{{The UK will compensate thousands of Kenyans tortured by colonial forces during an uprising that began as the British Empire wound down, a lawyer and expert witness have said.}}<\/p>\n
“We have agreed on an out-of-court settlement,” Kenyan lawyer Paul Muite, an advisor to the Mau Mau veterans seeking compensation, told the Reuters news agency on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
“[The negotiations] have included everybody with sufficient evidence of torture. And that number is about 5,200,” he said, declining to comment on the size of the payout.<\/p>\n
Britain’s foreign office declined to comment on UK media reports that the settlement would total $21.5m.<\/p>\n
Negotiations began after a London court ruled in October that three elderly Kenyans, who suffered castration, rape and beatings while in detention during a crackdown by British forces and their Kenyan allies in the 1950s, could sue Britain.<\/p>\n
The torture took place during the so-called Kenyan Emergency of 1952-60, when fighters from the Mau Mau movement attacked British targets, causing panic among white settlers.<\/p>\n
A formal announcement on the settlement is expected later on Thursday.<\/p>\n
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