Kenyans WERE tortured under our rule, says UK: Lawyer's admission as three Mau Mau survivors tell of horror

• Thought to be first public declaration by Government that brutality occurred
• Admission comes as three elderly Kenyans seeks damages in the High Court
• Could open floodgates for thousands of survivors to sue Britain for millions

By Sam Greenhill

PUBLISHED: 23:43 GMT, 17 July 2012 | UPDATED: 23:43 GMT, 17 July 2012

Ministers issued a dramatic confession yesterday that prisoners were tortured and sexually abused under British colonial rule in Kenya.

It is believed to be the first time the Government has made such a public declaration that atrocities were carried out ‘at the hands of the colonial administration’.

The admission came via a Whitehall lawyer addressing three elderly Kenyans who had gone to the High Court in London to demand damages and an apology.

Now in their 80s, one of them told the court how he had been brutally castrated in a British detention camp during the Mau Mau rebellion – Britain’s bloodiest colonial war.

If the trio win their case, it would open the door to up to 20,000 Kenyan survivors of the Mau Mau purge to sue Britain for millions of pounds, using no-win, no-fee lawyers.

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