Histories of the Hanged

Download or read book Histories of the Hanged written by David Anderson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2005 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anderson's work reveals how, in the course of suppressing the Mau Mau revolt, Kenya's British rulers were responsible for thousands of unjustifiable killings, for gross abuses of both their own law and the laws of war, and for what are possibly the most brutal episodes of legal and physical oppression in twentieth-century imperial history. In uncovering thousands of new files and court transcripts, Anderson reveals that the British, with the knowledge of both Winston Churchill and Harold Macmillan, committed untold atrocities against Kenyan subjects, putting over 70,000 people in prison camps and sending hundreds to the gallows without proper trial."--BOOK JACKET.