The Lari massacre
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- Imperial reckoning - the untold story of Britains Gulag in whole source · open book
In total, ninety-seven Lari residents died, scores of others suffered serious disfigurements, and some two hundred huts were burned and several hundred head of cattle destroyed.
chapter: Britain’s Assault on Mau Mau
- Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire whole source · open book
From the fifteen homesteads attacked, spread over an area of some 30 square miles, the final death toll was seventy-four.
chapter: 4 Death at Lari: The Story of an African Massacre
- Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire whole source · open book
The grim truth was that, for every person who died in Lari’s first massacre, at least two more were killed in retaliation in the second.
chapter: 4 Death at Lari: The Story of an African Massacre