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5,228 Kenyans who were tortured during the Mau Mau uprising to be compensated. Photo/AFP

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UK pays Sh300k each to Mau Mau victims

“It is of course right that those who feel they have a case are free to bring it to the courts,” Hague said, but Britain would “also continue to exercise our own right to defend claims”.

“And we do not believe that this settlement establishes a precedent in relation to any other former British colonial administration,” he added.

More than 10,000 people were killed during the 1952-1960 Mau Mau uprising and tens of thousands were detained.

Leigh Day said the delay in bringing the claims was because of a lack of research into the events of the time, and because the Mau Mau had been a taboo subject in Kenya until recent years.

But the discovery of a vast archive of colonial-era documents which the Foreign Office had kept hidden for decades revealed the extent of the mistreatment.

That has led to suggestions that London could also face fresh claims from other former colonial administrations.

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