It has hired the British law firm Leigh Day, which recently won compensation for hundreds of Kenyans tortured by the British colonial government during the Mau Mau rebellion of the 1950s.
Surviving Kenyans got about $4K. I don't see countries that depend on tourism and part of the common wealth really pursuing this grievance with any energy. many of them are also tax havens for wealthy.
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"The British government sincerely regrets that these abuses took place and that they marred Kenya's progress towards independence."
Mr Hague said 5,228 victims would receive payments totalling £19.9m following an agreement with lawyers acting for the victims, who have been fighting for compensation for a number of years.
The compensation amounts to about £3,000 per victim and applies only to the living survivors of the abuses that took place.