Looks like toothfish won’t save the British Foreign Office this time. The judge presiding over the matter, Justice McCombe, has ruled that the four Kenyan claimants, Jane Muthoni Mara, Paulo Muoka Nzili, Ndiku Mutua and Wambugu Wa Nyingi now have permission to sue the British Foreign Office for their alleged torture by British colonial authorities […]
“We can handle the truth. Can you handle the shame?”
May 31, 2011 By 6 Comments
I interviewed my colleague at SUNY-Oswego, Faith Maina, just as the story broke about Britain’s involvement in human rights atrocities in Kenya. Faith was only born after Kenya attained independence; but her father—a teacher—was detained twice during the Mau Mau uprising; afterwards, he could only get a job as a “boy” in the city. Her family also lost their lands, […]
Mau Mau and Toothfish
April 7, 2011 By 7 Comments
In the same week that the US attorney general, Eric Holder, announced that “key suspects” detained at Guantánamo would be tried through controversial military commissions, rather than in federal court—blaming members of Congress for intervening and imposing restrictions that blocked the administration from bringing any Guantánamo detainees to trial in the US—Great Britain, another champion […]
