The Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya against British Colonial Rules How did the British suppress it?

 The Mau Mau rebellion, also known as the Mau Mau uprising, was a war in the British Kenya Colony between the Kenya Land and Freedom Army, also known as the Mau Mau, and the British authorities

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.  The rebellion began in 1952 as a reaction to inequalities and injustices in British-controlled Kenya

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.  The British authorities responded with a fierce crackdown on the rebels, resulting in many deaths

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.  The British used various techniques to suppress the rebellion, including mass detention, military operations, and propaganda campaigns

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.  The British also destroyed the Mau Mau movement by arranging operations that isolated insurgent fighters from their support

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The British declared a state of emergency in October 1952 and began moving army reinforcements into Kenya

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.  By the end of 1956, more than 11,000 rebels had been killed in the fighting, along with about 100 Europeans and 2,000 African loyalists

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.  The British also put more than 20,000 Kikuyu into detention camps, where intensive efforts were made to convert them

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.  The rebellion was marked by war crimes and massacres

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 The British suppressed the Mau Mau Uprising in the Kenyan colony at a cost of £55 million and caused at least 11,000 deaths among the Mau Mau and other forces, with some estimates considerably higher

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.  This included 1,090 executions by hanging

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.  The rebellion had both positive and negative effects, including the loss of lives on both sides of the Europeans and Africans, serious economic decline in Kenya, and acceleration of the pace of nationalism in Kenya and throughout East Africa

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Citations:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mau_Mau_rebellion

[2] https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/mau-mau-uprising

[3] https://historyreferencenotes.blogspot.com/2021/01/effects-of-mau-mau-rebellion.html?m=1

[4] https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/what-was-the-mau-mau-uprising

[5] https://brill.com/view/journals/ajls/14/1/article-p3_2.xml?language=en

[6] https://www.bu.edu/africa/outreach/teachingresources/history/colonialism/the-mau-mau-rebellion/

[7] https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD1022195.pdf

[8] https://www.bu.edu/africa/files/2016/04/5.-Mau-Mau-Rebellion-Reading-HW.pdf

[9] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/aug/18/uncovering-truth-british-empire-caroline-elkins-mau-mau

[10] https://www.britannica.com/topic/Mau-Mau

[11] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-12997138

[12] https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/mau-mau-1952-1960/