Gitu Wa Kahengeri, a Mau Mau rebel, seeks justice from the British government after enduring torture and imprisonment.
More than six decades after Gitu Wa Kahengeri's harrowing ordeal in a British-run Kenyan labor camp, he's still seeking justice.
Now in his nineties, Gitu has ramped up his push for an apology and compensation from the British government ahead of a visit by King Charles III to the East African country next week. “We fought to be free because the colonial settlers had grabbed all the fertile land and made it their own,” Gitu told AFP during an interview at his home surrounded by pineapple farms outside the town of Thika.“The cruel… ill-treatment that was meted to the Africans by the colonial administration, I was one to suffer that.”
Tens of thousands of people were rounded up and detained without trial in camps where reports of executions, torture and vicious beatings were common. Tens of thousands of Kenyans — many with no links to the Mau Mau — endured harrowing treatment including torture and appalling sexual mutilation at the hands of security forces.
But the symbolism of the visit — the first by Charles to a Commonwealth country since becoming king — is not lost on Gitu.“If I were given a place and a chance to speak to the king… the first question I would ask him is why did you keep silent?”
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