Word: mau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...failed in 1905 - the 1,000-odd Nandi tribesmen of the Laikipia forest have been among the best behaved and most loyal natives in Kenya. As members of Britain's native army and the Kenya police, Nandi trackers and jungle fighters played a big part in suppressing the Mau Mau terrorists of the rival Kikuyu tribe, and the government even went so far as to urge those who stayed in the bush to arm themselves in a sort of informal native civil-defense corps. Happy as kids let out of school to fight a grass fire, the Nandi promptly...
...Asians of British Rhodesia and Nyasaland are trying to learn how to submerge their differences in a common federation, and experimenting with graduated extension of the franchise so that the outnumbered whites can maintain their dominance. Paced by the British, with the frightening memory of yesterday's Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya to spur them on, the white masters in the remaining territories of Middle Africa are plunging headlong into an uncertain future, making concessions usually a step behind the demands-and sometimes a step ahead of the capacity-of their once submissive but now impatient peoples...
...from his native village, was her son, Dedan Kimathi, 36, self-styled Field Marshal, Knight Commander of the African Empire, President of the Parliament of Kenya and Commander in Chief of the Land Liberation Army, the man once feared through all Kenya as the leader of some 10,000 Mau Mau terrorists...
...very glad and thankful," said Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd, to bring "heartening news" to a House of Commons that had been hearing bad news all week. His news: the end of the Mau Mau war. Britain's dirtiest and most tedious war was over, after four years in which 10,505 Mau Mau terrorists were killed, at the price of 1,168 casualties among native and British forces, and close to 3,000 civilians killed or wounded...
Martial law is at an end, but the state of emergency continues, permitting the government to hold 42,000 Mau Maus in prison camps-34,000 without trial because the government lacks evidence to convict but fears to turn them free...