On his first day in Nairobi on Tuesday, the 74-year-old British head of state said the 'wrongdoings of the past are a cause of the greatest sorrow and the deepest regret', but stopped short of an apology.
NAIROBI - King Charles III met Kenyan veterans of World World II on Wednesday, after acknowledging there was "no excuse" for colonial-era abuses during Britain's rule of the East African country.
On his first day in Nairobi on Tuesday, the 74-year-old British head of state said the "wrongdoings of the past are a cause of the greatest sorrow and the deepest regret", but stopped short of an apology. Charles has previously made three official visits to Kenya, but this is his first tour of an African and Commonwealth nation since becoming king last year upon the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth II.On Wednesday, Charles and Camilla visited a war cemetery in Nairobi to honour Africans who died for Britain in two world wars, laying a wreath in front of their graves before meeting Kenyan veterans, some in wheelchairs.
"There were a lot of people who were not happy we... fought in the war," said Mburia, who served in Egypt, Ethiopia and Myanmar. The gardens were built on the site of a camp where British colonial authorities detained suspected Mau Mau guerrillas during the suppression of their 1952-1960 uprising.The so-called "Emergency" period was one of the bloodiest insurgencies of the British empire and at least 10,000 people - mainly from the Kikuyu tribe - were killed, although some put the true figures much higher.
The Star said in an editorial that demands for reparations were "unrealistic", adding: "What can King Charles fix today?"
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