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Word: mau (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Against the barbaric savagery of the Mau Mau, Kenya's Britons fight back with the efficient weapons of the 20th century, and occasionally with a passion that matches that of their attackers. Last week, while the R.A.F. blasted the Nyeri forests with 1,000-pound bombs, which were supposed to scare the Mau Mau out of their hidden lairs, British justice took up the subject of two overzealous officers accused of matching the Mau Mau's cruelties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: Background | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

...Salaam, capital of the neighboring British protectorate of Tanganyika. 19-year-old Brian Hay ward and a handful of African 'troopers under his command were found guilty of 1) .tying up Mau Mau suspects with thongs round their necks, 2) whipping the soles of their feet, 3) burning their eardrums with lighted cigarettes. Hay ward was fined ?100 ($280) and jailed for three months, but the English judge did not think that the soldiers should be judged too severely. "It is easy to work oneself up into a state of pious horror over these offenses," said he, "but they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: Background | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

...faced Dedan Kimathi served together in Ethiopia as members of the King's African Rifles. When the war was over, Davidson returned to bored peacefulness in Sydney. Kimathi, a onetime Kikuyu schoolteacher, went on to become the almost legendary "General Russia," fiercest chieftain of Kenya's bloodthirsty Mau Man terrorists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: My Buddy | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

...tangled underbrush, catching fitful respite in a sleeping bag from the cold of African nights, alert always for the animal and human enemies lurking in every shadow. Once he drew close enough to Kimathi to exchange messages on a forked stick left standing alone in a clearing, but the Mau Mau leader eluded him before he could draw closer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: My Buddy | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

...tent made of bamboo and skins in an Aberdare bamboo forest. Accepting help for once, he led a charge of African riflemen into the tent. A burst of submachine-gun fire caught him in the belly and the shoulder. Keeping on his feet only long enough to club his Mau Mau assailant (who was not Kimathi) to death, Davo fell to the ground. He was rushed from the jungle to a hospital in Nairobi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: My Buddy | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

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