Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1953-04-03

As police and troops, with air
planes, tanks and dogs hunt
gangs In the hills and forests the
Mau Mau are changing their
methods OF attack by staging
hold.ups and beat-upa In tho
towns. Thousands are fiocking 10
the reserve where there Ia not
sufficient land and water for
their suEtenanee, The withdrawal
IT such large numbers Of ayr.
cultural and other workers In
having an adverse effect upon
agricultural and other fields Of
the economy Of the country,
Both tho News Chronicle and
Manchester Guardian publish pes
nimiatio reports from Ksnya, but
tho other newspapers, including
The Times, seem % condone by
their silence the current methods
adopted by the authorities In Ken
va,
The evil part Of those methods
In that Africans are hunted and
shot simply because some whits
or black men have declared them
10 be terroriHtA,
No Judge or court has tried
them. no decree by the govern
ment has placed them outside the
law outIawed them. and dead
men tell no taiea". No those who
are killed by the police, troopa.
AuHiliAries or anybody else who
claims 90 have killed Mau Mau
man or woman have carried tho
truth with them 10 another world
and another Judge.
There were over 100000 h-
kuyus In the tribe. Those who are
marking kibuyu down as free M
a bird aA the Beers used To say
that IL. free 20 be hunted like
dangerous animals, Only q few
Of tho police speak kikuyu fluent
Iy. There are many white settlers
who believe, like Colonel orogaA.
who has been In kenya for %
years but Rtill does not under"
stand the natives. that there
should be- promIacuoua hangingI
of Kikuyu In patches Of 10 just
% "iarn 'em"
There are thousands of ksnyan
white settlers who are bitter
colorphobes an bad M the late
IHlbo Of UHA, And there are
thousands Of Kikuyu and other
,ribemmen who will dsn1unee their
relations even 90 stand In well
with the white men, Ia make a
little extra money and easy mon.
ey, Or 10 settle n private grudge.
Only after one has spoken Afrt"
can languages very well and en-
psT4snced Africans reactions 10
similar situations can q white
man Judge whether a Strang"
African (strRnEs 20 the whits
manI should be screened, In no
case should a strange African b"
condemned 10 be hunted and @hot
without the production OF evi-
dencs
Britain ia sanetinninE the very
methods she condemns In othsr
countries In Russia and In NaEi
Germany formerly by permit
ting the ruthless and promi"euouS
Strengthening of "outiawed" ATT
cans without any proper evidence
~ their guilt
britain In killing Africans, not
only by police and troop shoot
lpgn and native Ruxiliarie% stab
tdnRa. but by hsrding uhsm in'"
inadequate reserve" where thou'
sands ~ children ars sure To dse'
KIkuyus are now faced with ths
awful danger Of being denounced
and killed without q chance OF
asnunR their guilt. Many faced
with that danger viii take UP
arms In their own defense, rea-
soning tina, " they are going 70
he hunted and killed, Il iS better
IN have arms. for without any
they stand no chance at all
n. v. Cooke. q member OF tn@
Ksnya Legislative Assembly re-
Gently condemned the British
methods. Africans are beginning
20 doubt British justice" he said
They already have reasons Tor
do,Ib,inR British Justice not oniy
in Kenya, but in other parts OF
Africa, including West, m wen
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