The Killing of Chief Nderi

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• Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire whole source · open book

  On 22 October, as the last of the suspects were being rounded up in Operation Jock Scott, another prominent colonial chief was killed. Nderi, a senior and long-standing chief, was hacked to pieces by an angry crowd as he tried to break up an oathing ceremony close to his own home.

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