Fighting the Mau Mau

Name: Fighting the Mau Mau
Brand: Cambridge University Press
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The British Army and Counter-Insurgency in the Kenya Emergency

Autor: Huw Bennett

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British Army counterinsurgency campaigns were supposedly waged within the bounds of international la...

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Autor

Huw Bennett

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2012

Pagini

317

EAN

9781107029705

ISBN

1107029708

Enbook ID

02050844

Editura

Cambridge University Press

Greutate

630

Dimensiuni

155 x 234 x 18

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British Army counterinsurgency campaigns were supposedly waged within the bounds of international law, overcoming insurgents with the minimum force necessary. This revealing study questions what this meant for the civilian population during the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya in the 1950s, one of Britain's most violent decolonisation wars. For the first time Huw Bennett examines the conduct of soldiers in detail, uncovering the uneasy relationship between notions of minimum force and the colonial tradition of exemplary force where harsh repression was frequently employed as a valid means of quickly crushing rebellion. Although a range of restrained policies such as special forces methods, restrictive rules of engagement and surrender schemes prevented the campaign from degenerating into genocide, the army simultaneously coerced the population to drop their support for the rebels, imposing collective fines, mass detentions and frequent interrogations, often tolerating rape, indiscriminate killing and torture to terrorise the population into submission.

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