Murder of the Ruck family
Citations (2)
- Imperial reckoning - the untold story of Britains Gulag in whole source · open book
It was on the first night of this adjournment—January 24, 1953—that the most sensational European murder at the hands of Mau Mau took place.
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
The slaughter of the Ruck family, at their farm in Kinangop on 24 January 1953, was to be the definitive moment of the war for the white highlanders.
chapter: 3 ‘Parasites in Paradise’: Race, Violence and Mau Mau