The London High court in the UK has given a go ahead to Mau Mau’s compensation case against British Government despite a 50 year time lapse. Case now to go to full trial.
The Guardian reported three elderly Kenyans have won an historic legal victory over the British government after the high court gave them permission to claim damages for the grave abuses they suffered when imprisoned during the Mau Mau rebellion.
The three suffered what their lawyers describe as “unspeakable acts of brutality”, including castration, beatings and severe sexual assaults.
The British government’s lawyers have accepted that all three were tortured by the colonial authorities, so even though the case now has to go to a full trial, it is expected to be settled promptly with the payment of damages.
However, an estimated 2,000 other Kenyans – the survivors of more than 70,000 Mau Mau suspects who were imprisoned during the seven-year insurgency in the 1950s — are now expected to come forward to sue the British government.
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