Swynnerton, R. J. M.
Swynnerton Plan
Takwa Camp
Tanganyika
taxes
chiefs and
exemptions, for loyalists
labor coerced by
special
tea production
Tebere Camp
Templer, Gerald
Ten Rules of Yatta
Thacker, Ransley
Thiba Camp, letters from detainees on
Thigio Kenya Regiment post
third degree
Thomas, T. George
Thomson’s Falls
murder near
screening center
transit camp
Times (London)
Todd, Christopher
Todorov, Tzvetan
token money
torture. See also atrocities and brutality; beatings; rape; sexual violence
barbed-wire villages and
covered up, after independence
European Convention on Human Rights and
Gavaghan’s final campaign and
of hard core
Henderson’s techniques and
information about, leaks out
intake and
knowledge of, at highest levels
legal justification for, as compelling force
letters from detainees describe
loyalists and
Mau Mau Investigation Center and
Mwea as nadir of
police and
rehabilitation in midst of
revelations about
screening and
sexual violence as
“surrenders” and
works camps and
transit camps
established
Four-Point Plan and
screenings and
Treasury Department
Tribal Policemen
Tribune
Truth about Kenya—an eye witness account by Eileen Fletcher (Movement for Colonial Freedom)
tuberculosis
Tumutumu Presbyterian mission school
Turnbull, Richard
Twelve Laws of Lodwar
Twining, Edward
typhoid
Uganda
Uganda Railway
uhuru slogan
unemployment
United Kenya Club
United Nations
Ad Hoc Committee on Forced Labour
UN Convention Against Torture
UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
United States
Vasey, Ernest
Victoria, queen of England
Vigilance Committee for Naivasha
vigilante groups
villagization. See barbed-wire villages
Waciuma, Muthoni
wages
Wagithundia (guard)
Wahoga, Githutha
Wahugo, Wamahiga
Wainaina, Stanley
Wairimu, Molly
Wairimu, Terry
Waithaka Camp
Wakibunja, Rahab
Wamai, Njeri
Wametumi, Shifra
Wamumu Aproved School and Youth Camp
Wanjau, Gakaara wa
Wanjiru, Jean
Wanjiru, Major wa (nickname)
War Council
Ward, Irene
Warren-Gash, Katherine (Mahuru, or the Eagle)
Waruhiu, David (Mtoto wa Waruhiu)
Waruhiu, Senior Chief
water supplies and deprivation
Waters, British officer
Waweru, Maingi (General Kamwamba)
Webber, Jack
Webster, Eric
“white” detainees
white-grey-black system
replaced by letter-based system
women and
White Highlands
Whitehouse, Leslie
“White Man’s Burden,”
white minority rule
White Nile
white settlers
alienation of land by
decolonizaton and
demand action
Emergency enforced by
Erskine and
fear of African sexuality and
interviews with
Kenyatta and
Lennox-Boyd and
lifestyle and influence of
number killed
racism of
screenings and
settlement by
squatters and
works camps and
WW II and
Whyatt, John
Wilkinson, R. A.
Williams, R. W.
Williams-Meyrick, Anthony
Wilson, Harold
Windley, Edward
Wise Men of the Star
women. See also Kamiti Camp
Anvil and
barbed-wire villages and food deprivation
barbed-wire villages and torture and sexual violence toward
camps and
collect food in special areas
land and freedom and communal labor for
rehabilitation and
repatriation of men and
targeted by British and massacred
villagization and
Working Party
works camps. See also detention camps; Pipeline; and specific camps
black markets in
built by forced labor gangs
commandants in
communication in
conditions and brutality within
consolidation of, with prisons
creation of, Swynnerton Plan and
created, for crush of detainees
divide-and-rule techniques in
detainee codes of conduct in
funding and support problems
“grey” detainees and, Askwith’s plan
guards in
health and sanitation problems in
home districts and, after confession
international agreement and
in Malaya
rehabilitation officers and
screening and white-grey-black system
sequencing of detainees in
slogans over archways of
two types of
women and
World War I
World War II
Kikuyu soldiers and
Wright, Mrs. A. M., murder of
Young, Arthur
YY (Kamiraru, “One Who Walked Naked,” nickname)
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