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Case seeks to revisit Kenyatta's repression of ex-Mau Mau fighters

Mzee Jomo Kenyatta and the Mau Mau fighters. [File, Standard]

A class court battle seeking to revisit the atrocities caused by Kenya’s first president, Jomo Kenyatta’s government, against Mau Mau fighters has landed in court.

In a case filed before High Court Judge Chacha Mwita, 30 men who state they were a part of the fighters who fought for Kenya’s independence argue that Kenyatta labelled them as terrorists, then unleashed the police against them.

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