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	Mau Mau Uprising
		The so-called Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya from 1952 to 1960 -- in the immediate wake of the global war against fascism -- was one of the most vicious colonial wars Britain ever fought.
		The Mau Mau Uprising was an insurgency by Kenyan rebels against the British colonial administration that lasted from 1952 to 1960.
		During the course of the Mau Mau disturbances various leaflets were disseminated; the most important being yellow "safe conduct passes" in January of 1955 incorporating the very controversial pardon for past crimes.
	www.lycos.com /info/mau-mau-uprising.html (660 words)

	Mau-Mau Uprising PSYOPS
		Like most wars, Mau Mau was as much about propaganda as it was about reality…Equally powerful as the photographs distributed by the Colonial Office was the language used to describe the Mau Mau…the "white" and "enlightened" forces of British colonialism were in stark contradistinction to the "dark," "evil," "foul," "secretive," and "degraded" Mau Mau.
		Mau Mau followers were forbidden to invite non-members to drink beer, or to attend their dances; they were not to help them in building huts or in any other tasks where it was normal for a man to call on his neighbors to give communal aid.
		Worse for the Mau Mau leaders, as the members left the organization and did not suffer a painful and agonizing death, it became clear that the oath had no magical power and was just a myth.
	www.psywar.org /maumau.php (6735 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Bloody uprising of the Mau Maus
		One example was the Mau Mau raid on the "loyalist" village of Lari, where the majority of the men were away fighting with the British Home Guard.
		Prof Anderson notes that one of the things marking the battle against the Mau Mau was the number of hangings, with capital offences extended by the end of the emergency to include "consorting" with Mau Mau.
		Even though the Mau Mau were thoroughly defeated by 1960, the exact reforms that nationalists had been pressing for before the uprising had started, and by 1963 Kenya was independent.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/6042524.stm (960 words)

	Mau Mau
		Mau Mau Uprising or Rebellion was a guerilla war between African Mau Mau rebels and British and Kenyan forces in Kenya.
		Mau Mau (kikuyu for “burning spear”) was a semi-clandestine insurgent organization in Kenya.
		Mau Mau hid in bamboo forests of the Aberdare and Mount Kenya[?].
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ma/Mau_Mau_Uprising.html (1613 words)

	Mau movement - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The dispute led to the formation of a resistance movement on the island of Savai'i by Mamoe, one of the chiefs deposed by the German Governor of Samoa, Wilhelm Solf.
		The Mau remained true to this sentiment, and despite the exile of Nelson, continued to use civil disobedience to oppose the New Zealand administration.
		The Mau movement had not gone unnoticed by the population of New Zealand, and the treatment of Samoans at the hands of the administration had become a contentious issue in some New Zealand electorates during the 1929 election.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Mau (1320 words)

	Mau Mau Uprising
		The Mau Mau Uprising was an insurgency by Kenyan rebels against the British colonial administration from 1952 to 1960.
		Senior British officers thought that the Mau Mau Uprising was a sideshow compared to the Malayan Emergency.
		The last Mau Mau leader, Dedan Kimathi, was captured by Kikuyu pseudo-gang police on October 21, 1956 in Nyeri with 13 remaining guerillas, and was subsequently hanged in early 1957.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/m/ma/mau_mau_uprising.html (4045 words)

	Mexica Uprising - In Support of World Wide Indigenous Revolution
		This uprising by African dissidents was known as the Mau Mau which is pig latin for the word “uma uma” and means “out out.” This movement eventually brought colonialism to an end in Kenya, though its legacy survived after Kenya gained its independence in 1963.
		The two massacres completed the demonisation of the Mau Mau in the minds of the settlers, and the white community was seized with a desire for revenge at any cost.
		The Mau Mau, with what the whites saw as their grisly oath-taking ceremonies, were seen as the incarnation of the settlers' fear of unbridled native savagery.
	www.mexicauprising.net /maumauuprising.html (4518 words)

	Mau Mau Uprising (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mau Mau (Kikuyu for "burning spear") was a semi-clandestine insurgent organizationin Kenya.
		Mau Mau exploited Kikuyu ritual traditions and bound their members (many of them unwillingly) to their cause with blood oath rituals.
		Mau Mau were also killed in inter-band fights and internal purges and due to harsh conditions.In the end Mau Mau killed only 32 white settlers and at least 2,484 but possibly up to 11,000 Africans.
	www.therfcc.org /mau-mau-uprising-31030.html (1578 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Mau
		Mau Mau A militant nationalist movement in Kenya.
		(aftermath of the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya)
		Mau Mau and the bodysnatchers; British colonial history.(Histories of Kenya's Mau Mau uprising)
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Mau (660 words)

	Kikuyu Mau Mau Uprising and Independence - Traditional Music & Cultures of Kenya
		Despite the fact that Kenyatta had repeatedly denounced Mau Mau publicly and advocated peaceful change (see his speech "The Kenya Africa Union is not the Mau Mau" from 1952), the British remained convinced that he was the man behind Mau Mau.
		Ritual oathing was a crucial component of Mau Mau participation, as they called on the old God - Ngai - to witness the oath that people would swear to be united in their fight against the colonial enemy, and would take back the land that the white man had stolen.
		Although Mau Mau were defeated militarily, the cost to the British for quelling the uprising was staggering, not just in terms of money and numbers of troops which had to be permanently stationed in Kenya, but in terms of public opinion in Europe.
	www.bluegecko.org /kenya/tribes/kikuyu/maumau.htm (3274 words)

	Mau Mau (game) at AllExperts
		Mau Mau is a card game for 2 - 5 players that is popular in Germany, Brazil and some other areas.
		Mau Mau is very similar to the game UNO, both belonging to the larger Crazy Eights or Shedding family of card games.
		Generally, numerical effects can be stacked and passed along, as with the above mentioned variation regarding sevens in Mau Mau, though this rule also applies to eights, with the number of turns missed by the next player increasing by one for each eight played in succession.
	en.allexperts.com /e/m/ma/mau_mau_(game).htm (1197 words)

	Review20thCentury_1945_Chinyanja
		The Mau Mau uprising against British rule in Kenya began after a long build-up of resentment caused primarily by colonial occupation of the best agricultural land.
		The Mau Mau, a secret society of oath-takers, unleashed a campaign of violence against white colonials and those Africans who supported them.
		Before the rebellion was crushed three years later, 11 thousand Mau Mau had been killed and 80 thousand Kikuyus had been confined to detention camps.
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	The Ultimate Mau Mau Uprising - American History Information Guide and Reference
		Mau Mau may be an acronym of sorts: Mzungu Aende Ulaya — Mwafrika Apate Uhuru.
		This raid was widely reported in the British media, contributing greatly to the stereotype of the Mau Mau as bloodthirsty savages.
		The last Mau Mau leader, Dedan Kimathi, was captured by Kikuyu pseudo-gang police on October 21, 1956 in Nyeri with 13 remaining guerrillas, and was subsequently hanged in early 1957.
	www.historymania.com /american_history/Mau_Mau_Uprising (4141 words)

	Scholars unearth Britain’s dirty war against Mau Mau
		The Mau Mau, drawn largely from Kenya’s biggest tribe, the Kikuyu, launched their rebellion against colonial rule in 1952, especially in the "white" highlands favoured by settlers, waging war from the Aberdare and Mount Kenya forests.
		Mau Mau freedom fighters wearing animal skins and armed with long knives in a file picture taken in Kiambu.
		A settler-promoted stereotype of Mau Mau as bloodthirsty savages helps explain the public apathy in 1950s Britain about British atrocities in the period, and the lack of anything approaching a national soul-searching in the decades since.
	www.eastandard.net /archives/cm/print/news.php?articleid=14145 (874 words)

	Mau Mau
		Each member of the Mau Mau would chant incantations, drink the blood of the animal and usually pass a blood filled gourd around their head and prick the eye of a sheep, both seven times.
		During the frenzy of the fires, a Mau Mau terrorist summarily chopped the head from a small child with his panga or machete.
		While the numbers of settlers killed may be small in comparison to the Mau Mau dead, the fact that there was a growing tide of atrocities instilled great concern in the government of Kenya.
	homepage.mac.com /zagaya/short_stories/html/maumau.html (3244 words)

	Mau Mau - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		Mau Mau, secret insurgent organization in Kenya, comprising mainly Kikuyu tribespeople.
		The settlers retaliated and non-participant Kikuyu were killed by the Mau Mau.
		By 1956, however, British troops hunted down the Mau Mau in the mountain forests.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-MauMau.html (429 words)

	Britains blood-soaked secret massacre (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The question of army rapes, the suppression of the Mau Mau uprising and historical chattel slavery are all linked, according to Esther Stanford, a reparations campaigner.
		In fact several decades before the Mau Mau conflict, the privileged colonial rulers already had blood on their hands when they forcibly removed the Maasai people from their ancestral lands in the Laikipia plateau.
		The Mau Mau uprising is an insurgency by Kenyan rebels against the British colonial administration from 1952 to 1963.
	www.blink.org.uk /print.asp?key=13610 (539 words)

	CNN.com - Kenya registers Mau Mau freedom fighters group - Nov. 11, 2003
		Kenya Tuesday formally registered the Mau Mau movement in a move seen by lawyers as a plus for the surviving fighters' efforts to sue Britain for compensation for torture under colonial rule.
		A colonial-era legislation outlawed the Mau Mau and branded them "terrorists," accusing them of involvement in secret oaths to kill white settlers and their African supporters.
		Some 1,048 Mau Mau convicts were hanged by the British, who also confiscated their property, cattle, farmland and food.
	cnn.com /2003/WORLD/africa/11/11/kenya.maumau.reut (373 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Arts :: With Study of Mau Mau, Prof Creates Masterpiece
		Elkins’ work directly combats this syndrome and serves as an accessible narrative of Mau Mau, from beginning to end; in pursuit of this goal, she has created one of those rare history books which is immensely readable, even to someone who knows little about British colonial history.
		And while Mau Mau’s body count was, as Elkins skillfully demonstrates, not as high as the death toll inflicted by the settlers, the insurgents matched the settlers in the realm of brutality.
		The British repression of Mau Mau was an act of injustice—but not a genocide.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=505971 (980 words)

	Books \| Memories of Mau Mau
		Mwangi, the gentle gardener and Njoroge's grandfather, turns out to be the Mau Mau oath-giver and is killed by the British; Mahesh Uncle, Vikram's charming uncle, turns out to be a covert Mau Mau supporter and Marxist revolutionary and is later deported back to India by the new African leaders.
		The Mau Mau freedom fighters who gave up everything to fight the colonialists are now hounded on the streets and arrested for the flimsiest reasons.
		The same colonial policemen and their African collaborators who tortured the Mau Mau and other fls during the emergency are still in office as security advisers for the new ruling class.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,5017776-110738,00.html (862 words)

	Mau Mau Uprising
		The Mau Mau Uprising was an insurgency by Kenyan rebels against the British colonial administration that lasted from 1952 to 1960.
		The uprising did not succeed militarily, but did create a rift between the white settler community in Kenya and the Home Office in London that set the stage for Kenyan independence in 1963.
		Mau Mau is a term of much debated origin.
	www.kiwipedia.com /mau-mau.html (271 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
		The name Mau Mau for the rebel movement wasn't coined by the Kikuyu; instead they called it Muingi ("The Movement"), Muigwithania ("The Understanding"), Muma wa Uiguano ("The Oath of Unity") or simply "The KCA", after the Kikuyu Central Association that created the impetus for the insurgency.
		The Uprising occurred as a result of long simmering political, economic and racial tensions coupled with the apparent lack of peaceful political solutions.
		The Mau Maus were also a fictitious political hip-hop group in the 2000 Spike Lee film Bamboozled.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Mau_Mau_Uprising (4448 words)

	Joe Bob Briggs Review
		Dan and Dave were producers who had much more in common with the carnival than with the early days of Hollywood, and their titles were more like circus or vaudeville acts than motion pictures.
		"Mau Mau Sex Sex" is basically an hour and a half of Dan and Dave sitting around talking about the good ole days of road shows and four-walling and legendary exploitation stunts.
		Dan Sonney acquired the footage but didn't know how to sell it, so he hired some fl actors from Los Angeles to pose as naked warriors, slitting the throats of bare-breasted women, and this three minutes of faked footage was inserted into the movie and used as the trailer.
	www.maumausexsex.com /review_joe_bob.html (771 words)

	Al Jazeera English - Archive - Mau Mau Veterans Demand Uk Apology (Site not responding. Last check: )
		They are seeking unspecified reparations for Mau Mau veterans who claim they were tortured by colonial authorities in the 1950s.
		The Mau Mau, which started as a grassroots movement among the Kikuyu tribe to recover arable farmlands appropriated by British colonial settlers, evolved into a fully-fledged rebellion in 1952 that demanded Kenyan independence.
		Surviving Mau Mau fighters, now in their 70s and 80s, claim they and their colleagues were made to suffer cruelty such as summary executions, torture, rape, beatings, forced labour and evictions.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/AC1F96FA-3B97-4D33-9F90-8218DA8113C2.htm (386 words)

	Mau Mau - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Mau Mau, anti-colonial, militant nationalist rebellion that took place predominantly among the Kikuyu ethnic group in British-ruled Kenya, which...
		Egyptian Mau, only naturally occurring breed of spotted domestic cat.
		In 1952 a Kikuyu secret society, the Mau Mau, began an uprising against colonial rule.
	au.encarta.msn.com /Mau_Mau.html (151 words)

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