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...week, a detachment of Kenya cops, supported by armored cars, marched into Pumwani, a filth-strewn warren where a large part of Nairobi's 60-odd thousand Kikuyu somehow find space to live. Dragged from their mud huts, 20,000 Kukes were herded into compounds; 2,500 suspected Mau Mau terrorists were culled from among them and clapped into jail. Next day there were more arrests; another 3,500 "suspects" were seized near Thika...
...mass arrests were intended to forestall a rumored Mau Mau massacre, which Kenyans grimly referred to as "the Night of Long Knives." But the long knives were already whetted, and would not be stayed.. The Mau Mau took its revenge for the mass arrests, not on the hated white man but on sleeping Kikuyu whose only offense was a desire to live in peace...
...people of Chief Luka of Lari had banded together in an African Home Guard to keep out the Mau Mau. They were asleep in their huts as the silent Mau Mau warriors moved in for the kill. The first wave of attackers barred each hut door, the next, carrying torches, set fire to the grass roofs. Then, as the terrified villagers came stumbling out of the blaze, the executioners went to work with long sharp knives...
...there is little likelihood that either murder or muddle will halt soon. The sullen masses of evicted blacks in the overrun reserves; the white farmers and their wives besieged in their farmhouses with revolvers next to the dinner plates; the bearded commandos stumbling through forests after the elusive Mau Mau; the brittle Mayfair-in-suburbia life of spuriously gay Nairobi ; the purple-faced ex-colonels in the very, very particular Rift Valley Club- none of them seeming to know what to do. Not even the Mau Mau themselves seem to know what they really want-except to kill and disembowel...
Nobody can guess how long it may drag on, how far Mau Mauism may spread, how infectious its example might prove to be. What thoughts pass through the minds of Samburu, Turkana, Wakamba or Masai tribesmen as they watch the white man harried by the hitherto despised and pacific Kikuyu? What thoughts down in Central Africa, where the British plan a political federation opposed by the natives, or in Uganda or the Belgian Congo? In South Africa, the Negro-hating Boers use the Mau Mau's terror to win support for even more brutal suppression of the nonwhites. Kenya...