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by Caroline Elkins

attitudes toward, and lack of reforms

  attitudes toward, as having legitimate grievance

  Baring’s arrival and

  British parallel responses to

  changing view of, after interviews and research of

  charade of colonial trusteeship exposed by

  Christian church and

  confiscations and collective punishments to combat

  courts and convictions of

  economic and social welfare problems, in Chinn report

  fueled by exploitative British system

  government ban on

  government report on, in 1960

  grassroots support for, on eve of war

  hated by loyalists for opposition to privilege of

  high-profile murders by

  independence and former

  initiation ceremony and oathing

  intelligentsia of, in prison and camps

  leaders arrested, at beginning of Emergency

  leadership and social order of, within camps

  loyalist informants targeted by

  murders, during Kenyatta trial

  number killed by British

  number of, on eve of war

  oath takers defections

  origin of, after WW II

  passive wing organized by

  portrayal of, as barbaric

  roundup of suspects

  screening

  strikes of

  treatment of, devoid of humanity

  Waruhiu loathed by

  Mbote, Mary

  Mbotela, Tom, murder of

  Mboya, Tom

  Medical Department

  medical treatment

  barbed-wire villages and

  letters from detainees on

  works camps

  Meiklejohn, Ian “Jock,”

  Meinertzhagen, Richard

  Meldon, Philip

  Men Who Ruled India, The (Mason)

  Meru District

  Meru

  Methodist missionaries

  Milner, Alfred

  Ministry of African Affairs

  Ministry of Community Development and Rehabilitation

  Ministry of Finance

  Ministry of Local Government, Health, and Housing

  missionaries

  ambivalence of, on brutality and protests

  archives

  Athi River Camp

  barbed-wire villages and

  beatings of

  definition of loyalism and

  detainees and

  female circumcision and

  interviews with

  Kamiti Camp and

  orphans and

  preach to women detainees

  Protestant, vs. Catholic

  protests by

  screenings and

  tour camps and file reports

  missionary schools

  Mitchell, Philip

  Mlango wa Simba (Entrance to the Lion, nickname)

  Moi, Daniel T. arap

  Molo, forced removals from

  Moral Rearmament Movement (MRA)

  Morrison, Sam

  Mortimer, Charles

  Mountbatten, Lady Edwina

  Mountbatten, Lord

  Mount Kenya

  civilian supply lines to

  guerrillas in forests of

  Kikuyu religion and

  Movement for Colonial Freedom

  movement restrictions

  Muchiri, Esther

  Mugenda, Karumbi

  Mugwe, Lucy Ngima

  Muhoro, Charles

  Mukurweini camp

  Mumbi (mythical ancestor)

  Mundia, Chief

  Mungai, Rahab

  Mung’etho village

  Mununga village massacre

  Murage, Wachira

  Murang’a District

  Muriithi, Wandia wa

  Murithi, Kariuki

  Muriu, Eliud

  Muriuki, Milka

  Murphy, Pelly

  Murumbi, Joseph

  Muru wa Itina (Son of the Buttocks, nickname)

  Mutahi, Gathoni

  Mutahi, Munyi

  Mutahi, Muraya

  Muthaiga Club

  Mwai, Charles

  Mwai, Marion Wambui

  Mwangi, Kariuki

  Mwangi, Major (prison officer)

  Mwangi, Njuguna Robinson

  Mwaniki, Henry Muoria

  Mwea camps

  Mwea/Tebere irrigation scheme

  Mwea uprising

  Mweru Camp

  “My Two Years in Kenya” (Meldon)

  Nairobi

  barbed-wire cordons in

  “D-day” launch of Anvil in

  dehumanization of Mau Mau in

  deportations from

  dispossessed squatters in

  screening parades and

  vigilantes nearby

  Nairobi City Council

  Naivasha

  Police Station strike

  Nakuru Transit Camp

  Narok Camp

  National Democratic Party

  Native Affairs Department

  Native Land Rights Confiscation Orders

  Nazi concentration camps

  ndaki (holding cells)

  Ndegwa, Ruth

  Nderi, Chief

  Ndirangu, Wilson

  Nehru, Jawaharlal

  New Guinea

  New Kenya Group

  New Statesman and Nation

  New Zealand

  Ngai (Kikuyu creator God)

  Ngei, Paul

  Ngenya Camp

  Ngindira (the Stuffer, nickname)

  Ngulot Camp

  nicknames, for colonial agents

  night blindness

  Njeri, Shelmith

  Njeru, Elijah Gideon

  Njiiri, Senior Chief

  Njooro, Muringo

  Njoroge, Karega

  Njoroge, Wilson

  Njuki, Hunja

  Nkrumah, Kwame

  North Tetu Division

  Nottingham, John

  nutritional diseases

  Nyagaki (pressed Khaki uniform, nickname)

  Nyambura, Mary

  Nyanza Province

  Nyaruai, Margaret

  Nyasaland

  Nyeri District

  confiscations of livestock in

  deportations and

  Home Guard trial of 1954 and

  Kikuyu reserves in

  massacres of civilians in

  police brutality in

  screenings and

  settlement scheme for

  villagization in

  works camps in

  Nyeri Prison

  Nyumbura, Mary

  oaths and oathing. See also confession; screening

  ceremony, in camps

  ceremony, origin and power of

  continued, during Emergency

  Home Guard and

  Kenyatta trial and

  percent of Kikuyu having taken

  press coverage of

  screening and

  white settlers fear of

  Observer

  Odinga, Oginga

  Official Secrets Act

  O’Hagan, Desmond

  Ohanga, Beniah

  Olenguruone squatters, oathing and

  Oneko, Achieng’

  One with the Crooked Nose (British district officer, nickname)

  open camps

  “Open Letter form Leaders of Christian Churches in Kenya, An,”

  Operation Anvil

  Operation Bibi

  Operation Jock Scott

  Operation Progress

  Othaya Division

  Owen, Colin

  Palestine

  Pan African Congress

  passive-wing organization

  pass laws. See also movement restrictions

  Peace News (periodical)

  pellagra

  Perham, Dame Margery

  Perkerra Open Camp

 
; Perry, Fred

  Perth, Lord

  Peterson, Chief

  Pipeline. See also detainees; detention without trial; rehabilitation; works camps; and specific camps, issues, and prisons

  Anvil arrests and population in

  Askwith defines

  Askwith’s rehabilitation teams and

  Baring shapes

  based on terror and degradation

  British colonialism laid bare in

  campaign to empty, Gavaghan and

  Castle told about, by McPherson

  chart

  Christian missionaries in

  collaborators and

  communications within

  confession only beginning of road out of

  consolidation of camps and prisons and completion of

  decision to eliminate hard-core detainees in

  detainees moved within, according to cooperation and origin

  dilution technique introduced in

  divide-and-rule techniques begin to work in

  experience of detainees in

  funding and administrative problems

  guard-detainee relations in

  guards and commandants in

  health and sanitation problems in

  homosexuality and

  indoctrination into

  internal order of detainees in

  Kamiti Camp and

  Kikuyu religion and

  Lennox-Boyd and

  letters from detainees in

  Lewis given power over

  literary production in

  news gathered in

  number of camps and prisons in

  number of detainees in, in 1956

  ordinary virtues in

  purpose of

  repatriation from, to reserves

  riot squads in

  transfer to works camps in home districts and

  Portugal

  Potter, Henry

  Powell, Enoch

  prayer sessions, secret

  Presbyterian missionaries

  press

  Bewes meets with

  Hola Massacre and

  information on torture and

  Kamiti Camp and

  Law interview and

  Lennox-Boyd and

  local colonial

  Lokitaung prisoners letter and

  protests by

  rehabilitation and

  Prisons Department. See also Lewis, John “Taxi”

  guards and

  juveniles and

  Malaya and

  rehabilitation and

  repatriation and

  works camps and

  Pritt, Dennis Lowell

  Privy Council (Britain)

  Probation Department

  Profumo, John

  provincial commissioners

  pseudogangsters

  Psychology of Mau Mau, The (Carothers)

  Public Record Office in London

  Public Works Department

  pyrethrum production

  racism

  rape. See also sexual violence

  aftermath of, and return of men

  barbed-wire villages and

  overseen by Gavaghan

  Rawcliffe, D. H.

  “reception” centers

  Anvil and

  Baring and

  codes of conduct in

  letters from detainees on

  renamed holding camps

  transfers from

  torture in

  Reconstruction Committee

  Red Cross

  Reemtsma, Jan Philipp

  rehabilitation

  Askwith report on

  Askwith researches

  Askwith shifts, to reserves

  controlled by Prisons Department

  documents survive purgings

  emphasis of, on confession

  Fraser report and

  implementation of, as sham

  redirected toward guards

  lack of financial support for

  lack of support for

  leaks from officers, on brutality

  Malaya as blueprint for

  Mau Mau form of

  Mwea confessions and

  officers resign over dilution

  shifted to famine aid

  subordinated, in Pipeline

  transferred to Johnston after Askwith sacking

  release quotas

  Renison, Patrick

  repatriation

  agricultural reform and

  disease and

  land consolidation and

  reabsorption problem, and

  tensions within families and

  “Report on Health and Hygiene in Emergency Camps” (Stott)

  Resettlement Committee

  Resident Native Labourers Ordinances

  Reuters

  Review Committee of Mau Mau Prison Sentences

  Reynolds News

  Rhodesia

  rice cultivation project

  Rift Valley (Happy Valley)

  forced removals from

  riots, in camps

  riot squads

  Roberts, Granville

  Robertson, Brian

  Robertson, G. E. C.

  Ruben, Jack

  Ruck family, murder of

  Rudd, Judge

  Ruthagati Home Guard post

  Rutherford, J. A.

  Ruthigiti Home Guard Post

  Rutho, Simon

  Ryland, C. L.

  Sagana station (Pipeline hub)

  Saiyusi Camp

  Salisbury, Lord

  Sampson, Anthony

  school fees

  Scotsman

  Scott, Guthrie Michael

  screening and screening teams

  Anvil and

  Askwith’s concept begins with

  Athi River Camp and

  changes in, in camps

  defined

  files amassed by

  Four-Point Plan and

  Home Guard posts and

  lack controls

  methods and participants in

  police and

  public debates over

  release from Pipeline and

  revelations about

  rumors about

  Special Branch and

  surrenders join

  Tanganyika and

  torture and killing during

  women and

  scurvy

  “Security of Information” memos

  sexual violence

  aftermath of, on repatriation

  barbed-wire villages and

  camps and

  castrations

  sodomization of men and

  women detainees and

  Sharpeville killings

  Shepherd, Nancy

  Sherbrooke-Walker, Ronald

  Shuter, Victor

  Singh, Jaswant

  singing

  camps and

  forced labor from villages and

  sisal production

  Slade, Humphrey

  Sofsky, Wolfgang

  soil conservation

  Solomon Islands

  Solovetsky (Soviet gulag camp)

  Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr

  Somerhough, Anthony

  Sorrenson, M. P. K.

  South Africa

  Robben Island

  Southern Province

  Southern Rhodesia

  South London Press

  South Yatta Camp

  Souza, Fitz de

  Soviet work camps

  “speaking to the wire,”

  special areas

  Special Branch

  special detention camps

  squatters

  starvation. See also food deprivation

  barbed-wire villages and

  collective resistance and

  hard-core camps and

  letters documenting

  reabsorption and

  repatriation and

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sp; transit camps and

  Steel, H.

  Steel, David

  Stott, H.

  Subukia Screening Center

  Suez

  suicide

  Sullivan, G. M.

  Sunday Post

  “surrenders,”

  Swann, A. C. C.

 

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