Kapenguria six biography channels
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Who were Kenya’s “Kapenguria Six” and what became of them?
A State of Emergency was declared in Kenya on 20th October 1952, and the said “Kapenguria Six” were amongst several people rounded up and detained in what was referred to as “Operation Jock Scott” that roughly covered a 24 hour period of time from 20th to 21st October 1952.
The “Kapenguria Six” were regarded as the prime suspects in managing “Mau Mau,” and “conspiring to murder all White residents of Kenya,” and their trial, under Judge Ransley Thacker, formally began on 3rd December 1952, and concluded on 8th April 1953, with Judge Ransley Thacker finding all six men guilty, and sentencing each of them to seven years in prison with hard labour.
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The dreaded “stroke of a cane” of years past?
That they were spared.
All six men served their sentences, and interestingly, there has never been any mention of all six m