Mau Mau rebels win the right to sue Britain

 

Three elderly Kenyans were granted the right on friday to sue the British government for compensation over allegations of torture during the Mau Mau uprising that started 60 years ago.

The judgment at the High Court in London, described as "historic" by the Kenyans' lawyer, potentially opens the door to other claims of mistreatment by colonial officers across the British Empire stretching back decades.

The Foreign Office said it did not dispute that Kenya's colonial administration tortured the three Kenyans, all in their 70s and 80s, but added that it would still appeal against the ruling.

It claims that most of the potential witnesses to any court proceedings are dead, that too long has passed for a civil case to be brought, and that a fair trial would be impossible.

However Mr Justice McCombe, sitting in the High Court, said documentary evidence culled from imperial files was "voluminous".

"The governments and military commanders seem to have been meticulous record keepers," he said.
 

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"I have reached the conclusion that a fair trial on this part of the case does remain possible and that the evidence on both sides remains significantly cogent for the Court to complete its task satisfactorily."
The three claimants, Paulo Muoka Nzili, 85, Wambuga Wa Nyingi, 84, and Jane Muthoni Mara, 73, allege that they suffered beatings, castration and sexual assault during their detention by British troops during the rebellion. The uprising, between 1952 and 1960, led to thousands of Kenyans being interned under suspicion of being members of the outlawed Mau Mau sect, which fought the colonial administration.
Mr Nzili, Mr Wa Nyingi and Mrs Mara all want an apology from the British government and compensation for injuries they suffered and lifelong complications that followed.
"I hope that this means that the British government will finally come here to give us something to support our families and to help us," Mr Wa Nyingi told The Daily Telegraph in Nairobi.
Dozens of elderly Kenyans gathered in the Nairobi offices of a human rights organisation's offices to hear the judgment, and ululated, clapped and danced when it was announced.
Gitu wa Kahengeri, the head of the Mau Mau Veterans' Association, said it was "disappointing" that the Foreign Office was to appeal.
"It seems that their strategy is to continue to fight this thing on legal technicalities until we die," he said.
Martyn Day, a lawyer for the three Kenyans, said the judgment was "historic" and would "reverberate around the world".

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THE HIDEN STORY OF MAASAI

There are days I promise that I will bring you news which are related to many things of which other people understand it is very difficult, which is made by the Maasai community. Maasai society which I have the privilege of seeing and living at least in the short term is the Maasai community who are along the border region of Tanga district Kiteto or Manyara Region. In the Maasai community know I have been privileged to discover things of which is not very easy to know if you had the opportunity to have a close Maasai. And I know a lot of you'll know them today are going amazing and it's really amazing and maybe some you have never heard or experienced it.

. In those things which hiden and you can not easily know are as follows: -
 1.  is one among the tribes that are completely contrary to the community while at other Swahili people will kill for jealousy is quite different from the Maasai because the wife is able to go and seek her husband's second wife and three etc.. If required to do so and do not have much sexual jealousy that meet even the fighting action as it occurs in most societies of the world. I find a woman is his wife and they were very happy and I realized I was very surprised when I answered that this was a great wife and daughter I sought him marry my husband as a second wife to share in the work. Is she the sister of Swahili we can? Followers of example.
 2. If the big hedge Masai all unfortunately they died young will be even be a little old to less than ten years he delivered home as head of household, and it is accompanied by a be a wife first for head of household must have has a wife. this also I find it boy called Dainoni at the age of 12 years gets the calamity of his father forcing him to be the head of household, and there had to be given a wife who was 8 years old. Now get a 12 year old child anaoa another child of 8 years and the two begin life as wife and husband. Then when I asked how will things will do as usual? The answer was also amazing that the older morani as uncles etc are helping to make the issues that will have sex with the girl until the young man will be able to do it yourself.

3. This I want to ask yourself how you ever meet the Maasai mad? Or an albino? Or chronic disability? I have my answer is no, but this is why you can not meet this kind of people in Maasai? I wondered this question too that once the baby is born and discovered that he has a disability disability as large as the skin ie the albino child is killed immediately as they believe that it is a great misfortune to misfortune in the Maasai community. In this regard, if you met a Maasai same kind as he was born in the city or the hospital and is very unfortunate to find the mother of the Maasai gives birth hospital, so the problems of the tip as we've been used to seeing for many tribes to Maasai none at all and if the walls are not Maasai who grew up in the masai these days, though these practices have been flowing to the left, though very slow and cultures with some having as usual.

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Deficiency symptoms of Vitamin D.

The best way to discover vitamin D deficiency is to take a blood test that will measure the level of the vitamin in your blood. You can either ask your doctor to administer the test or buy a home test kit do the test yourself. However, you are certainly vitamin D deficient if you have any of the following ailments, and you need to consult with your doctor regarding your preventive, as well as curative, options as soon as possible.

1.) The flu - In a study published in the Cambridge Journals, it was discovered that vitamin D deficiency predisposes children to respiratory diseases. An intervention study conducted showed that vitamin D reduces the incidence of respiratory infections in children.

2.) Muscle weakness - According to Michael F. Holick, a leading vitamin D expert, muscle weakness is usually caused by vitamin D deficiency because for skeletal muscles to function properly, their vitamin D receptors must be sustained by vitamin D.

3.) Psoriasis - In a study published by the UK PubMed central, it was discovered that synthetic vitamin D analogues were found useful in the treatment of psoriasis.

4.) Chronic kidney disease - According to Holick, patients with advanced chronic kidney diseases (especially those requiring dialysis) are unable to make the active form of vitamin D. These individuals need to take 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 or one of its calcemic analogues to support calcium metabolism, decrease the risk of renal bone disease and regulate parathyroid hormone levels.

5.) Diabetes - A study conducted in Finland was featured in Lancet.com in which 10,366 children were given 2000 international units (IU)/day of vitamin D3 per day during their first day of life. The children were monitored for 31 years and in all of them, the risk of type 1 diabetes was reduced by 80 percent.

6.) Asthma - Vitamin D may reduce the severity of asthma attacks. Research conducted in Japan revealed that asthma attacks in school children were significantly lowered in those subjects taking a daily vitamin D supplement of 1200 IU a day.

7.) Periodontal disease - Those suffering from this chronic gum disease that causes swelling and bleeding gums should consider raising their vitamin D levels to produce defensins and cathelicidin, compounds that contain microbial properties and lower the number of bacteria in the mouth.

8.) Cardiovascular disease - Congestive heart failure is associated with vitamin D deficiency. Research conducted at Harvard University among nurses found that women with low vitamin D levels (17 ng/m [42 nmol/L]) had a 67 percent increased risk of developing hypertension.

9.) Schizophrenia and Depression - These disorders have been linked to vitamin D deficiency. In a study, it was discovered that maintaining sufficient vitamin D among pregnant women and during childhood was necessary to satisfy the vitamin D receptor in the brain integral for brain development and mental function maintenance in later life.

10.) Cancer - Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington DC discovered a connection between high vitamin D intake and reduced risk of breast cancer. These findings, presented at the American Association for Cancer Research, revealed that increased doses of the sunshine vitamin were linked to a 75 percent reduction in overall cancer growth and 50 percent reduction in tumor cases among those already having the disease. Of interest was the capacity of vitamin supplementation to help control the development and growth of breast cancer specially estrogen-sensitive breast cancer.

Prevention is proactive

 
 These various health conditions associated with vitamin D deficiency need not be something to fear. A proactive approach to prevention can assist in the avoidance of the many chronic diseases associated with vitamin D deficiency. For one, thousands of dollars can be saved, not to mention the peace of mind, simply at the cost of taking a walk under the sun. Save the umbrellas for the rainy days.