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Is there any footage of the whites during the Mau Mau uprising?

posted 15 years ago by korn_mythe
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Thanks for any help

[–] spittle8 15 years ago

Yes. Want to know anything else/specific?

"The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised."

[–] korn_mythe 15 years ago

..well just really what kind of footage is shown from that time?

Lots of legal *beep* whites leaving their homes, etc. Nothing graphic IRT the colonists, though. They have to shoot some of their livestock that was tortured by the Africans and mutilated, and the whites are obviously disgusted by that. Later you see white mercenaries fighting and killing the blacks. We HEAR a lot about Mau Mau atrocities against whites, but (obviously) the camera crew wasn't around for that bit...

"The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised."