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All this week we're looking back at moments of protest and resistance and today Louise

Hidalgo takes us back to the armed struggle against British colonial rule in Kenya.

Thousands of suspected Maumau rebels had been locked up in internment camps and some were tortured.

Then in October 1956 the authorities captured the Mao-Mao leader, Dedan Kimathi.

To the little town of Nairi in Kukulia Territory, Kenya Police bring the biggest prize of the anti-terrorist campaign,

Dedan Kymathi, self-styled Field Marshal of the Maama Organization.

Kimathi was wearing a leopard skin jacket and cap, half disguise, half uniform,

when they ambushed and wounded him.

By the time that Dead and Kami, the Myama Lido was captured,

there were no more than around 2, 250

my fighters left in the forests. And by then the colonial authorities had been

very effective in isolating these groups and cutting them off from their

support. Professor David Anderson is one of the leading chroniclers of the Ma'amau.

The leading special branch officer in Kenya man named Ian Henderson had targeted Kamathi and

they'd sent into the forests a number of Maamao turncoats who'd been captured and had been persuaded

to fight for the British.

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