05/05/2022
COLONIZERS IN AFRIKA WERE NOTHING BUT FASCIST N**I .
ALL THESE EUROPAINS GLORIFYING INJUSTICE
IN MEMORY OF THE SILVERTON SIEGE
PRETORIA 1980 .
MESSAGE OF DEDAN KIMATHI
After taking a long journey, travelling throughout Africa and Palestine for three months, I have found that many things have changed, and evil has increased a great deal.
For the return of peace and the birth of a new Kenya, I have told all leaders of my army in the forest to stop fighting from August 1, 1953. General Kahiú-Itina, who is a special leader, is now under arrest for attacking Kagúndúiní, the Tetú Location of Chief Múhoya wa Kagumba of Nyírí, without my permission. We want peace, but we maintain that we must first be recognized as a people.
We will always find food despite your efforts to stop us from getting it.
As a member of the Defense Council of the whole of Africa, and the President of the branch in Kenya, I ask the [Colonial] Government to withdraw all its forces, including the police and the KAR troops from all areas of our country and stop the European settlers from hunting in the forest, then fighting will cease and racial cooperation will be established.
I am telling you, very clearly, that there is no Mau Mau; since the poor man is Mau Mau, it is only Mau Mau, which can finish Mau Mau, not bombs and other weaponry.
Because of the [Colonial] Government's policy of moving people without any consideration, and of harrasing them in the Reserves, many people have come to the forest for fear of being killed, or badly beaten.
As a result, Mau Mau has increased a thousand times and now I am glad that I have many soldiers.
When KAU (Kenya African Union) was proscribed, I congratulated the [Colonial] Government because I received many askaris.
Many Africans who were confined in Nairobi said they had been given a good reason to follow me in the forest.
Every week and every month, I received many people in my office coming from Nairobi, Nakuru and other small towns.
1. If people are being wantonly attacked in towns and even in the reserves, how can they put up with it without running into the forest?
2. If the police and KAR and homeguards withhold food, then who can put up with hunger?
3. If there is no political organization here in Kenya, why should everyone not side with Mau Mau?
4. If colour discrimination continues in Kenya, will the Africans, who have eyes, ears and a brain, remain the underdog?
5. It is better to die than to live in misery; why should we put up with suffering in our hearts [and in our own country]?
Now it is the responsibility of the [Colonial] Government to see whether [what I have said is] true or not. The foundation of lawful cooperation is also the foundation of peace, wealth and progress.
Why should the [Colonial] Government not believe me? I am certain after next month, it will.
Yours,
Field Marshal Dedan Kímathi