• The British government used concentration camps during the 1952–1960 Mau Mau Uprising in British Kenya. Thomas Askwith, the official tasked with designing...
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    The Mau Mau rebellion (1952–1960), also known as the Mau Mau uprising, Mau Mau revolt, or Kenya Emergency, was a war in the British Kenya Colony (1920–1963)...
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    This is a list of internment and concentration camps, organized by country. In general, a camp or group of camps is designated to the country whose government...
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  • committed during World War II. The term "concentration camp" was used to describe camps operated by the British Empire in South Africa during the Second...
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    over 150,000 suspected Mau Mau members and sympathizers (mostly from the Kikuyu people) into concentration camps. In these camps, the colonial authorities...
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    by members of the King's African Rifles B Company in June 1953 with 20 unarmed people killed during the Mau Mau uprising. Members of the 5th KAR B Company...
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    complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World...
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  • concentration camps in order to try and coerce them into repudiating the Mau Mau oath; hundreds of thousands of Kikuyus were imprisoned in the camps during...
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    insurgencies such as the Malayan Emergency, the Mau Mau Uprising, and the Cyprus Emergency. In 1951, the British government announced plans which stipulated...
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    blood-libels against Britain won her the Pulitzer Prize. "British colonial 'cover up' in Mau Mau camp revealed in new secret document release". The Daily Telegraph...
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    popular uprising by Palestinian Arabs in Mandatory Palestine against the British administration of the Palestine Mandate, later known as The Great Revolt...
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  • hosted concentration camps or lost substantial portions of their Jewish populations to the gas chambers and, consequently, the Holocaust and the fate of Central...
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  • set up for Mau Mau. It was also the name of another militant group that sprang up briefly in the spring of 1960; the group was broken up during a brief operation...
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  • The Bettleheim paper appearing in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology is a unique document, insofar as it was published while the concentration camps and...
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    needed] During the Mau Mau uprising in the 1950s, captured Mau Mau members who switched sides and specially trained British troops initiated the pseudo-gang...
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    The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya, detailing the Mau Mau Uprising against British rule and its suppression by the colonial government. The...
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  • included the SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV), which ran the Nazi concentration and extermination camps. The following list of SS personnel gives the names of notable...
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  • authorities during the Mau Mau Uprising. Most of the clergy were put in concentration camps, and churches and schools were closed. Only the Cathedral in Nairobi...
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    in the British Army. The term "concentration camp" was used to describe camps operated by the British in South Africa during this conflict in the years...
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    meant that the Kenyan counter-insurgency was inspired by colonial methods, such as those taken by the British during the Mau Mau Uprising, which had been...
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    victims of rape and torture by the British military during the Mau Mau Uprising. In popular Malaysian culture, the Emergency has frequently been portrayed...
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    signalled the defeat of the Mau Mau. However, the rebellion survived until after Kenya's independence from Britain. The Mau Mau Uprising was described by...
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  • these tactics, the British under Kitchener interned Boer civilians into concentration camps and built hundreds of blockhouses all over the Transvaal and...
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    expansion of the Russian Empire in the preceding Russo-Turkish Wars, and the British and French preference to preserve the Ottoman Empire to maintain the balance...
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    of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), leading the Autumn Harvest Uprising in 1927. During the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang (KMT) and the CCP...
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  • Vulture (2016-01-26). "The Powerful, Record-Breaking The Birth of a Nation Is Uncompromising in Its Story of a Slave Uprising". Vulture. Retrieved 2024-03-11...
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    Knives: 48 Hours that Changed the History of the World. New York: The Lyons Press. ISBN 978-1-59921-070-4. Mau, Herman (1972). "The 'Second Revolution' – June...
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    needed] The Sikhs conquered Hazara although could not take back Peshawar due to the high concentration of troops.[citation needed] The Sikhs looted the Munshees...
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    Churchill's government maintained the military response to the crisis and adopted a similar strategy for the Mau Mau Uprising in British Kenya (1952–1960). Churchill...
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    years of good relations between Britain and Afghanistan, under the leadership of Abdur Rahman Khan and Habibullah Khan, during which time the British attempted...
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