THE INTERROGATION OF NYARUAI ~~From the book Britain's Gulag~~

THE INTERROGATION OF NYARUAI 

~~From the book Britain's Gulag~~

Margaret Nyaruai, a young woman at the time of Mau Mau, was taken to the screening hut on the estate of her settler employer near Kabaru not long after the start of the Emergency in Kenya.

The state of emergency was declared by the governor of Kenya, Sir Evelyn Baring, due to the Mau Mau rebellion against British colonial rule and incarceration of thousands of Kenyans.

There she was beaten by a white man whom the Kikuyu had nicknamed Karoki, or He Who Comes at Dawn, and by the young settler turned British colonial officer nicknamed YY. 

While being screened, Margaret was asked:

Questions like:

.... "the number of oaths I had taken, where my husband went, where two of my stepbrothers had gone (they had gone into the forest).

 I was badly whipped, while naked. They didn’t care that I had just given birth. In fact, I think my baby was lucky it was not killed like the rest…. 

...... Apart from the beatings, women used to have banana leaves and flowers inserted into their vaginas and rectums, as well as have their breasts squeezed with a pair of pliers; after which, a woman would say everything because of the pain…

...... even the men had their testicles squeezed with pliers to make them confess! After such things were done to me, I told them everything. I survived after the torture, but I still have a lot of pain in my body even today from it."

Margaret’s confession did not earn her release. Instead, Karoki forced her to labor without pay on his estate throughout most of the Emergency. 

From time to time the screening teams, hungry for any information, continued to interrogate her, often thrusting hot eggs into her vagina to force her to talk

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