Editing Mau Mau rebellion (section)

====Chuka massacre====
The [[Chuka massacre]], which happened in [[Chuka, Kenya]], was perpetrated by members of the [[King's African Rifles]] B Company in June 1953 with 20 unarmed people killed during the Mau Mau uprising. Members of the 5th KAR B Company entered the Chuka area on 13 June 1953, to flush out rebels suspected of hiding in the nearby forests. Over the next few days, the regiment had captured and executed 20 people suspected of being Mau Mau fighters for unknown reasons. The people executed belonged to the [[Kikuyu Home Guard]]—a loyalist militia recruited by the British to fight the guerrillas. All of the soldiers involved in the Chuka patrols were placed under open arrest at Nairobi's Buller Camp, but were not prosecuted. Instead, only their commanding officer, Major Gerald Selby Lee Griffiths, stood trial. Furthermore, rather than risk bringing publicity to the incident, Griffiths was charged with the murder of two other suspects in a separate incident that had taken place several weeks earlier. He was acquitted, but following public outcry, Griffiths was then tried under six separate charges of torture and disgraceful conduct for torturing two unarmed detainees, including a man named Njeru Ndwega. At his court-martial, it was stated that Griffiths had made Ndwega take off his pants, before telling a teenage African private to castrate him. When the private, a 16-year-old Somali named Ali Segat, refused to do this, Griffiths instead ordered him to cut off Ndwega's ear, to which Segat complied.<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=1954-03-22 |title=KENYA: Court-Martial |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,819577,00.html |access-date=2024-03-21 |magazine=Time |language=en-US |issn=0040-781X |archive-date=21 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240321043152/https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,819577,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref> On 11 March 1954, Griffiths was found guilty on five counts. He was sentenced to five years in prison and was [[cashiered]] from the Army.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1954-03-12 |title=Griffiths |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sydney-morning-herald-griffiths/143798091/ |access-date=2024-03-21 |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |pages=1 |archive-date=21 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240321043202/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sydney-morning-herald-griffiths/143798091/ |url-status=live }}</ref> He served his sentence at [[HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs|Wormwood Scrubs Prison]] in London.<ref name="auto">{{cite web |last1=Anderson |first1=David |date=September 2008 |title=A Very British Massacre |url=https://historyslc.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/a-very-british-massacre.pdf |accessdate=16 August 2020 |website=[[History Today]] |archive-date=1 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191101080555/https://historyslc.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/a-very-british-massacre.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette
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}}</ref> None of the other ranks involved in the massacre has been prosecuted.<ref name="FAB">{{cite journal |last1=Anderson |first1=David |last2=Bennett |first2=Huw |last3=Branch |first3=Daniel |date=August 2006 |title=A Very British Massacre |url=http://www.historytoday.com/david-anderson/very-british-massacre |journal=History Today |volume=56 |issue=8 |pages=20–22 |access-date=21 March 2024 |archive-date=5 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190105091255/https://www.historytoday.com/david-anderson/very-british-massacre |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://allafrica.com/stories/200607170327.html|title=Kenya: Unveiling Secrets of Kenya's|first=David|last=Anderson|newspaper=The Nation|date=17 July 2006|via=AllAfrica|access-date=8 April 2024|archive-date=15 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231115005652/https://allafrica.com/stories/200607170327.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{citation |title=MoD 'refusing to release file on massacre of Kenyans' |date=10 July 2006 |work=Telegraph.co.uk |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1523502/MoD-refusing-to-release-file-on-massacre-of-Kenyans.html |access-date=21 March 2024 |archive-date=2 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231202091437/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1523502/MoD-refusing-to-release-file-on-massacre-of-Kenyans.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Lewis|first=Joanna|s2cid=154259805|date=April 2007|title=Nasty, Brutish and in shorts? British colonial rule, violence and the historians of Mau Mau|journal=The Round Table|volume=96|issue=389|pages=201–223|doi=10.1080/00358530701303392|issn=0035-8533}}</ref><ref name="auto"/>