Kenya
Kenya
- how law is used in counter insurgency
- short cuts often have negative repercussions
Lari - small village that traded with Nirobi
- the really nice land
- hold outs
- this created two groups of people
- sympathizers with the colonial administration because they got the really nice land
1953 - a fire and a massacre
- the home guard gets distracted by the fire
- then the village gets torched and massacred
- the early migrants were all massacred
- this meant that all the fence sitters had to choose a side
- the home guard carried out brutal and messy reprisals
British intervention
- the British gave tacit support to the home guard
- however, they attempt to foster legitimacy by putting them into a camp
- unnecessary interrogation methods
- the conditions in the camp were brutal
- 19 huge trials for 500 people
- the British decided it would be easier to execute them instead of risking releasing them and starting a reprisal cycle
- positive identification was the criteria used to convict - there was rampant witness collusion
- this brutality and farcical court system embarrassed the British
- most of the trials were id parades
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