Editing Mau Mau rebellion (section)

====Works camps====
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| quote = Short rations, overwork, brutality, humiliating and disgusting treatment and flogging—all in violation of the United Nations [[Universal Declaration of Human Rights]].<ref name="Curtis 2003 p327">{{Harvnb|Curtis|2003|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=SvRhIh5sbWAC&pg=PA327 327]}}.</ref>
| source = —One colonial officer's description of British works camps
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| sstyle = text-align: right;}}There were originally two types of works camps envisioned by Baring: the first type were based in Kikuyu districts with the stated purpose of achieving the Swynnerton Plan; the second were punitive camps, designed for the 30,000 Mau Mau suspects who were deemed unfit to return to the reserves. These [[forced-labour camp]]s provided a much needed source of labour to continue the colony's infrastructure development.<ref name="Elkins 2005 p153">{{Harvnb|Elkins|2005|p=153}}.</ref>

Colonial officers also saw the second sort of works camps as a way of ensuring that any confession was legitimate and as a final opportunity to extract intelligence. Probably the worst works camp to have been sent to was the one run out of Embakasi Prison, for Embakasi was responsible for the [[Jomo Kenyatta International Airport|Embakasi Airport]], the construction of which was demanded to be finished before the Emergency came to an end. The airport was a massive project with an unquenchable thirst for labour, and the time pressures ensured the detainees' forced labour was especially hard.<ref name="Elkins 2005 pp179-191"/>