Word: mau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...routine week in Kenya's brutal Mau Mau...
...retired R.A.F. officer, was pedaling his tricycle outside his home when a terrorist bounded out of the woods. The terrorist swung his panga at the child's curly head and all but decapitated the boy. Captured, the Kikuyu tribesman said he had just taken the Mau Mau oath which pledged him to behead a European...
...Nairobi's supreme court, a 17-year-old Briton serving in the colony's emergency police force was found guilty of technical assault for tossing lighted matches at a Mau Mau suspect, and his Kikuyu assistant was convicted of pouring paraffin over the head of the suspect and setting him afire...
...like Korea, where the great issues of the day are fought with means that are often pathetically small. It is a guerrilla war like Kenya, where no one knows who the enemy is. The man who serves your food and drives your car may be in one country a Mau Mau and in the other a Viet Minh. It is a colonial war, not so much in reality any more, but still so in the minds of some Frenchmen who have not unlearned the past, and in the minds of some Vietnamese who will not forget...
Admittedly, Mau Mau threats against human life and order must be stopped. At the same time, however, soldiers, policemen and journalists will serve human decency, better by remembering that even Kenya Mau Mau are human beings. It is difficult to realize that your March 8 report, "The Fusiliers bagged 76 Mau Mau," concerns men, not jack rabbits or quail...