Here is a comment from Dave Steward, right hand man to former South African state president F.W. de Klerk:
This is interesting - but the author clearly has an anti-Churchill agenda based on inaccurate stats and quotations taken out of context. Churchill was a product of his times and undoubtedly shared the racial attitudes - and sense of racial superiority - of virtually all fellow Europeans and North Americans at that time. By 1954 he was hardly functioning effectively and probably did not play a direct role in most of the British actions in Kenya.
The writer says nothing of the brutality of Mau-Mau and the fact that the vast majority of its 50 000 victims were fellow black Kenyans. The number of people who were imprisoned in camps was closer to 70 000 - 80 000 - but what was perhaps even more shocking was that 1 090 Mau-Mau were hanged.
The point is valid: UK criticism of South Africa during the following decades was bitterly hypocritical - but, alas, that is the way of the world!
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