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Mau Mau Attack at Naivasha Police Station, 1953

Independence fighters in Kenya, 1953
Independence fighters in Kenya, 1953

On 26 March 1953, Mau Mau guerrillas fighting British colonialism in Kenya attacked the Naivasha police station.

The independence fighters inflicted a humiliating defeat on the police and released 173 prisoners, many of them Mau Mau, from an adjoining detention camp.

While the uprising was eventually crushed by mass repression and murder by British forces, independence was achieved just a few years later.

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