British Army planes were also used to drop bombs on Mau Mau camps and strafe the forest with machine guns. Given the thick cover provided by the foliage, this had only a limited military impact, but ...

Taking the secret oath and joining the underground liberation army known as Mau Mau. Fighting for independence, Mau Mau attacked police posts and assassinated Kenyans loyal to the Crown .

So e xtremists formed the Kenya Land and Freedom Army (KLFA), which became known as the Mau Mau. As tension increased in 1952, the State of Emergency was declared in 20 October and the 1st ...

Standard Group Plc HQ Office, The Standard Group Center,Mombasa Road. P.O Box 30080-00100,Nairobi, Kenya. Telephone number: 0203222111, 0719012111 ...

I was in Kenya between 1954 and 1955 serving in the army. ... This is because the Mau Mau would try to create handmade guns out of rubber and leftover pieces including copper and nails.

In the eyes of many historians, the campaign against Mau Mau fighters was the bloodiest British suppression of any of their colonial uprisings anywhere in the world ...