Soldiers guard suspected Mau Mau fighters behind barbed wire in the Kikuyu reserve in October 1952, during the Mau Mau uprising against British colonial rule in Kenya. Photograph: -/AFP/Getty Images The decision to compensate the victims of torture and illegal detention during the Mau Mau insurgency in Kenya (Britain has said sorry to the Mau Mau, 7 June) is heartening and must lend weight to claims for compensation by those whose civil and human rights were abused by British security forces in the first colonial counterinsurgency campaign of the postwar era, in Palestine. Illustration: Gary Kempston Will the government now apologise for the torture and murder of a 16-year-old boy,...
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