![]() ![]() Queen Elizabeth returned to Kenya in 19, during the rule of Western-backed dictator President Daniel Arap Moi, Ruto’s mentor, as left-wing opponents of the regime were routinely killed and tortured.Īfter paying his respect to Kenya’s former colonial overlord, Ruto travelled to the United States for the 77th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). They repeatedly lied to Parliament and the media and, when decolonization was imminent, ordered the widespread removal and burning of incriminating evidence.” The British governor of Kenya, Sir Evelyn Baring, regularly intervened to prevent its perpetrators from being brought to justice.Įlkins recently wrote in Time magazine: “Beginning with her first prime minister Winston Churchill, the queen’s ministers not only knew of systematic British-directed violence in the empire, they also participated in its crafting, diffusion, and cover-up, which was as routinized as the violence itself. The repression was endorsed at the highest levels. Interrogation under torture was widespread. Inmates were used as slave labour and subjected to sexual assault. Thousands were beaten to death or died from malnutrition, typhoid, tuberculosis or dysentery. Her study showed how the UK detained half a million people in camps and fortified villagers. London’s reaction was brutal, claiming an estimated 150,000 Kenyan lives according to historian Caroline Elkins’s work Britain's Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya. She served as Kenya’s head of state as a mass anti-colonial armed revolt broke out from 1952 to 1960, led by the Kenya Land and Freedom Army, commonly known as the Mau Mau rebellion. Queen Elizabeth became the monarch in 1952 while visiting Kenya, after her father, King George VI, died. Ruto was silent on British imperialism’s brutal role in Kenya. ![]() Ruto groveled before the late figurehead of British imperialism, stating: “We will miss the cordial ties she enjoyed with Kenya and may her memories continue to inspire us, we join the Commonwealth in mourning and offer our condolences to the Royal Family and the United Kingdom during these difficult moments.” Ruto’s first stop after winning the August presidential election was the UK, to attend the funeral service for Queen Elizabeth in London. President of Kenya William Samoei Ruto addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, Sept. ![]()
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