"Imperial Guilt And The Mau Mau Payout"

Sir Eric Griffith-Jones, the attorney-general in the British colony of Kenya at the time of the Mau Mau rebellion, was a sensitive soul who worried that the torture and murder of detainees in the prison camps where suspected Mau Mau supporters were being held was “distressingly reminiscent of conditions in Nazi Germany or Communist Russia.” So he wrote the governor in 1957, warning him that “If we are going to sin, we must sin quietly.” - See more at: http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-124025/imperial-guilt-and-mau-mau-payout#sthash.xP4cGo1S.dpuf