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Squalid End to Empire: British Retreat from
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witnessed this. The truth was concealed from the British people. I thought one
family should hold true to
My story
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since 1956 when I refused orders and took a stand for civilised values in
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Letter of 27 January 2009 to Prime Minister Gordon
Brown
Ref: Reply of 17 November 2008 from Mr Davies of The Direct Communications Unit
to my letter of 9 November addressed to William Hague, MP
Dear Mr Brown,
President Obama will have read with great interest two recent books
on
The CIA has fully documented records of the truth of these evil events, to which I am drawing President Obama’s attention. You, of course, know these British secrets well, as my many letters to you record.
President Obama is making history with a fresh start for the
I go back to 1943 when I joined the Labour Party, and it was in 1949
that I was presented to Mr Attlee as a leader of Labour Youth in the
Yours sincerely,
(Signed) Harold Smith
(Copy letter sent to President Barack Obama)
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Letter of 27 January 2009 to President Barack Obama
Dear President Obama.
I am inviting Prime Minister Gordon Brown to come clean on British
evil in
The secret British state has, without due process, punished me for fifty years with virtual house arrest, surveillance and harassment. I should like Mr Brown to come clean on that too, and make proper redress.
Yours sincerely,
(Signed) Harold Smith
(Copy letter sent to Rt. Hon Gordon Brown, MP, Prime Minister)
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Letter of 27 January 2009 to the
Your Excellency,
Will you please forward the enclosed letter with attachments to President Obama.
I owe a debt of gratitude to the CIA, for they sought to protect my life in 1960. My password was ‘Donovan’. An acknowledgement would be appreciated. My website above tells my story.
Yours sincerely,
(Signed) Harold Smith
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Article from ‘New African’. Issue of February 2009.
Pages 72-74
The British tortured Obama’s grandfather
Today,
the British go abroad to preach human rights to other nations.
But not too long ago, they were torturing freedom
fighters all over their colonies in
including President Barack Obama’s Kenyan grandfather.
Cameron Duodu reports.
In the October issue of New African, my
article, “How
The Black Struggle Is Interconnected”, recounted how, in October 1945, many black politicians from
Africa, the
I linked the
“In a very literal sense [then]... Obama is the product of the Black Struggle around the world. Looking at him now [I continued], it may be difficult for the ordinary person to link him to the city of Manchester and the conference held there in 1945 that was to have such a revolutionary effect on the future of Africa and significantly, on Kenya, the land that gave birth to Obama’s father.”
Since I wrote that article, information has
come to light showing that Obama’s links to the Kenyan freedom struggle are
even more rock-solid than I had imagined. Both Obama’s father and his
grandfather were jailed by the British during
The amazing aspect of the affair is that Obama’s grandfather was a Luo, and not a Kikuyu, the ethnic group that spearheaded the Kenyan freedom struggle. The British line has all along been that the Mau Mau freedom fighters were Kikuyu tribalists who wanted to drive away both whites and other Kenyan tribes — including the Luo - from Kikuyu lands.
To achieve their purpose, the British alleged in their propaganda that the Kikuyu resorted to atavistic “oath-swearing” ceremonies during which they swore to kill everyone who was not a Kikuyu. But The Times has unearthed evidence that shows that this was a deliberate piece of disinformation, disseminated to win the other ethnic groups to the British side and turn them into the enemies of the Kikuyu. In other words, “divide and rule!” What’s new?
Barack Obama’s grandfather was called
Hussein Onyango Obama, and fought in
On being discharged from the army, Onyango
Obama managed to find work as a cook for a British military officer serving
with the British army contingent based in
During two years’ detention in a
high-security prison, he was subjected, according to his family, to horrific
tortures to extract information from him about what he knew about the growing
unrest in
Interviewed by The Times, Obama’s grandmother (whom Obama calls “Granny Sarah”) said: “The African warders were instructed by the white soldiers to whip my husband every morning and evening till he confessed.” That they kept him in jail for two solid years indicates that he did not crack under torture. He probably did not have anything to reveal anywav, but the British didn’t care.
Mrs Sarah Onyango, who is now 87, said white soldiers visited the prison every two or three days to carry out “disciplinary action” on the inmates suspected of “subversive activities’.
Her husband later told her upon his release from prison that the white soldiers “would sometimes squeeze his testicles with parallel metallic rods. They also pierced his nails and buttocks with a sharp pin, with his hands and legs tied together, his head facing down.”
Obama refers briefly to his grandfather’s imprisonment in his best-selling memoir, Dreams from My Father, but states that his grandfather was “found innocent”.
Grandpa Onyango Obama served the British Army well in Burma during World War II and, like many army veterans, his hope, on returning to Africa was that Africans, having helped the British defeat the Germans and the Japanese, would be given greater freedoms from colonial rule.
Instead, the British seized their lands. So
although Grandpa Onyango was a Luo from western
“He did nor like the way the British soldiers and colonialists were treating Africans, especially members of the Kikuyu Central Association,” Mrs Onyango said.
But the records of Grandpa Onyango’s trial and imprisonment do not survive because “all such documentation was routinely destroyed in British colonies after six years”.
The British responded to the Kenyan
rebellion with unimaginable brutality: at least 12,000 freedom fighters were
“officially” listed as having been killed, most of them Kikuyu. But Kenyans
believe that the overall death toll was more than 50,000. Yet although British
propaganda claimed that the Mao Mau wanted to kill all Europeans, “in total,
just 32 European settlers were killed”, acknowledges The Times.
Mrs Onyango believes that her husband was
denounced to the British authorities by his own white employer, who sacked him
on suspicion of consorting with “troublemakers”. She recalls the day of her
husband’s arrest. He was picked up by two soldiers, and taken to Kamiti prison,
the national maximum-security prison outside
Mrs Onyango said some of her husbands fellow inmates were beaten to death with clubs.
During Obama’s first visit to
“Men in our area began to join the Kikuyu in demonstrations. . . many men were detained, some never to be seen again,” she told her grandson.
At the height of the rebellion, an estimated
71,000 Kenyans were held in prison camps. The vast majority were never
convicted. According to the Harvard historian, Caroline Elkins, who won a
Pulitzer Prize for her exposé of British atrocities during the Mau Mao
uprising, there were reports of sexual violence (homosexual rapes) and
mutilation using “castration pliers” inside the prison camps. “This was an
instrument devised to crush the men’s testicles,” Elkins writes in
Several hundred letters from camp inmates survive in the Kenyan National Archives, “chronicling camp conditions, forced labour, torture, starvation and murder”, according to Elkins.
One white policeman, Duncan McPherson, told Barbara Castle, the former Labour cabinet minister, that conditions in some Kenyan detention camps were “worse, far worse, than anything I experienced in my four and a half years as a prisoner of the Japanese”.
Grandpa Onyango, who was only 56 when he was arrested, came out of prison prematurely aged and deeply embittered. In his memoir, Obama described his grandfather’s shocking physical state: “When he returned to Alego. he was very thin and dirty. He had difficulty walking, and his head was full of lice.” For some time, he was too traumatised to speak about his experiences. “From that day on, I saw that he was now an old man,” Mrs Onyango said.
Barack’s father was also arrested, for
attending a meeting in
In 1960, Barack Obama Snr travelled on a
scholarship to the
NEW AFRICAN February 2009
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Letter of 2
February 2009 to Mr Dominic Grieve, MP, Shadow Justice
Minister
Dear Mr Grieve,
Conservatives and the Immoral Imperative
As you know, I want British politicians to distance themselves from
the excesses that scarred
British behaviour in
There are honest mistakes by Governments, but also occasions when
Governments seem determined to go on doing the wrong thing, even though the
policy is criminal and even downright evil. When there is extensive planning,
total secrecy and then an extensive cover-up for half a century, the
criminality is clearly calculated and
Opposition Parties can co-operate or collaborate in secrecy, through the Privy Council, in covert dirty work abroad, but the Government in power is supposed to accept full responsibility. Successor Governments may collaborate in cover-ups and share guilty knowledge.
In
I enclose a statement by Professor Ronald Hyams, an official
government historian, which underlines the importance of the
If
It is fairly obvious that, only if a civilisation examines itself frankly
and accepts the truth, can it draw the right lessons and advance in the right
way thereafter. This may be a cliché, but it is no less true for that. As
Professor Grayling, to whom I am indebted, states in his classic study of
British bombing of German cities, ‘We owe it to our future to get matters
straight about the past.’ If we do not accept as moral crimes, British evil
acts in
It is a fact that British machinations in
Should colonial officials have refused to carry out these evil acts?
Yes, absolutely. A few British officials rebelled and were punished severely.
They need redress too. The majority betrayed their trust and retired, in the
case of
In 1960 the
You may feel, Mr
Grieve, that it is honourable to protect the reputation of Tory statesmen like
Harold Macmillan (as Gordon Brown might
I am reaching out, beyond the embracing of sad truths, to reconciliation and celebrating whatever that is positive and good that can be found. We could be allies on this journey.
Yours sincerely,
(Signed) Harold Smith
Enclosure:
… Eleven Africans were killed … as a result of beatings. About
twenty others were seriously injured at Hola Camp in the same incident. If one had
to choose a single fateful date which signalled the moral end of the British
empire in
Ronald Hyam’s Introduction xlv
‘The Conservative Government and the end of Empire 1957-1964.’
Part 1. British documents on the end of Empire, Series A Volume 4.
The Stationery Office. 2000
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The History of Britain is the History of War.
This was the biggest of the many, dirty, bloody British wars since 1945. Both the Conservative and Labour and Liberal leadership cliques work together to plan and operate and cover up all this mayhem with total press, media, and establishment co-operation.
The
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Information is sought by former British Government senior
civil servant Harold Smith (Nigeria 1955-1960) regarding British treason,
including the rigging of
British officials served with great honour and distinction
in
Sadly, many old
Permission to publish this material was sought and granted by the Cabinet Office and D-Notice Committee, subject to an agreement that no Secret Service officials should be named. May I request correspondents to respect my obligation in this matter and to kindly withhold such personal details. Cabinet Office letters of March/April 1993, reference A093/927/1152/1281, and Ministry of Defence letter DM/1712/DPBC of 13 January 1993 refer.
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