Caroline Elkins
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Oct 1, 2026
David WearingGUEST
The counterinsurgency war that the British waged in Kenya in the 1950s was absolutely horrific.
David WearingGUEST
And if people ever get the chance to read the books written by, say, Caroline Elkins on that, it's the stuff of nightmares.
David WearingGUEST
And this is collective punishment as well.
David WearingGUEST
In Yemen, it's collective punishment.
David WearingGUEST
You read the accounts of how ordinary civilians, men, women, and children were treated in these camps.
David WearingGUEST
It really is the stuff of nightmares.
David WearingGUEST
It's one of the most horrible things I've ever read, I think, is the accounts of the Kenyan gulag as, as Caroline Elkins describes it.
David WearingGUEST
Now, for years, there was no accountability whatsoever.
William DalrympleGUEST
The RAF was responsible for nearly half the official kills in the entire revolt.
William DalrympleGUEST
Caroline Elkins, the professor at Harvard, is a Pulitzer Prize winner, has traced these methods directly through subsequent deployment.
William DalrympleGUEST
It starts in Ireland, it goes to Palestine, it moves to Malaya, then to Kenya during Mau Mau, then Cyprus, then back to Northern Ireland in the Troubles.
William DalrympleGUEST
And she identifies Palestine as the laboratory in which the later British Empire developed counterinsurgency techniques it would then use across the rest of the colonial world for another generation.