was kid I used to scoff that “civilized “ notion about the British yet we were taught about their heinous crimes across the globe. The temerity of it;more like, the utter pretentiousness yet narcissism of the British.

@arawiri Год назад

I reckon

@peterpan1435 Год назад

@@drewbranch7700 The British had to endure torture by the Vikings, Romans, Normans.

@skalet66a Год назад

@@peterpan1435 The British Are the Normans (and to some extent, the Vikings as well)

@drewbranch7700 Год назад

@@peterpan1435Fascinating,is this your attempt to manufacture an excuse,talk about a futile premise on your end.🤔

@Outrageous_fault Год назад

Gavaghan’s interview gave me chills. His body language shows he is lying. My grandfather was a mau mau oathist. He imprisoned in Manyani for over 7 years. His wives and children were also detained, beaten, property stolen and suffered. As a result my family is separated and divided. No one speaks about the generational trauma and effects that continues until today. There are lost generations. Our grandparents, our parents and ourselves. Broken families, alcoholism, psychological and emotional damage. I wish someone could make a documentary about this. I wish we could talk about this.

@rahabwanjiru8803 7 месяцев назад

We are a product of this colonial trauma. Our grandparents and parents were damaged and wounded, never healed and here we are carrying the same wounds. I also hope someone can try to find out the effects of colonialism on families, psychological effects etc.

@kim1570 6 месяцев назад

@@rahabwanjiru8803 Absolutely. This is one of the most important conversations we need to be having.

@casteretpollux Месяц назад

Sending hugs, comfort and tears for what you all have gone through and are going through. And deep thanks to all who have acted for human liberation.

@omolaniayanshola4278 Год назад

I'm not even Kenyan but as an African this really hit home as though my country Nigeria where once British colonial country and I can't help but to cry for the tortured and suffering our four fathers had gone through for us to live i am so proud of thier resilience even though it cost many thier lifes may the deaths rest in eternity and May the spirit of our ancestors never leaf us god bless Africa

@grase09 Год назад

My grandmother was so traumatized by her experience in the labor camps that she would break down at any instance of prompting memories of that dark period. I will never forget the sacrifice made by our forefathers for the sake of this country. I never thought it was this bad... not at all.

@sumayyahadetunmbi4347 Год назад

Oh this is terrible, I hope your grandma is doing okay. Wishing her the best of health

@ben33584 Год назад

Bad? It was far worse than what they show u here...some footage won't be shown for fear of sparking a revolution..

@africaisking7817 Год назад

White People smh.

@jonathankaranja5857 Год назад

Then there was this story about the Hola massacre (the 11 detainees), remember that story?

@thetoughlove 6 месяцев назад

Your grandmother is a legend to be celebrated by all Kenyans..when we speak about mashujaa day I know it her and other who went through the traumatic ordeal that I am celebrating...show her love on my behalf

@human8454 Год назад

As an indian i can feel their pain.we support Kenya.😭

@thomaskristensen4679 Год назад

Every Hindu should wake up every day and thank the gods that the British freed India from Muslim rule.

@ayodejiolowokere1076 Год назад

@@thomaskristensen4679 rubbish. The Mughal Empire had been supplanted by the Hindu Marathas well before the British invasion.

@badlav120 Год назад

@@thomaskristensen4679 than , what should we do to those who divided my country on the basis of religion ? Should we punish them or forgive them ? So called Britishers

@hasanaliqadri1508 Год назад

@@thomaskristensen4679 and thanks the British for looting trillions of wealth and millions of death by creating artificial drought and dividing India on religious lines and still the British glorious loot and human rights violation going on around the world.

@behroozajang1296 Год назад

But some Indian were hired and foughts in behalf of british army in Africa and else where .

@kausalyabahadur7667 Год назад

Thank God for the freedom fighters. I'm a descendant of Indian indentured laborers from Guyana. I'm now learning my own history and will devote the rest of my life making sure that colonial atrocities all the the world do not get forgotten. How much heartache can one endure. We owe it to our ancestors to tell the story.

@frankyyaggabot6222 4 месяца назад

So you are a colonist? How many indigenous leaders of Guayna have there been - not many (zero actually) - ethnic Chinese, Indians, Africans - none of which is a native to Guyana and yet you hold political power over the natives. Hypocrisy much?

@rickjames21 Год назад

I am 37 years old and remember reading and learning about the Mau Mau movement back in primary school in Lusaka. Thank you so much for this documentary. I had no idea how bad it was for our African brothers and sisters.

@jean6872 Год назад

I was a European white boy during the Mau Mau crisis and I recall being afraid of Africans.

@bendtnerimaerot3813 Год назад

And someone here still supporting England to win world cup

@yamomma6479 Год назад

@@jean6872 why? Only Europeans have proven to be bloodthirsty tyrants..and aberrations of civil society

@jean6872 Год назад

@@yamomma6479 Nobody believes that black Africans are incapable of murder even on a mass scale. We have newspapers and TV you know.

@XRTSDFA Год назад

@@jean6872 why?

@sultanthu Год назад

This should be constantly played in all high schools in Kenya to make sure each generation understands and sees what 'colinialism' really meant. reading is one thing, seeing is another. Amazing work al Jazeera !

@claudestuder4199 Год назад

No! This should be shown in schools all over the world!

@johnnykilonzo2103 Год назад

Even Britains were once colonised by the Romans and they were enslaved. We should stop victimizing ourselves

@sycamorevendor4959 Год назад

The present governments wouldn't let it happen. They wouldn't want the people know what they lost and continue losing. The present African governments are just a little less as exploitative as the colonizer. The government that took power from the colonizers set the pace that subsequent governments accelerated. Politicians thrive on the ignorance of the populace and they would like to sustain it that way.

@GP-wt8eo Год назад

@@johnnykilonzo2103 just stop.

@johnnykilonzo2103 Год назад

@@GP-wt8eo even British schools are taught the cruelty and slavery they were forced by the Romans, Vikings and French for over 500 years. Every one was colonised, the world is cruel.

@thatgirlg3719 Год назад

Whenever you ask an elder wholived through this ,"what happened?/was happening?" You always watch their faces and emotions change drastically. The memories haunt them decades later

@itoeasuh850 Год назад

I studied the Mao Mao revolt and the British cruelty in so many parts of Africa saluting my Bantu family in Kenya from Cameroon 🇨🇲

@OnvaspetInogirigozilla Месяц назад

It is mau mau not mao mao

@garamabe6891 Год назад

My father said that the bombs were exploding so loudly that he was still traumatized early this year. He passed away in August this year without ever getting justice.

@dlaru1376 Год назад

May you kin find peace now after years of trauma. May They be rested in eternity

@riccardo9383 Год назад

This documentary should be shown in every school around the world, and particularly in the UK.

@steveerossa Год назад

For what. To make them feel evil? To set them up for reparations demand? Power play so they open their borders.

@mandago3783 Год назад

@@ricfermi5886 Let there be hatred if it must be for Truth. History can't be brushed like that and forgotten.

@ah-bu6wh Год назад

@@ricfermi5886 you scare dog?

@njukimaregwa9179 Год назад

@@ricfermi5886 fala nyamaza

@wdafuk1313 Год назад

@@mandago3783 Only the hatred isn't based on truth.

@jharbin4409 Год назад

Germany could never have moved forward if not for acknowledging their own atrocities. Britain should do the same.

@ricfermi5886 Год назад

Acknowledging by coercion!

@saliksayyar9793 Год назад

The victors write the histories, all evil is pinned on the defeated enemy. The Germans have not been allowed to read or write a balanced history. They are still defeated and not allowed to buy gas from Russia while Norway exports gas to Poland and the UK has its North Sea oil

@ricfermi5886 Год назад

@@saliksayyar9793 Their thousand year old culture crushed, reduced to a seven-year hoax.

@ricfermi5886 Год назад

@@availanila that will do the day the Africans acknowledge their being sub-par quasi humans.

@ricfermi5886 Год назад

@@availanila it's you that should work out a way to be granted some feelings, only when you're graciously given some human feelings you'll understand what's shame. You haven't got feelings.

@Shaleqa_Adenan 9 месяцев назад

My beautiful neighbor! You are truly real Africa and we are proud to be next to you from Ethiopia 🇪🇹

@OnvaspetInogirigozilla Месяц назад

Appreciate that

@ATLmodK Месяц назад

I am studying the Troubles, the conflict in Northern Ireland, where General (Sir) Frank Kitson applied his counterinsurgency technique developed in Kenya. He wrote a book, Low Intensity Operations where he outlined his strategies for counterinsurgency. By his own admission he approved and applied torture to those he questioned and incarcerated in Kenya. It never occurred to him that extrajudicial killing and torturing Black People would ever be questioned. From this he made the same arguments in Cyprus and Aden, and then finally the Irish. Seemingly anyone who questioned British rule was so far inferior to the British military that they need not be considered human.

@EdwardKamaunbrows878 Год назад

Al Jazeera never lets down when they do such pieces. As a Kenyan, I rem my late grandad coming to tears when he narrated how they were tortured in one of the camps. This should be front page news. The British should be taught more about what their country did to other people. Jews never let world forget what was done to them neither should we

@bevmunga4094 Год назад

As a Kenyan, I am Outraged! Disgusted! But blessed to be here as our forefathers fought hard for our freedom. God bless all the Mau Mau fighters.

@j.granger1120 Год назад

They killed more Kenyans then British.

@light279 Год назад

I am not from Kenya and to say I am outraged and disgusted is not enough to describe how I FEEL.

@zertyuz 9 месяцев назад

As a Canadian... I am disgusted and ashamed. There was never any justification for what happened other than pure greed and hatred. Stay strong and bless Kenya. It was never about 'civilizing' because the English were never civilized in the first place, they just liked to think that.

@ngashjr 7 месяцев назад

@@zertyuz Yeah you can see it in their food and embracing eccentricism as culture. An empire built by crusaders, marauders and theiving pirates can only immitate civilization. They did all these underhanded things to the people of Kenya because they thought it would keep us under their boot forever. But that generation said, "give me liberty or death!" (Or something like that) After all this we still had to pay them some form of reparations for all the infrastructure they built here and had to keep a few expatriates around to train us how to run a country. Weirdly enough we still have some symbiotic relationship with Britain. Sometimes it feels like a toxic codependence!

@frankyyaggabot6222 4 месяца назад

You should perhaps also have an introduction to what the Mau Mau did (to mainly other native peoples). This was absent to the story and was so graphic that it probably would not pass the RU-vid censors ... they were not saints and despised by many in Kenya (black and white). This story is lacking balance and many leaders in Kenya at the time (including Kenyatta) were extremely critical of the Mau Mau and would be dismayed that figures such as Kimathi are being lionised today. You should not base your feelings on a single biased show based on poor scholarship - do your own research.

@gratitude5740 Год назад

When I watched the part where the Kenyan flag was erected up on the pall, I got shivers and tears came down my face with gratitude and joy. I'm not Kenyan not British, I'm for fairness and freedom!❤ Nakupenda Kenya ! Mungu Akubariki milale!

@MervinJCarey Год назад

Until the philosophy of one inferior, and another superior is discredit, and abounded we won't have any peace

@Omer1996E.C Год назад

As an Ethiopian, I feel for Kenyans, our siblings and neighbors. I know I'll never feel it since I had never experienced it, but it touches my heart a lot, even we were brutally treated in eritrea (eritrea and ethiopia are one in every thing, except the Italian made border) and ethiopia, during the second world War occupation, especially in addis ababa

@lilac8794 Год назад

I love how Ethiopians are always standing with us Kenyans. God bless Ethiopians

@eddyvos2628 Год назад

May the Lord keep and guide you.

@lovettesmith8196 Год назад

And these are the demons that will talk about human rights???whaooo.

@Omer1996E.C Год назад

@@lovettesmith8196 Ikr

@sentry8992 Год назад

Kenyans and Ethiopians and Eritreans should abandon those borders forced upon them by foreign occupiers and form one nation.

@hashimomar9935 Год назад

As an Arab ((my great grandma and my grandma are mijikendas one of the Bantu tribes)) born in Kenya on the coastal city of Mombasa where my ancestors came as trader before colonisation by British..This masterpiece has more information than what we were taught in Kenyan schools..Now am a foreign worker in Qatar and InshaAllah I will visit the Aljazeera offices soon.

@hayfordsomuah1134 Год назад

Hp u are aware the Arabs enslaved us 5 centuries b4 the west came

@hashimomar9935 Год назад

@@hayfordsomuah1134 Yeah I know that and I would like to tell you my grandmother and his mother both are Africans from the mijikenda tribe

@ayankunleakanbi1650 Год назад

@@hashimomar9935 but how come U describe urself as an Arab. If the original ancestors were an Arab man & an African woman, that means U r at the most, half Arab! 🤷🏾

@hashimomar9935 Год назад

@@ayankunleakanbi1650 I identify myself as an Arab because my father (an afro-arab) and mother (an Arab) so that's why Identify as an Arab

@lputaa Год назад

We used to learn about your ancestors in History classes...wow y'all came long ago...heri nyinyi mlikuwa second class,hii mbogi ya Maumau ilikuwa inafinywa 😭

@michaelodonnell824 Год назад

Just in case anyone is under the impression that British Imperial atrocities were "ancient history", please let us remember that EVERYTHING related in this video happened while Elizabeth II was "Gloriously Reigning" and that the British Governments and Royals were fully aware and APPROVING of what happened. After the British were compelled to leave India, Kenya was the new "Jewel" in the Empire. Moreover, both Labour and the Conservatives were in Power while these atrocities were going on and BOTH approved.

@rahabwanjiku6231 Год назад

My grandmother has always told us about those times, but I didn't know it was that bad. I'm angry. We will never forget! 🇰🇪🇰🇪

@selaboy Год назад

This is a masterpiece thanks Al Jazeera 🇴🇲💯

@aljazeeraenglish Год назад

Many thanks for your positive feedback, dear Suley. 🙌

@sanjaychauhan1116 Год назад

@@aljazeeraenglish will you make documentary on migrant workers exploitation and killing in Qatar

@brahma_the_daughter_eater Год назад

@@sanjaychauhan1116 pajeets reacts like workers never dies in india

@rico8573 Год назад

@@sanjaychauhan1116 here come cow vigilante 😂

@abdinasirnathirmohamed6469 Год назад

This is investigative journalism at its best.Well done AlJazeera you never disappoint

@aljazeeraenglish Год назад

Thanks, dear Abdinasir. We're glad you liked it. 🙌

@Tenacity101 Год назад

@@aljazeeraenglish thanks for bringing truths to light 😍

@prematureoptimism7125 Год назад

You've got to be kidding me right ? . . . . No comment.

@geekmeee Год назад

As long as Al Jazeera tells what actually happened… (As opposed to ‘alternate facts’) They will never disappoint.

@johnnykilonzo2103 Год назад

I hate the fact it's one sided. Of course they were brutal but don't forget the other side of the story. Britain were too Victims of violence torture and enslavement by the Roman empire and Vikings .

@graudianyambura9654 Год назад

These kinds of truths should keep being told! Good job.

@johnmohblaxta Год назад

My grandpa was arrested and brutalized for he was one of those administering oath (mumma) to mau mau. My grandma told me they bribed the homeguards with 600 shillings, in terms of cash and goats for his release. Even now she's so traumatized about the events and just told me if mau mau came back she'd just commit suicide. She can't stand watching leave alone living those attrocities again. My grandpa died in 2002, injuries from torture contributed to his health complications.

@davidnfila1316 Год назад

That's why Mugabe's land expropriation policy was the only appropriate action.

@DavidOkikiAmayoJr. Год назад

Al Jazeera's objectivity in reporting goes beyond 'truths,' well into fact. Fantastic docufilm.

@aljazeeraenglish Год назад

Many thanks, dear Trevor. 🙋

@ricfermi5886 Год назад

This sort of revenge is sickening!

@sanjaychauhan1116 Год назад

@@aljazeeraenglish will you make documentary on migrant workers exploitation and killing in Qatar

@milaari3079 Год назад

@@sanjaychauhan1116 lets ask Al Jazeera to make Indian human right issue documentary instead.

@milaari3079 Год назад

@@ricfermi5886 does it hurt to watch this reality news, Brit?

@eddiewangombe936 Год назад

As a Kenya I knew that our forefathers had it bad but had no idea how bad it was, this moved me to tears. We may forgive but never forget.

@KeshiWangeci-tl4jm 10 месяцев назад

Only fools can forgive them why couldn't they forgive our people if they had offended them wake up

@Powerful_Akoth 6 месяцев назад

Forgive people who have not asked for forgiveness? They don’t deserve forgiveness.

@kap849 6 месяцев назад

@@Powerful_AkothYou forgive for your own peace. Forgive but stay alert!

@kikio-rq9kx 4 месяца назад

Can’t forgive

@micerekariuki4714 Год назад

My grandma went through all this. She talks of the story as if it happened yesterday. She has a lot of pain and she is sooo traumatized. She lost a baby also during this time. She remembers Everything till today. This was wrong. What the mzungu did was wrong.

@ronniekinsler2797 Год назад

Thank you for the exposure. Appreciate you and your staff.

@realgamer5636 Год назад

Al Jazeera documentaries are incomparable in today's times. keep it up.

@aljazeeraenglish Год назад

Thanks! 🙋

@vickomen3697 Год назад

Been a fan since 2010 while quite young. I remember watching about the Syrian conflict. Then the Occupation of the American Mind really opened me up to the amazing work of Al Jazeera.

@aljazeeraenglish Год назад

Thanks a million, dear @@vickomen3697 🙌

@nicoledinga9948 Год назад

Am so proud of my grandmothers and grandfather, for fighting in the mau mau, though one of my grandmother's jaw was broken by a British soldier with an AK 47, she is still the strongest woman I've ever met in my life! she is now 120 yrs looking beautiful strong and she has never even used any walking stick and to this day she amazes me..live long Granny ❤️

@elondesignske Год назад

Amazing 😻

@dennisthumbi7598 Год назад

The British army has never used the AK 47, it's a Russian weapon. But long live cucu.

@nicoledinga9948 Год назад

@@dennisthumbi7598 my bad, that's all we grew up knowing

@elder-evmiriamwairimu-aris6453 Год назад

How can I meet her

@cryptohornbill9658 Год назад

They brought along with them bombs, machine guns and artillery to fight the defenseless Africans 😂 but Winston Churchill cried to America for help when Germany rained havoc on their ships 😂😂.

@alexiaNBC Год назад

And Kenya was forced to pay respect to a dead Queen who let these attrocities happen. Life is stupid.

@sherirobinson6867 Год назад

I've been waiting to find time to watch this... Excellent coverage, commentary and documentary. Another fabulous publication by AJ!

@ibbbabn3788 Год назад

BBC should broadcast these atrocities committed by their forefathers

@lputaa Год назад

🤣😭💔

@j.Hasan007 Год назад

Never...

@milaari3079 Год назад

They Will never exposed themself

@channeler231 Год назад

It will never happened the brits are too blind too arrogant to admit that they too were just as bad as the evil nazis were.

@naimadido7263 Год назад

BBC was there taking part, doing their share of covering up. They can’t talk about this kind of history without admitting there involvement.

@nancykahuho Год назад

I am a kikuyu , my grandparents - specifically died fighting for the kenyan independence , they were buried in an unmarked graves - this set out so much pain tor my family , even today being the third - generations . In short poverty and survival took root . A home without a father - what happens to it ? Who protects the children and the vunerable woman left behind in the 1960’s.

@tortiedove 11 месяцев назад

Thank you for making this! I never knew about this struggle and dark period in Kenyan and British history.

@freakinfrugal5268 Год назад

It boils down to greed, the most evil of all human traits. The greed of men. Every evil grows out of greed. It's sickening. It's what is ruining this planet.

@MurreyEphraim Год назад

When my grandma talks of the maumau times.. she sheds tears. Shes old but vividly recalls all the harsh, traumatic, painful and unforgettable ordeals. She traveled to Germany but came back shaken coz she feared that the whites might oppress her again.

@elondesignske Год назад

Wueeh so sorry 😔

@richardsampras4574 Год назад

i wonder why she's not traumatized about what the mau mau were doing to people

@eddyvos2628 Год назад

As a " white " I cannot begin to understand the trauma. But evil is and wad and will be everywhere. See the horror of the second world war, the gulag in Russia, the mass execution/oppression in China et cetera

@sidneyachia1909 Год назад

@@richardsampras4574 having been PRISONERS of THE WHITE MAN from slightly after 1898, by the time it was 1952 these Africans were TIRED of living as THIRD CLASS CITIZENS in their own HOMELAND. It seems as though you don't know what it means to LOSE YOUR FREEDOM. Imagine being in a POLICE CELL for five days, ... no for FIFTY YEARS! We would expect you err by siding with the VICTIMS and not by siding with the PERPETRATORS. Have mercy. 🙏

@eddyvos2628 Год назад

@@jacklinekarwitha9413 Oh no it is not like that. I don't try to minimise what Kenyans went through. I just didn't know about till recently. All I tried to say is I knew about the horror committed by king Leopold II in Congo. Sorry you felt this way. By the way, we are 1 race, the human race. Then also my daughter is half African. I might choose to retire somewhere in Africa. God bless Africa.

@jefmweds Год назад

My Grandfather was a maumau, I shed tears after seeing the independence fireworks. The hypocrisy of the UK government is really wanting, just own up your mess. We Kenyans will never forget what was done to our ancestors, We will never! That should sink in to anyone who think we can be friends based on hypocrisy. We know that we are in a convenient relationship with them, who even today continue to look down on us kins because of skin color. I love my country. To the collaborators sons and daughters who continue to occupy leadership positions, being remorseful in your service is required. What you did to your brothers and sisters was terrible and we will never forget.

@jonsimmons4150 Год назад

Uk biggest mistake in 1000 years was to get involved in ww2. Hitlers armies were there to keep Europe safe, instead of which we fought them, when the uk should have stayed independant.

@sheilasullivan1950 Год назад

Forgive but do not forget. We Irish learned, many moons ago, that lesson.

@ianbeddowes5362 Месяц назад

Red Salute yo your grandfather from a British Communist and former soldier of uMkhonto we Sizwe. Amandla!

@crosscutbarber2301 Год назад

Watching this documentary leave me with many questions.but the one that stands out in my head is WHAT'S IS THE DEFRENCE BETWEEN NATZI GERMANY AND THE BRITISH EMPIRE 🤷🏿‍♂️

@yanmi2148 Год назад

None.

@fariedmaya3617 Год назад

Appreciate this kind of documentary, great job Al Jazeera. Keep dig for the truth, for justice of humanity.

@md.muzahidulislamsamrat8037 Год назад

I think I am a tough man, how did tears come to my eyes? Nobody should go through this level of dehumanization. My heartiest condolences to all native victims of Kenya. Free Palestine- the last colony of British empire

@jacobfinder7476 Год назад

Yes, and the world needs to understand the Israeli genocide against the Palestinian people.

@eltonlewis4979 Год назад

UK still have colonies ...gibraltar, bermuda, british virgin island, and others

@ricfermi5886 Год назад

Ask Christiane Amanpour about Hutu and Tutsi

@babangidaomolos5104 Год назад

@@ricfermi5886 follow the queen to her grave! 😂

@ricfermi5886 Год назад

@@babangidaomolos5104 unlike subsahariens, we do have a soul. It's all there, written in the Holy Bible!

@shellibelli4387 Год назад

The colonial superiority complex was still evident when I spent a year in Kenya in 1985, while working with the US Peace Corps (teaching math near Oyugis). I would occasionally meet a white Kenyan near Nairobi who had a disparaging attitude toward the black Kenyans. One made a mean comment about how the black women looked in polyester dresses. There were foreign missionaries from all over the world in Kenya trying to ‘save’ the black Kenyans while asking for weekly donations of coins for their small churches. I learned a lot from the Kenyans I lived and worked with. It was a wonderful place, especially far from Nairobi.

@joekabbz82kambo26 Год назад

My hatred for British colonialists is real. The pain and the blood that my innocent countrymen shed as a result of white man's greed of our natural resources was uncalled for. My prayers and love for the maumau victims and family members who witnessed this holocaust is always with us Kenyans, we appreciate your defiance and arms struggle as well as your patriotism. God bless you abundantly 🇰🇪 💕💕💕🙏

@frankyyaggabot6222 4 месяца назад

There were precious few natural resources in Kenya - it was the secondary industries that the colonists set up and English Taxpayers that largely paid for Kenya's early development. The Mau Mau was also widely despised in the 1960s - the reversal of that is a modern phenomena that is the result of a lot of bad scholarship and propaganda. I would defer to Jomo Kenyatta's assessment of the Mau Mau in which he described it as a civil war amongst Kikuyu old and new. Truth is never simple and to misconstrue events decades after they occurred is a fallacy that will create a whole new evil. History is not learned but contrived to fit a narrative that has little to do with the past.

@adxtti3321 6 дней назад

@@frankyyaggabot6222 you cant deceive people out not seeing your wrongs, an ethnic cleansing is what occured.

@Black_ish77 8 месяцев назад

'What you cannot do with peace, you can archieve through war' gave the chills🥶

@bagumampenda2275 Год назад

Qatar literally said to the British, “You wanna talk about human rights coz we got the World Cup? Let’s start here!”😅😅😅

@abdinasirmohamed2238 Год назад

😁😁😁

@tonnyanthonys2159 Год назад

True that 😃😃

@Kannot2023 Год назад

The difference is timing, Brits did it half century ago. Qatar is doing now. Britain discussed this on public, when Qatar will discuss their problems?

@xl6941 Год назад

Arabic brutalism is still existant and far much worse. Not just Qatar. Africans are enslaved in Arabic world to this day

@bagumampenda2275 Год назад

@@Kannot2023 Qatar opened an ILO (UN labour rights arm) Project Office since 2018 specifically to address the migrant workers situation and they are going to make is a permanent arrangement. You probably did not know that since you are consumed by your virtue signalling. Britain did not address anything about colonialism, they created a problem and when they understood their empire was coming to an end they took they high road pretended to grant independence, just like they did with slavery. Also your argument that Britain did it 50 years ago and that they should be absolved is just stupid. Have you even watched the documentary? The people Britain tortured are still alive and they are giving their testimonies in the documentary.

@estherwanjiru7005 Год назад

my grandmother had tales about the 'muthungu' .. what she went through is something she carried everyday of her life. May she rest in peace.

@jimmie4141 Год назад

This is why as Kenyans we never mourned the death of the queen....we know the struggle we went through..our Grand parents still have bullet scars, torture scars..and trauma...we learn about the struggle for independence in school...we can never and will never mourn a colonizer!

@sammymwatha8977 Год назад

As a Kenyan, from Mt. Kenya region, where the Mau Mau began, my grandfather used to narrate to us when we were kids the untold horrors, torture, castration and evil they went through... And later learn it in school, albeit a more sanitized version of it .. I'm in my early thirties but the stories have stayed with me, often deeply and it makes me not take for granted the freedom that I enjoy... I'm pregnant with the fact that it was paid for by blood, our forefathers blood... Couldn't be more proud of them..

@eddyvos2628 Год назад

As a belgian I am shocked by this documentary. I heard much more what happened in Congo. In 2017 I was in Kenya and heard about the land conflict. Now only I hear some horrifying details. May the Lord bring healing.

@kenrichmwanza Год назад

Such an Insightful Documentary! As a Kenyan, can those documents be put out for the Kenyan public? We have a right to understand our True History. This is not what They teach us in school.

@ben33584 Год назад

Our scholastic education is still colonized sadly

@AMarie2326 Год назад

They are there some are in Archives . But people’s minds need to be decolonized to see who the real culprits are.

@joshuaombaka3116 11 месяцев назад

Really. I've listened to what is detailed in this documentary and it isn't new as much. We have it in primary book and detailed further in secondary school. Furthermore, we have literature that is availed to show proof that we also had homeguards that helped defeat Mau Mau. So, it is true that history details this

@adonisstudioske8208 Год назад

As a Kenyan who’s watching this , I lack words to describe who I feel

@peaceamani4186 Год назад

I think all of East Africa owes the Mau Mau a THANK YOU. I had always wondered why Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania got their independence around the same time. This makes it very clear.

@gonnagritt1777 Год назад

kenya was a colony, uganda was a protectorate and tanganyika was under british trusteeship after germany lost it during WW 1. today we are defined by that.

@peaceamani4186 Год назад

@@gonnagritt1777 those are just fancy words. We all know we were colonised

@kim1570 Год назад

@@peaceamani4186 No they're not just fancy words, they're different forms of rulership that the colonialists imposed on us, that had vastly different effects on we Kenyans. You can never compare a protectorate to a colony, particularly a crown colony, which Kenya was.

@thaliabeaby8202 Год назад

@@gonnagritt1777 Uganda was a protectorate thats true.Uganda had Buganda who rejected total subjugation,they were smart and assertive,the British had nothing to teach Buganda.She had her civilisation,organised leadership and strength over other nations.The British had no choice but to use civility because Buganda was civil.

@gonnagritt1777 Год назад

@@thaliabeaby8202 but this did not end up well for UG..

@natashaserem Год назад

No European nation that participated in the scramble and partition of Africa and eventually leading to colonisation will ever accept or agree to the things they did to us. But still we live to fight another day. You may deny, but history never forgets. Thank you for this documentary. 🇰🇪

@emmanueloban8349 Год назад

The Belgians under King Leopold was the culprit on the subjugation of African slaves. Belgium should pay reparations...

@fruitsarelife7073 Год назад

@@emmanueloban8349 They are still exploiting Africa. There is no independence. Africa is neo-colonized. Let alone the west paying reperations. They are not done. That’s why we leave Africa.

@emmanueloban8349 Год назад

@@fruitsarelife7073 it is so true!!! The United Nations had failed Africa in so many ways. Exploitation of people and natural resources are still going. Every non-profit groups I have heard on television that supposedly helping the Africans were just publicity stunts no more, no less.

@Kosmas.9284 Год назад

They might be crushed by the Russians, that would be good karma!

@jphalsberghe1 Год назад

@@emmanueloban8349 The bulk of ''Belgian'' atrocities were made under King Leopold 100% ownership of the Congo. He never set a step on ''his property''. Every year, he received ''business reports'' from ''managers many non-Belgians. He had no idea what happened in the Congo and in cas he had some information, he was too far away and probably would have condoned it. When news reached Belgium and England of massive repression in Leopold's Congo, the Belgian State forced its revered King to ''donate'' his property Congo to the Belgian State. Finally under heavy pressure, he gave in and a much softer Belgian State controlled ''colonialism'' followed. After lengthy Belgian military efforts, the Belgian State made an end to the countless Arab raids in the Congo to capture tens of thousands of Congolese slaves. History, real history is never only black and white.

@DonAlpha 11 месяцев назад

The experiences that our grandparents would narrate to us would not only drive them but also us to painful tears.The kikuyu community paid a heavy price for kenya's freedom. I salute my two grandfathers who were mau mau fighters for braving up against British imperialism !! Even after losing thousands of its most energetic men ,the kikuyu community lives on nevertheless. God bless our nation kenya 🇰🇪

@omemaskema9012 Год назад

Thankuuu for this Aljazeera...thankuu

@aljazeeraenglish Год назад

Thank you for watching. 🙌

@halimaissack4719 Год назад

As a kenyan this is really heartbreaking documentary.... people shed blood for kenya to gain freedom .Mau Mau our unsung heroes ....

@maghangamngangu6347 Год назад

The British also fought with Taita Tribe and took their land and never returned it upto today. Some Taitas in Kenya are living as squatters in their ancestral land

@abocas Год назад

I think you should address the Kenyatta family about this. They certainly learned something from the Brits. If nothing else else, they learned corruption and land grabbing .... big time!

@propertisyariahsemarang8142 Год назад

World class! thank you al Jazeera for showing the world the suffering of the Kenyan, greeting of solidarity from Indonesia

@neommutle8033 8 месяцев назад

Thank you AL J for doing this report. 🙏 The BBC will never do such a report.

@cynthiag.1306 Год назад

In 2018 I met two Mau Mau fighters ; a woman and a man, still living with bullets (what were called pellets in their days ) in their bodies. They were most happy that I had travelled from my town to Nyandarua without seeking permission or hanging the Kipande on my neck. They offered us food, prayed for us and gave us some money to use on our way back..they would not take no for an answer. They were never rewarded and lived as squatters, but they said my freedom of movement; and that of my colleagues was a great reward and that they could now rest (read die).

@satyabratachatterjee1938 Год назад

This is what irks me a lot . The treatment that is given to these honourable people who fought and suffered to bring freedom to their country . They should be honoured they should find satisfaction in recognition of their sufferings and sacrifices . But the power goes to such people who are self important and they generally neglect these freedom fighters such that no one claims a share to their glory . I have read of this , seen this happen almost universally . It pains me a lot .

@kaborimaish Год назад

should we tell them? should we tell the world? should we tell them that even after all that torture and atrocities unleashed on the mau mau, it is the children and grand children of home guards, colonial chiefs and collaborators who are actually enjoying the fruits of this struggle

@DAVIDDOWNEY23 Год назад

Excellent documentary, well researched and very moving.

@adventureheads3657 Год назад

That's why I love Al Jazeera they show you real things that can't CNN or other news can't show

@nw504 Год назад

They are international narcissists and gaslighting savages! May God bless the people of Kenya.

@issamohamed9757 Год назад

The documentary has ignited a substantial conversation about the British imperial past in Kenya, and the role of the British monarchy in providing a cultural cover for the genocide and enslavement.

@robertewing3114 6 месяцев назад

The media is a cultural cover for most State crimes. Republics do the same as monarchies, issuing official lies against individual citizens and calling it justice. These documents are of no interest to anyone influential, the public is told the law rules, the documents prove there is no law, all is lies. And there is nothing any one can do to induce the media to examine present State crimes, as told to the European Parliament systems are not serving people rather the people are serving the systems. Evil it is, yet the media will only say unofficially, I quote, Its all a con, isn't it?

@SuperDiamondace Год назад

This is a familiar story for us Kenyans esp if your grandparents come from Central Kenya. My grandma always narrates the gruesome torture they bore during British Colonialism. She tells it so vividly like it happened just yesterday. It's painful to know most of it was not documented including the emotional trauma. There's no enough compensation will be able to wipe their tears. She always tells to really value the cost of our freedom because it was very expensive. It cost many lives. May God bless the souls of our freedom fighters.

@maasaimkisii9089 Год назад

*Proudly A Kenyan* 🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪

@theoddball1 Год назад

What Kenyans went through was totally inhuman.. Apart from the Mau Mau there were also atrocities done in western part of Kenya to the Nandi people (kalenjin dialect). Their leader was beheaded and his head taken to Britain. Up to date the British aren't willing to bring it back..

@mamak6802 Год назад

Anti 🙆! Very sad indeed.

@gilgilmore5471 Год назад

The Oddball It's essential that we teach our children their African History and for all of us to be a United African. Respect maintain our cultural traditions and help each other as Africans. This would help achieve a stronger united African Nations.

@spicytomango Год назад

I remember there were some Brits who were upset about some countries celebrating the Queen's passing. I hope this documentary is shared for all to see the horrors these monsters committed in her name. To deny what happened is to defend the unthinkable.

@johnnykilonzo2103 Год назад

But Britain were once colonised by the Romans and they too suffered. Besides us Kenyans were killing each other

@logic5204 Год назад

@@johnnykilonzo2103 Two wrongs don't make a right.

@MarvoloSalazar Год назад

@@logic5204 huyo jamaa anajaribu kusema nini sasa shenzi kabisa

@michaelochido3244 Год назад

@@johnnykilonzo2103 sir do you actually hear what you are saying....so because the Romans colonized Britain,it was their right to commit dastardly atrocities and pillage,greed in their colonies...planned famine in India,brutal atrocities in Burma,Kenya,South Africa West indies ,Australia and many other countries!As a historian,I have read The iceman Inheritance...it answers a lot of queries on caucasian conquest,greed,misogny and their cruelty

@Brian-bo4bz Год назад

@@johnnykilonzo2103 wewe unafikiria kama mshenzi tu, Sasa nikikuja nikuue sai ni sawa ju anyway watu wanauana tu Kenya Hadi Leo?

@JoanNyota 2 дня назад

God bless Kenya🙏 Long live our beloved motherland 🇰🇪🇰🇪

@enduro5841 Год назад

It's sad that this parts of the history have been deducted. Thank you @Al Jazeera

@BlsdWageci Год назад

This broke my heart on so many levels. Thank you! We needed to be taught and reminded what happened because most of our elders are no longer here to share their experiences. We should never forget. I pray Africa will stand united.

@gaiamagna9156 Год назад

The best things of learning histories are to understand the present and to not repeat the same mistakes.

@raeRai993 Год назад

History repeats. It’s sucks

@hassanharith6820 Год назад

Some MISTAKE does happen trough ( underlying causes/reasons of) provocative actions, . . .i guess. * ie: trough ' kind demeanor ',. human right / or some people might called it ' hyper - liberal '. ** -Just opinion. -No intention to against the human rights.

@artisthusnatalal3099 Год назад

*They own these International schools but they can't give an opportunity vacancy to Kenyans who are undergraduates with experience in Teaching. They keep bringing their people from abroad. I guess many of them are living in Kenya illegally. They should be investigated. These people are of themselves* 🤨

@jeffmurage Год назад

Much appreciated for this piece! Gracias!

@njuenjagi4983 Год назад

As a Kenyan, and as an Embu where part of the Mau Mau came from.......this is heavy!

@kim1570 6 месяцев назад

Kabisa. GEMA 💪🏿🙏🏿

@ODan-wz2lz Год назад

I always regret that our school children are never taught this enough in schools. This should be hammered into every young generation lest we forget and let our guards down again.

@kevoh5087 Год назад

I'm a kenyan living in kenya high lands during 1970 and 80 it was rare to find aged people because 80% of them were killed by British while fighting like me i didn't find my grandfather my dad told me his father was killed by British government i found my grandmother with no ribs she told me her ribs were broken by (nyakeru) British its sad she passed away in 2010 suffering 😢 and there are more grandparents suffering just hoping one day they will remember kenya the remaining grandparents are suffering they gained nothing.

@kevoh5087 Год назад

@@pm3302 i believe in maumau and mungiki

@sheilasullivan1950 Год назад

Do not despair. For your Father in heaven sees all, knows all. Satan rules this world but your Father in heaven owns this world and us. Choose Him. No saint leaves this world in peace and quiet. They always suffer a martyrs death. Took me a long long time to understand and accept that fact. So be joyful. Your ancestor is in heaven at the heavenly banquet rejoicing. Sing thanks and praise, it is all good.

@smr4712 Год назад

@@sheilasullivan1950 we will not wait on the slumbering Lord for our revenge..

@sheegrace Год назад

Wow! Being Kenyan myself but born and grown up abroad and hearing stories from my grandparents about those horrific times, this was very enlightening. So sad that there has never been acknowledgement of all the atrocities that took place in Kenya and during British colonialism around the world. It is clear that they have tried to push it under the rug and no accountability has ever been taken at least. You can clearly see on Gavaghan's documentary excerpt he was absolutely unremorseful and in denial thinking he was doing right. I hope our and future generations learn from these mistakes and they are never repeated again!

@davidlloyd-jones8519 Год назад

Mambo Shee. There is an eliment suspiciously missing from this story - and that is that the core maumau were visited by the russians - inspired by communism - and so the 'conflict' became far far greater and deeper than the story conveyed by this video. Yes i know many suffered - but just like today - the issues may appear to be racial - but the greater battle is between left/right ideologies and narratives - this reality is hiding in plain sight - even today.

@ebbymangao3609 7 месяцев назад

Àaaàaaaaa❤❤

@abongderic8565 2 месяца назад

aljazeera, you never disappoint!!

@martinkinyua797 Год назад

Happy jamhuri day to all Kenyans . Let's not forget of the atrocious actions done by the British. Even to the Kenyans in Britain always remember of the kind of people you are dealing with. Peace 🕊️

@gamingwithalvis5688 Год назад

There's good and bad in each society, stop generalization..

@chidmi Год назад

British media : criticizing Qatar and their Culture during World cup . Al jazeera : Do i need to remind you guys ?

@ObeySilence Год назад

In British Media landscape there exist thousands of documentaries critisising what the generation of old Brits committed.

@j.Hasan007 Год назад

Well said....

@danarzechula3769 Год назад

2 wrongs don't make a right

@rarefootball10 Год назад

@@ObeySilence Don't say old Brits, just say Brits. There is no distinction between them, especially if the latter keep denying the very occurrences.

@henryochieng6892 Год назад

This is no justification for Qatar's human rights abuses.

@joshuamohler2356 Год назад

Thank you for this informative documentary

@themogitworld Год назад

Having been raised up by a son of a maumau, the stories that my grandparents always narrate to us are so traumatizing.

@AlphonsoTheTrader Год назад

British colonialism in Kenya was just inhumane, I learned the hard way from my Grandfather. Sad

@MM-tb8dy Год назад

Britain and it's British citizens. We will NEVER forget. NEVER.

@LUISARAMOSCRICK 7 месяцев назад

Extraordinay documentary, exemplary research. Very moving. My country was a colonial power, but in Portugal we started to uncover our colonial past with all its brutality. All colonial powers enslaved, tortured and killed men, women and children. I want to thank you for your work and this documentary.

@kayambakayumbet Год назад

To my brave grandpa who died in detention, you are forever loved

@olabenne5519 Год назад

As a Tanzanian..am boiling with anger

@sheilasullivan1950 Год назад

No, do not fall into that trap. To forgive is divine. Just be sure to not forget is the key. Peace to you. Us Irish were divided and conquered by them then scattered to the four winds as slaves. We made it. You will too. Eyes on heaven. That is our final destination. Saints get crucified in this world. Proof you are a holy people. Do not give up. Love beats all.

@RMwangi37 Год назад

When the Mau Mau veterans speak in a language that I understand (Gikuyu) their words are twice as reverberating.

@jamesmwangi6816 Год назад

An eye-opening documentary.

@gmmbae8973 Год назад

My late Grandpa (RIP) went through it, tortured then imprisoned for 7 years. He died 2 years after I was born, am told he was a different man when he was released from prison. Shame on the British, taking land that never belonged to them. Grandpa, your struggle for my Motherland will never be forgotten. Long live 🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪