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By FRED ZUSY
Of The Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya CAT) The
young man sat in the prisoner's
Ibox, his black skin shining with
sweat, nis legs shackled in irons.
Behind him in the high-paneled
courtroom stood two African po
licemen armed with rifles, red
Iezz.es cocked on their heads.
The voices of witnesses droned
in the heat like persistent flies,
echoed by the voice of the trans
lator who added eacli time, "Yes,
m'lord," or "No, m'lord" to the
wigged and black-robed English
judge on the bench.
Barefoot native assessors, who
act as advisors to the court on
questions of 'fact, listened grave
ly. The man was Miano, son of
Ngemwe. He had been caught
up in the reign of terror known
as Mau Mau which may someday
be a mere footnote in the annals
of the British Empire.
But. today, in the dense forests
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and dry uplands of Kenya, it is a
life or death struggle between the
whites who came to lame the
land and the blacks who would
arive tnem out. v
A patrol of the Kine's A friVnn
Rifles black troops with white
officers captured Miano on a
banana plantation last Feb. 6 as
they chased a gang of suspected
Mau Mau.
From the witness stand a enr.
poral and a sergeant testified that
Miano raised a home-made rifle
to fire at the pursuing troops but
dropped it when he saw the cor
poral was armed with a stn on
xt , . ... o"'"
u, protested Miano, when he
took the stand. The gun was not
"is. ine troops lorced-it on him,
Speaking quickly in Swahili, Mi
ano said lie was an unwilling
captive of the Mau Mau.
I have betrayed Mau Matt
would be killed bv them." he
told the grave judge. "I will
point out the medicine man who
advises Mau Mau where and
wnen to attack."
The native assessors looked at
Miano thoughtfully. The iurten
was silent.
wow Miano cried he'd hpon
hung from a tree with his wrists
bound so that a confession could
be wrung from him.
ine court and the assessors
studied his wrists. They noted
marks "of some sort." But there
were no marks on his neck,
His court-appointed attorney
rose anu said that many inno
cent Africans were used by Mau
Mau as carriers and coolies
But the prosecutor cited the
damning evidence: Miano and
his gang were in a prohibited
area when the King's Rifles found
them.
On a recent evening 'Miano,
son of Ngemwe, was marched
out to a scaffolding. The hang
man's rope was placed around
nis neck, me trapdoor was
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sprung. Prescnly Miano was dead.
Ho was one of 14 their ages
ranging from 24' to 37 hanged
between 8 p.m. and 5:30 a.m.
that night after being duly tried
before justices of the Kenya Su
preme Court. .
Since Mau Mau erupted in Oc
tober, 1952, a total of 390 Kenya
blacks have been executed in this
fashion. They die for illegal pos
session of firearms or ammuni
tion, for murder, for consorting
with unlawfully armed persons,
or for taking part in Mau Mau
oath ceremonies.
The Mau Mau ritual includes
bestiality, cannibalism, such acts
as picking out a dead person's
eyes and drinking the fluid from
the sockets.
Mau Mau have killed close to
1,000 Africans, more than 20 Eu
ropeans and more than 20 Asians.
Crown forces are steadily making
inroads in the ranks of the fanat
ics, killing about 200 and captur-
about 50 every month. Yet still
the Mau Mau bathe Kenya in
blood, raiding remote ranches
and settlements.
The most difficult problem of
the settlers is the fact that the
Mau Mau draws its membership
from the Kikuyu, the tribe from
which Europeans have drawn
most of their farm and domestic
workers.
Thus Kikuyu, who by day ap
pear to be passive workers, al
night may be taking part in the
ghastly rites and grim activities
of Mau Mau.
The basic driving force of the
Mau Mau is the claim that the
land belongs to the Kikuyu not
to the whites. The strategy of the
Mau Mau leaders is to establish
rule by terror over all Africans
in Kenya so they will obey Mau
Mau rather than the government.
These are the things in the
minds of the colonists when
suspected Mau Mau comes to
trial. But British justice runs its
slow and careful course in each
ease, with natives advising and
watching proceedings closely.
Miano and the 13 hanged with
him, had appealed their cases,
but all the appeals were dismissed.
Among those hanged was Kar-
whom
a hut
escaped.
ttoya, son of Kanyugi,
patrol flushed out of
Nganda. A companion
Members of the patrol testified
that Karuoya told them he was
"captain Kenya" of the Mau Mau.
In the hut they said they found
a police-type jersey with three
stars on the epaulettes and a bush
shirt with an embroidered badge
lettered "Kenya." They also said
they found a home-made gun of
pipe with a crudely carved stock
and eight rounds of ammunition.
A 16-year-old girl found in the
hut was released. Karuoya claim
ed he was an innocent villager
tending goats nearby when the
patrol arrived. Me was sentenced
to death.
Another hanged was Mbugwa,
son of Muchara, who was captur
ed in a native hotel room in the
Kiambtt district. There police
found "bhang," the local mari
juana, and other equipment be
lieved used in an oath-taking cer
emony. They said they also found two
rounds of small bore ammunition
hidden in a pocket of his under
wear when they searched him.
Mbugwa claimed he wasn't wear
ing any underwear. He was hang
ed for possession of ammunition.
The English do not expect to ex
terminate the Mau Mau out of
existence. In the long run they
look to Christianity and gradual
economic and social changes to
bring peace to this unhappy land
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