Kenya research

KENYA

1903 – A trail, Thomas Cholmondeley heir to the Delamere fortune. A family who farmed in Kenya since the third Baron arrived in 1903, they own land. Talk in Kenya of forced repossession of farms owned by whites. (Empires children ©2009 Anton Gill).

1920-1953 – In 1949 when David Steel was 11, his parents decided to move to Kenya. Scottish population in Kenya and Uganda. Declared a colony in 1920, Kenya has British settlers, but there is segregation of blacks and whites. (Empires children ©2009 Anton Gill).

1940-60 – By the 1940s 30,000 British farmers had 12,000 square miles of land in Kenya. Poverty, starvation and landless native people. Oct 1952 British governor was Sir Evelyn Baring. State of emergency. Arrest and detention of many people from March 1953 in detention camps in Kenya. State of emergency until 12 Jan 1960, propaganda about the Mau Mau. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).

15 Nov 1952 – Sir Thomas Lloyd and Sir Evelyn Baring. The Times UK. Intel and counter intel on Kenya. 22 Nov 1952. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).

End 1952 – Mass deportations and detentions of about 78,000 native people in Kenya. By the end of 1952 at least 18,000 Kenyans were held in custody in 176 detention centres .Abuse of detainees, interrogated Mau Mau. Forced relocation of mass population. Women were raped and abused. Compared to Soviet gulag. Torture in Kenya by police. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).

1952-54 – Kenya, a police state, forced registrations, detention without trial as punishment. Alex MacDonald was the Colonial officer and intel advisor. Kenya special branch. Propaganda, operation Jock Scott on 20 Oct 1952 declaration of emergency. Operation Anvil on April 1954 repression, coercion. 45,000 people forcibly removed from Namibia. 16,500 detained in camps. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).

1952-56 – Kenya, British colonial rule 1950s, violent counter insurgency and rebellion, Mau Mau. Oct 1953 till 1956. British forces held 20,000 Africans. The British incarcerated at least 80,000 native Africans in camps. Forced labour like the Soviet gulag system. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).

End 1952 – Mass deportations and detentions of about 78,000 native people in Kenya. By the end of 1952 at least 18,000 Kenyans were held in custody in 176 detention centres. Abuse of detainees, interrogated Mau Mau. Forced relocation of mass population. Women were raped and abused. Compared to Soviet gulag. Torture in Kenya by police. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).

Dec 1952 – 20,000 Mau Mau killed and many more disappeared. One million people were forcibly displaced. Women were raped. Property was confiscated. Records from the foreign office were held in an archive at Hanslope park. M15 and Mau Mau in Kenya. In Dec 1952 Alec MacDonald flew to Nairobi as an M15 officer. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).

10 Dec 1953 – Court of inquiry, letter to Erskine to security. Torture and the height of empire. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).

June 1957 – Eric Griffiths Jones was attorney general of the British government in Kenya. Secrecy about detention camps for the Mau Mau. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).

18 June 1963 – Organisation of intel service in the colony Kenya. British governor Nairobi to FD Webber. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton (c)2013).

14 Aug 1963 – Griffith Jones to FD Webber. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).

29 December 1972 – Stuart Hugh MacDonald born Nairobi Kenya.

9 August 1975 – Kirstin Fiona MacDonald born Nairobi Kenya.

30 October 1984 – Martin David MacDonald born Nairobi Kenya.

2002 – br John Paschal Prendergast. Christian brothers at Saint Bakhita, in Kitale north west Kenya. Catholic.

Late 2004 – A ton of cocaine was seized in Kenya. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).

2005 – Caroline Elkins. Britains gulag, the brutal end of empire in Kenya. London Jonathan Cape.

2005 – David Anderson. Histories of the hanged. Britains dirty war in Kenya and the end of empire. London Weidenfeld and Nicolson.

2008 – Crowd sourcing data through Ushahidi platform, software tool for info collection and interactive mapping, of the 2008 Kenyan elections. To monitor elections, conflicts and other things around the world. (Black code. Ronald J Deibert ©2013 Canada).

2009 – A group of Kenyans got a lawyer. Sued the British govt for gross abuses while held as Mau May 50 years ago. During colonial emergency in Kenya. The existence of 8,800 files from the colonial office appeared. Records recovered, were to cover up govt abuses and torture. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton (c)2013).

2011-2012 – In 2011 the foreign office opened 1,500 classified files on the Kenyan Mau Mau in 300 boxes. At a secret facility at Hanslope park. Secret records made public in Aug 2012. Mau Mau were beaten to death, burned alive, castrated and kept in manacles for years. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).

13 April 2011 – Ben Macintyre. The Times UK. British Secret Mau Mau files.(Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).

2012 – Kenya a history since independence. Charles Hornsby. Google books.

2013 – CRA crisis tracker data, plotted on Ushahidi from radios, to monitor each incident plotted on a map, deaths and injuries, abductions and looting. Incidents captured by mobile cameras, on a website and evidence. In Kibera, Nairobi Kenya’s largest slum. Local officials witheld electricity and rubbish collection. Water is controlled by corrupt officials. (Black code. Ronald J Deibert. ©2013 Canada).

Dec 2014 – UK Daily. British man found guilty of sexually abusing Kenyan street children. Leighday UK.

20 Jan 2015 – ABC online. Kenyan police fired tear gas at children in a playground. Nairobi school children, illegal confiscation of playground.

7 June 2015 – Yahoo news. Trial set for Oklahoma man accused of sex abuse of Kenyan orphans. AP Tim Talley. Paedophile from the US.

12 June 2015 – VOA. Kenya risks US sanctions for failing to stop human trafficking.