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The man who killed Koitalel

Richard Henry Meinertzhagen, the man who silenced the Nandi rebellion by killing the community’s paramount leader Koitalel arap Samoei in 1905, has been described as a man who killed for pleasure.

Meinertzhagen is described by online biographers as brilliant and cruel, adventurous and treacherous, with few scruples.

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