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...still trust my Kukes," said a quiet, older man. He spoke a little defiantly. "They're not all Mau Mau...
...tell you," said the red-faced man, downing his fourth brandy, "how the Rucks were murdered. The Mau Mau were on the farm for three days, hiding in the huts of the Rucks' 'trusted, loyal' Kukes. Nobody told the Rucks. When Roger Ruck spoke to one of his Kukes, the Kuke grinned, and said, 'Yes, bwana.' He didn't say, 'Bwana, it's all decided, we're going to kill you tonight.' When Mrs. Ruck was handing out medicine to sick Kukes, they didn't say, 'Look...
They were very bitter, up there in Thomson's Falls-and at Naro Moru, and Ol Kalou, and at Nyeri, and on the Kinangop, and in all that Mau Mau-infested country -about the politicians in Nairobi. "They sit," said a farmer vehemently, "on their fat behinds, in their nice offices, and make up soothing speeches. What we need is more men-far more men-and more action...
...used to think reforms, especially economic, would solve most race problems," said Blundell. "But you just can't fight Mau Mau with new schools and indoor lavatories." This is how Blundell sees Mau Mau: "The Kikuyu have acquired our civilization faster than any of the other tribes. Mau Mau, however, is confined to the Kikuyu. Why? We whites are to blame. We've forced the Kikuyu to try to assimilate 2,000 years of civilization in 50. The result has been mental bewilderment, spiritual frustration. Mau Mau is a deliberate going back to primitive ways. They...
Blundell has advised farmers to "get rid of all Kikuyu or at least never to let a Kikuyu enter the farmhouse after dark. I've been told this was drastic, brutal and unnecessary. But the Mau Mau oath has a terrible binding power. One Kikuyu who had worked on a farm for 25 years went to his bwana. 'I'm leaving,' he said. 'They made me take the Mau Mau oath. This means they may ask me to kill you and I won't want to be in a position where I could obey...