This might of of interest to Ex Kenya Goans and Goans still living in Kenya.
Judge to give Mau Mau case ruling PA *Thursday, 21 July 2011* A judge gives his decision today in a High Court action brought by four elderly Kenyans over alleged British colonial atrocities committed during the Mau Mau Uprising. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), which says it cannot be held legally liable, has asked Mr Justice McCombe to rule on the preliminary issue of whether to throw out the claims and grant summary judgment in its favour. Its counsel, Robert Jay QC, has said that the case was "built on inference" and ended in a "cul-de-sac". If the strike out application is rejected, a future hearing will consider the Government's additional argument that the claims have been brought outside the legal time limit. The test case claimants, Ndiku Mutwiwa Mutua, Paulo Muoka Nzili, Wambugu Wa Nyingi and Jane Muthoni Mara, who are in their 70s and 80s, flew 4,000 miles from their rural homes for the trial this spring which concentrated on events in detention camps between 1952 and 1961. They are unlikely to be in court for the judgment but will be attending a press conference in Nairobi. The judge heard that Mr Mutua and Mr Nzili had been castrated, Mr Nyingi was beaten unconscious in an incident in which 11 men were clubbed to death, and Mrs Mara had been subjected to appalling sexual abuse. The FCO has argued that legal responsibility was transferred to the Kenyan Republic upon independence in 1963. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/judge-to-give-mau-mau-case-ruling-2317987.html -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.
