“Thousands of documents detailing some of the most shameful acts and crimes committed during the final years of the British empire were systematically destroyed to prevent them falling into the hands of post-independence governments, an official review has concluded…The archive came to light last year when a group of Kenyans detained and allegedly tortured during the Mau Mau rebellion won the right to sue the British government. The Foreign Office promised to release the 8,800 files from 37 former colonies held at the highly-secure government communications centre.”
- but the historian assigned to release the files couldn’t because the documents, which by law should have been in public archives by the 1980s, were mostly illegally hidden and in some cases illegally destroyed. Read the full article about it here
- but the historian assigned to release the files couldn’t because the documents, which by law should have been in public archives by the 1980s, were mostly illegally hidden and in some cases illegally destroyed. Read the full article about it here
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