2013 CE
The UK agrees compensation for 5,228 Kenyan claimants
British Empire · Memory, reparation & restitution
After litigation and disclosure of “migrated” colonial archives, the British government agreed £19.9 million for 5,228 people and a memorial in Nairobi. Foreign Secretary William Hague acknowledged torture and ill-treatment and expressed sincere regret, but the settlement was not a general admission of liability for colonialism as a whole
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