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LONDON, June 23 (UPI) -- Three men and two women who were imprisoned in Kenya during the Mau Mau rebellion filed a claim for compensation Tuesday against the British government.
The five plan to present a letter Wednesday at 10 Downing St., Prime Minister Gordon Brown's official office and home, asking for a government inquiry into British actions in the last years of colonial rule in Kenya from 1952 to 1960, The Guardian reported.
"This will be the first time the British government has had to account for its terrible, terrible deeds. This case is about justice for those individuals who had a terrible, terrible time," said Martin Day, a British lawyer representing the group. "A number of them suffered from castration. Women suffered from horrendous sexual abuse. Many, many Maus Maus were beaten, tortured and killed. This case is about bringing all those issues before the British court and a British judge to say, 'What we did was wrong.'"
Day accused the Kenyan and British governments of a "quiet conspiracy" classifying Mau Mau as a terrorist group from independence in 1960 until 2003.
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