Mau Mau in the High Court and the ‘Lost’ British Empire Archives: Colonial Conspiracy or Bureaucratic Bungle?
Mau Mau in the High Court and the ‘Lost’ British Empire Archives: Colonial Conspiracy or Bureaucratic Bungle?
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高等法院的毛毛和“失落的”大英帝国档案：殖民阴谋还是官僚失误？
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2011
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David M. Anderson
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2011年4月，伦敦高等法院举行了一场具有里程碑意义的听证会，发现英国政府有一起案件需要答复，该案涉及英国官员在茂茂反叛乱期间在肯尼亚实施的虐待和酷刑行为。在听证会之前，据透露，英国政府在肯尼亚独立时从肯尼亚移走了大约1500份“敏感”政府文件，其中许多文件与我们在20世纪50年代紧急情况期间被指控的虐待行为有关。这一发现随后直接导致了另一批8800份历史文件的披露，这些文件与其他36个前英国殖民地的非殖民化有关。本文解释了高等法院在肯尼亚案件中提出的酷刑和虐待指控的性质，然后描述了最近披露的文件中的新证据。结束语部分接着讨论了肯尼亚案件以及大英帝国档案的更大发现所带来的影响。
In April 2011, a landmark hearing before the High Court in London found that the British government had a case to answer concerning abuse and torture allegedly carried out by British officials in Kenya during the Mau Mau counter-insurgency. Prior to the hearing, it was revealed that the British government had removed some 1,500 ‘sensitive’ government files from Kenya at independence, many of these relating to alleged abuses carried our during the Emergency of the 1950s. This discovery then led directly to the revelation of a further tranche of 8,800 historical files relating to the decolonisation of 36 other former British colonies. This article explains the nature of the claims of torture and abuse made in the Kenya case in the High Court, and then describes the new evidence in the recently disclosed documents. The concluding section then discusses the Kenya case and the implications of the larger discovery of the ‘lost’ British Empire archive.