The BBC’s World At One (7 mins 30 secs) dignifies and white washes Mau Mau terrorism.
The BBC’s Gabriel Gatehouse talking to one of the, as he calls them, Mau Mau veterans:
‘I must say sir you sound very magnaminous considering what you went through.’
…the ferocity and barbarity of what went on at that time has left deep scars…on the victims of torture.
Not the ferocity and barbarity of the Mau Mau but of the Brits.
Max Hastings on the programme suggests Gabriel Gatehouse ought to die of shame for the one sided report that he just delivered.
Gatehouse thinks its all a big joke:
Gabriel Gatehouse @ggatehouse 6h @Nowheria Max Hastings said on Radio 4 I should “die of shame” for my reporting on the story
Gatehouse highlights claims that ‘London’ implicated in Kenyan local decisions;
Gabriel Gatehouse @ggatehouse 7h Those involved in the case say the decision of the court and the settlement do point to “systematized” violence orchestrated from London
Not one sided at all, no shilling for the Mau Mau terrorists by Gatehouse:
Gabriel Gatehouse @ggatehouse 5 Jun Mau Mau: UK thought to be offering around £14m for 5,200 claimants. That’s £2700 each. Some had their testicles ripped off with pliers.
Gatehouse seems keen to ‘encourage’ others to make similar claims:
Gabriel Gatehouse @ggatehouse 6h Seems inevitable today’s settlement will encourage other people with colonial-era grievances to come forward. Malaya? Cyprus? Palestine?
Tim Stanley in the Telegraph takes a line that the BBC obviously doesn’t:
The British must not rewrite the history of the Mau Mau revolt
I wonder if we could directly approach the City of Rome for compensation for all of that Roman Empire thing. I realise that it is a while ago now but does a statute of limitations apply?
Some killings definitely went on and also the other stuff. Peace, roads, learning, trade, prosperity etc.
We might have a case you know.
Anyone who follows this up with a Monty Python quote gets a slap in the mouth.
With a fish?
Of course.
Anyone got the Danish Embassy number? I’m sure we suffered from a bit of rape and pillage back in the the day.
I blame Sandi Toksvig for this upsurge in anti-Danish sentiment.
Sandi Toksvig raped and pillaged?
Bloody ‘ell!
But who by? Anyone actually want to?
Compensation for Danegeld.-Perhaps in bacon?
Drains, dont forget the drains, oh and….
Never mind the Romans, how about the French? The ‘harrying of the north’?
i wonder if phil shiner represented this lot,anyway, i bet al qaeda in iraq and the taliban will be next on the list to get a nice little pay out after these traitoress politicians like william dopey haugue and cameron fall over each other apologising to these terrorist murderers,makes you sick.
Cameron, civil rights lawyers and the BBC : how very enlightened and magnanimous – with other people’s cash.
There’s a tweet from BBC South Africa correspondent Karen
Allen on Gatehouse’s Twitter account. Her profile reads:
Southern Africa Correspondent for BBC News – Previously East Africa. Following developments across the continent. British born but more European than Brit.
Ashamed to be British, Karen?
Why would she be any different form the entire staff?
When I heard this story yesterday I was disappointed as yet again we seem to be painting ourselves as no better than Nazis whilst failing to acknowledge that a conflict has two sides. It’s not just the BBC though it’s the government providing the ammunition. They make me sick. Didn’t the Mau Mau act in a very similar way to Mugabes thugs against white farmers ( slaughtering white people in remote areas) and isn’t that sort of thing still going on in S Africa. The UK PTB must hate their own country judging by their consistent actions that tend to be against the interests of their own people.
That’e exactly what they did. I had an SAS friend who lost his hearing in both ears during a mortar attack during that conflict; the same round cost my friend’s sargeant his life.
The Mau Mau didn’t even speak for the majority of Kenyans.
It really is beyond my comprehension that the BBC employs such ignorant undeucated bufoons; even the most basic research seems beyond them.
And, of course, there’s always the Obama-Mau Mau family connection.
“Why Barack Obama doesn’t much care for Britain”
By Daniel Hannan.
Link:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100067261/why-barack-obama-doesnt-much-care-for-britain/
To be fair, He doesn’t much care for anyone outside of His Chicago and extreme-Left political circle.
And there’s this:
Glenn Beck, Dinesh D’Souza on Obama, Mau Mau and Britain.
(35 min video from Glenn Beck TV.)
http://tube.7s-b.com/video/r9L-lK5QBPk/2016-OBAMA-S-AMERICA-Dinesh-D-Souza-s-Movie-with-Glenn-Beck-on-GBTV.html
The only group whose violence against British troops is not justified in Beeboids’ minds due to oppression and colonialism is the Jews in Palestine during the 1930s and 40s.
Can we sue the Mau Mau for atrocities THEY carried out I wonder?
yep! £20, 000 000 will just about cover it ;-D
I take it the Mau Mau scum, as Jomo Kenyatta called them, will share their ill gotten gains with the 150 Kikuyu men, women and children that the Mau Mau terrorists hacked and burned to death during a single night in Lari and, no doubt, leaving many others maimed for life.
For those who would have us believe these were some kind of Freedom Fighters and heroes that is not the perception of the Kenyan African population, even amongst their own Kikuyu tribe, who found the activities of Mau Mau abhorrent and considered them an embarrassment to their country due to their butchery and terrorism which was mainly inflicted on their own people.
What is most telling is that these individuals’ complaints have not been taken up by the Kenyan Government who appear to have wanted nothing to do with them and that says everything about how the members of Mau Mau are viewed b y their own people.
Absolutely. Spot on. Don’t expect the BBC to report that, though. Requires working or research, and is therefore beyond the capabilities of yer average beeboid.
Getting away from the BBC here, but if the UK Government had to throw money at something, a far better approach have have been to build a few schools or something for the benefit of everybody.
I have raised this before as has someone has above, is Phil Shiner involved in this?
Perhaps, we should be told.
We really need to expose this charlatan for cockroach he is; deliberately seeking cases from around the world just to make money from himself and against the UK government.
Will someone in government finally wake to what this man is doing.
I mean for himself, sorry!
As predicted: This is from The Nation in Nairobi. Huge money made for the UK lawyers:
“The UK legal team sought to justify the amount it would be paid, stating that they had deployed huge resources in researching and presenting the case in courts.
“We have fought a rigorous battle of four years, we have employed a huge team to the case and also research work. That is why the cost is a bit high,” said Martin Day, the lawyer who kick-started the compensation case.”
Good article here from someone who was actually there fighting against the Mau Mau:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1248980/Why-Mau-Mau-claims-British-brutality-reverse-truth-man-fought-them.html
‘They slaughtered perhaps 10,000 of their own tribe who wanted a peaceful route to independence. They slaughtered Asians, too – mostly traders. And they murdered about 30 white settlers. The number of white victims may have been small, but there were some very high-profile cases.
In October 1954, about 60 Mau Mau guerrillas had attacked the famous anthropologist Louis Leakey’s cousin, Gray Leakey, strangling his wife in front of him and then hauling him away to the Mt Kenya Crown Forest to sacrifice to their fearsome and demanding god.
We heard later that they cut open his stomach, yanked out his intestines and buried him in a pit upside-down, alive, facing the jagged peak of Mt Kenya where their deity lived.’
Another Mau Mau party piece was tying a rope round a straw hut ( the door opened outwards) and burning the family inside.
That our boys used to keep league tables of kills upsets me not a jot. In fact quite the opposite.