Mau Mau

Krigsnørden fortæller om Mau Mau oprøret:

Turns out the Brits basically put the whole Kikuyu population in concentration camps—more than 1.5 million civilians inside the wire, and if they died of every African disease that was going, all the better. Actually the Brits used the same technique against the Boer women and children in the Boer War—purposely killed off 25% of the total civilian population to demoralize the guerrillas they couldn’t beat in a fair fight—so it shouldn’t surprise anyone .

Nedkæmpelsen af oprøret bliver ofte fremhævet som bevis på, at oprørsbekæmpelse kan virke, men det her aspekt bliver sjældent nævnt.