NAIROBI, Nov 1 — “There were abhorrent and unjustifiable acts of violence committed against Kenyans as they waged... a painful struggle for independence and sovereignty,”...
Britain's King Charles III attends the State Banquet hosted by Kenyan President William Ruto at the State House in Nairobi on October 31, 2023. — Pool pic via AFPNAIROBI, Nov 1 — “There were abhorrent and unjustifiable acts of violence committed against Kenyans as they waged... a painful struggle for independence and sovereignty,” Charles said at a state banquet hosted by Kenyan President William Ruto.
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.
“None of this can change the past but by addressing our history with honesty and openness, we can perhaps demonstrate the strength of our friendship today, and in so doing, we can I hope continue to build an ever-closer bond for the years ahead,” he said.“It culminated in the Emergency, which intensified the worst excesses of colonial impunity and the indiscriminate victimisation of Africans,” he said at the state banquet.
Then foreign secretary William Hague said Britain “sincerely regrets” the abuses but stopped short of a full apology. Charles has previously made three official visits and this week’s tour is being staged 40 years since his mother’s state visit in November 1983.
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