Word: mau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forest north of Nairobi, a gang of Mau Mau terrorists struck at an African village, captured a Kikuyu tribesman known to be loyal to the British, and chopped off his head. Round their wrists the terrorists wore bangles of human skin, stripped from the flesh of earlier victims. Their commander in chief, scar-faced "General" Dedan Kimathi, had offered them $7 for every dead Kikuyu, $16.80 for every dead Briton...
...catch the terrorists, a patrol of the famed Black Watch cornered 60 of them in a wood near the village of Thika. The Scots set fire to the wood, and in the glare of burning trees, their armored cars raked the area with heavy machine-gun fire. The Mau Mau fired back, and in the very first volley, brought down the patrol leader with a homemade rifle. A veteran of Burma, he bore a soldierly name: Major Archibald John Arthur Wavell, only son of the late Field Marshal Earl Wavell...
...Lyttelton announced the first constructive program to remove the causes of Kenya's bitter war against the Mau Mau. Britain will allocate $14 million to finance a far-reaching development plan for African agriculture. The money will do far less good today, after 14 months of bloodshed, than it might have done a year ago, but at least the government's plan looked to the future. The Labor opposition, by contrast, looked only to the past...
Hands Tied. Shocked by Lyttelton's disclosure that in the last eleven months 2,821 Mau Mau-and Mau Mau "suspects"-have been killed and only 980 captured, the Socialists last week condemned Whitehall's "Shoot to kill" order against the terrorists. Ex-Grenadier Guardsman Lyttelton repulsed them in character: "I am not yet prepared . . . to allow British soldiers in these forest areas to . . . fight entirely with their hands tied behind their backs...
Another Briton, Captain Gerald Selby Lewis Griffiths, 43, was court-martialed in a wooden hut in the heart of the Mau Mau badlands. He was accused of murdering a captured Negro forest worker suspected of belonging to Mau Mau, and of ordering his African rifleman to "shoot anyone you want, so long as he is black." Griffiths told the court that he kept a Scoreboard in his officers' mess, recording the number of Mau Mau kills and captures. His company was aiming to raise its total to 50 kills, and to encourage his men he offered them a five...