Word: kikuyu
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...used to think reforms, especially economic, would solve most race problems," said Blundell. "But you just can't fight Mau Mau with new schools and indoor lavatories." This is how Blundell sees Mau Mau: "The Kikuyu have acquired our civilization faster than any of the other tribes. Mau Mau, however, is confined to the Kikuyu. Why? We whites are to blame. We've forced the Kikuyu to try to assimilate 2,000 years of civilization in 50. The result has been mental bewilderment, spiritual frustration. Mau Mau is a deliberate going back to primitive ways. They...
Blundell has advised farmers to "get rid of all Kikuyu or at least never to let a Kikuyu enter the farmhouse after dark. I've been told this was drastic, brutal and unnecessary. But the Mau Mau oath has a terrible binding power. One Kikuyu who had worked on a farm for 25 years went to his bwana. 'I'm leaving,' he said. 'They made me take the Mau Mau oath. This means they may ask me to kill you and I won't want to be in a position where I could obey...
...Blundell's own farm, the Mau Mau oath administrators arrived one night at the huts, tortured several of his Kikuyu into taking the oath. The victims were beaten almost to death, and half-strangled. Only one, a sobbing teen-ager dared confide in Blundell what had happened. And the chief oath administrator was a well-dressed, well-educated young Kikuyu whom the Blundells had fully trusted...
From most farms around the Aberdares, and from the Rift Valley, Kikuyu families are being evicted by the thousands (25,000 people, men, women & children from the Rift Valley alone). These families had "squatted" on the white farms, giving labor in exchange for a little land and a little cash. Now they are being returned to the Kikuyu reserves-whether they had land in the reserves or not. Most had not; the Kenya government hopes their relatives will feed them...
...strain-yet-but they are playing it rough. After the massacre of the Ruck family, Kukes were rounded up in large numbers, marched to a barbed-wire camp for "screening," beaten and kicked (reliable witnesses say) en route, including women with babies strapped on their backs. The number of Kikuyu "shot trying to escape" has risen in remarkable fashion. One Kenya police reserve unit hauled in four Kikuyu men. The prisoners were taken away in a truck, but when the truck reached its destination, all four Kikuyu were dead. It was said that they had "tried to escape." None...