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The same ministers went on to laud the process, emphasizing that the new Kikuyu communities were being built along "the same lines as the villages in the North of England". Kiamariga, like the other Emergency villages, hardly evoked the pastoral images of the English countryside... As in other villages , the ndaki at Kiamariga was about four feet deep, halfway filled with water, and covered with a thick matting...
— Jul 10, 2013 10:56AM
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"If these estimates are correct, nearly 600 children were at Kamiti [camp]... infants and young children [were] lined up for inoculations... within twenty-four hours some of these children were dead... 'they would be tied in bundles of six babies', Helen recalled, 'and each of us selected was ordered to take the bundle and bury it with the rest of the bodies in the big graves."
— Jul 06, 2013 11:34PM
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At Aguthi Camp detainees were greeted with large letters that read, “He Who Helps Himself Will Also Be Helped.” Fort Hall's main camp — which the detainees called Kwa Futi — bore the sign "Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here." For a time at Ngenya Camp the gate was decorated with the command "Labor and Freedom"... [recollecting the slogans] in the Soviet Gulag that read "Through Labor — Freedom!"...
— Jun 27, 2013 11:31PM
