Word: camped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...difficult not to admire those "middle-of-the-roaders" who have, by serious intellectual effort, earned for themselves a place in the camp of the genuine "moderate liberals." But for squatters there is little defense
Capped on a craggy knuckle of Algerian mountains penetrable only by mule trains, the village of Beni Ouagag was once the home of 3,000 Moslems. Then the Algerian war began. The F.L.N. turned Beni Ouagag into a base camp. In retaliation, the French one day in 1957 bombed the little town...
...Kenya's sweltering sun one morning last March, husky African warders herded 85 ragged prisoners out of the inner compound at Hola camp, 220 miles east of Nairobi, and into an adjacent field. The prisoners were the last hard-core remnants of Mau Mau terrorism. Each had taken the bloody oaths to kill, each had killed; many were sullen and confused men warped by their savagery. For all of them it was to be another day of digging on an irrigation ditch. Suddenly, as if by prearrangement, dozens of the prisoners fell to the ground, refusing to work...
...deceit and outright lies. Day after the incident, an official Nairobi communique said the prisoners had died "after drinking water from a water cart." When Coroner W. H. Goudie began his own inquiry, he got little assistance from witnesses who testified, including, in his opinion, Hola's white Camp Commandant Michael Sullivan, whose veracity he frankly doubted. The coroner's verdict was itself curiously negative: "It is impossible to determine beyond reasonable doubt which injuries on the deceased were caused by justifiable and which by unjustifiable blows," or "which particular person struck the blows...
...Kenya, where officials hoped the whole thing would blow over soon, compensation (between $300 and $600) was promised to families of the victims and the government announced that a commission from Britain would study Kenya's prison-camp system. Last week authorities let Kenya newspapermen fly into the remote Hola camp for a firsthand look. But they were not allowed to see the one-acre inner enclosure where the toughest of the prisoners remain. Reason: scores of the inmates are now on a hunger strike...