Word: knifemen
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...settlers went in fear of unseen Mau Mau snipers. One family found that its servants had fled to join the Mau Mau, leaving the beheaded trunks of its loyal "boys" sprawled across the doorstep. At Thomson's Falls, Dr. Ian Meiklejohn was slashed to death by Mau-Mau knifemen; in retribution, British troops rounded up every Kikuyu in a area surrounding the murder scene, drove off their cattle, sheep and goats and pulled down every native hut in sight...
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