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How British plotted to 'finish' Talai clan

Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen. [File]

The world is mourning departed Queen Elizabeth II, but the Talai clan who originally hailed from Nandi can only collectively sigh in grief and wonder why she has refused to heed their desperate cries for 70 years.

Theirs is a story of Kenya's longest-suffering community. Their tribulations resonate with the history of Jews; targeted for extermination by Adolf Hitler's regime during the Second World War.

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