Britain's King Charles and Queen Camilla began the second day of a state visit to Kenya on Wednesday as survivors of colonial-era abuses criticised his failure to issue a full apology or propose reparations.
for what he called abhorrent and unjustifiable acts of violence committed against Kenyans during the country's independence struggle.
British colonialists also committed gross human rights violations, including land expropriation, killings, torture and sexual violence, against hundreds of thousands of people inCharles' visit comes at a time when former colonies are demanding that Britain do more to recognise the abuses of its colonial past. Some - notably Barbados and Jamaica - have been re-evaluating their ties to the monarchy.
"Acknowledgement alone is not enough," said David Ngasura, a historian from the Talai clan in western Kenya, whose members were forced from their land in the 1930s and sent to detention camps."I am yet to hear him about compensation and reparations by the British government to the victims of historical injustices meted by the British colonial government."
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