Friday, October 5, 2012

Court rules that Kenyan torture victims can sue British govt

Britain’s High Court ruled Friday that Kenyans tortured during the Mau Mau revolution against British colonial rule can proceed with compensation claims against the British government.

The case involves Kenyans who say they were beaten and sexually assaulted by officers acting for the British administration trying to suppress the Mau Mau revolution in the 1950s. Groups of Kenyans had attacked British officials and white farmers who had settled in some of Kenya’s most fertile

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