Kenya: Britain urged to yield to Mau Mau veterans' compensation bid

Kenya’s independence heroes and heroines marched on the tarpaulin of a stadium on Saturday, waving the national flag during celebrations to mark Heroes Day, buoyed by a landmark legal victory against Britain for compensation for pre-independence atrocities. The elderly Kenyans pressed for compensation against the British government for illegal detention and torture during the 1952 crackdown against the Mau Mau rebellion, whose leader, Field Marshal Dedan Kimathi, is still buried at the Kamiti Maximum Prison.