Why did the British Empire burn, sink, and hide these documents?
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Audra A. Diptée |
TED-Ed
• April 2023
In 2009, five Kenyan people took a petition to the British Prime Minister. They claimed they endured human rights abuses in the 1950s, while Kenya was under British colonial rule, and demanded reparations. They had no documentary evidence that Britain sanctioned systems of torture— but thousands of secret files were waiting to be discovered. Audra Diptée digs into the Operation Legacy documents. [Directed by Hernando Bahamon, narrated by Christina Greer, music by Manuel Borda].