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Crimes against humanity didn't begin yesterday

By Ted Malanda

My old friend John Lilako, a witty, literary man with a knack for noticing the absurd, used to say when we were boys that if you want to find a pirate, scratch a (British) gentleman. The thought came to me last week when Mau Mau veterans arrived in London to seek compensation for, among others things, castration by British authorities.

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