On 3 March 1959, the Hola massacre took place in Kenya when the commander of a British concentration camp for Kenyan civilians had its 88 detainees severely beaten with clubs. 11 died and the 77 others sustained serious permanent injuries. The British government had thrown around 400,000 civilians into concentration camps, and over 1 million others into army-supervised village camps in an effort to stamp out the Mau Mau anti-colonial uprising. This is a short history of the rebellion: https://libcom.org/history/mau-mau-uprising-1952-1956
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