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A List of Bad Things The Queen Did (Before Dying)

It Could Happen Here

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During the 1950s, British tried to get control of lands in Kenya that they had violently. They were trying to keep control of land that they had previously stolen. Native Kenyans fought back in the Mao Mao uprising. Now historians have documented widespread torture by British forces. Up to 320,000 people in concentration camps where they then endured slavery, starvation, murder, and rape with blunt objects. Meanwhile, 1.5 million Kenyans were confined to a network of detention camps and heavily patrolled villages. So this was all overseen by Queen as the head of state.

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