Obama's relative 'among Mau Mau torture victims'

The Kenyan case In June 2013, Her Majesty's Government was required to pay 19.9 million pounds in compensation to some 5,000 elderly Kenyans who were tortured and abused during the Mau Mau (an English bastardised name for "muingi" or ...

In my previous submission I wrote about generating visions that transcend generations. This generated a lot of debate with some respondents arguing that the visions must be smart (i.e., specific, achievable, realistic, measurable and time bound). ...

Sorry, Elton John would have it, seems to be the hardest word. Not least for political leaders righting painful historical wrongs. David Cameron's 2010 apology for Bloody Sunday took 38 years to come, but in the end, to the British prime minister's ...

Viewd by: 14 Not rated yet 6 June 2013 Veterans of Mau Mau, Kenya's independence struggle rebellion movement, sing and dance in celebration during a press conference attended by the British High Commissioner Christian Turner at a hotel in ...

NAIROBI, KENYA: The International Criminal Court ( ICC) trials had become front and centre and a headache for President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto. Were they going to run with charges hanging over their head? A Jubilee source says ...

Countercurrents.org A tyrant or a torturer facing trial was unimaginable in the 1950s and 60s and 70s. But trials of tyrants are not strange now. In those days in the last century, band of butchers tyrants was in abundance in countries. A slow ...

The British government is negotiating payments to thousands of Kenyans who were detained and severely mistreated during the 1950s Mau Mau insurgency. Mau Mau veterans in front of the British prime minister's residence at 10 Downing Street. (Reuters) ...

Deportation has become a near-taboo word. Yet the recent Boston bombings inevitably rekindle old questions about the way the United States admits, or at times deports, foreign nationals. Despite the Obama administration's politically driven and ...

Immigration system: Washington created this crisis, lawmakers like the Gang of Eight failed at their primary duty to protect America's citizens Comments | Print friendly | Subscribe | Email Us The Gang of Eight's 844-page immigration reform ...