THE RWATHIA MASSACRE AND JIGGERS AS BIOLOGICAL WARFARE AGAINST THE KIKUYU - PROF. NGOTHO KARIUKI
Accountancy expert, Prof. Ngotho Kariuki, who was detained and forced into exile by the Moi regime in the 1980s, was a young man during the war of liberation. He narrates how some men, serving as Mau Mau intelligence, would wear women clothes to gather intelligence for Mau Mau and how children were recruited and trained to spy for Mau Mau fighters. He says that the entire population in Central Part of Kenya was militarised. He explains how those who surrendered to the colonial forces were regarded as more useless than the dead. "Surrenders," as those who had surrendered were called, were regarded as traitors to the cause and they lost status, trust, and humanity itself. They even lost Kikuyu identity itself, hence acquiring a new name suitable for their treacherous and defeatist behaviour - "Surrenders." He also narrates how Gen. Kago strategised and perpetrated the public murder of a white District Officer in Kangema. The fighters sent the torso to the administrative headquarters and took the head with them into the forest. This act precipitated the mass murder of the local population, which is known as Muito wa Rwathia (or Rwathia Massacre), similar to another mass murder that took place in Kiambu called as Muito was Lari or the Lari Massacre. Muito means mass pouring of human blood, or mass murder or genocide. He also remembers Gen Mbaria Kaniu and other fighters.
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Much respect to those courageous freedom fighters. Without you, Kenya could not be made free. Rest in power, warriors.
Im filled with goosebumps,those stories are exactly as my grandma would narrate,my dad is now 70 and he was the last born so his elder brothers together with my grandfather were in the forest,,,,rwathia my home really suffered during this colonial error,my dad attended mihuti primary, whenever i visit this place im saddened by the lack of development in this area,,,it has the most beautiful landscapes but still there are areas with no electricity 🥺
The more I understand the Mau Mau structure, the more amazed I become. This was an insurgency that was very well planned and organized. Thank you so much for the video.
Asante sana Professor for your enchanting recollection of your childhood experiences during a time of war. We appreciate you and all others who have sacrificed their time, effort and resources to bring us these mesmerizing stories about your struggle for uhuru. If I'm not mistaken, you were also involved in another struggle. Later after independence? How I wish you could share that experience as well...
Beautiful conversation, very educative. Hunger as a weapon was very effective. To this day i see how the time that is dedicated to family sustenance and protection has totally been diminished.
@janendegwa5462
10 ай бұрын
But God helped ou parents survive coz mye father and mother grew up there but the older kids were innovative my uncle told me he used to collect some type of leaves and make some kind of fake tea four the younger kids Akina my mum and that time my uncle was still less than 10
general kago was a dreaded fearless fighter from murang'a, a world war 2 veteran, one of the braviest fighters that KLFA produced...
@maumauchronicles4296
10 ай бұрын
As our people say, he was as hot as the soup from the bones of a thin goat!
This is very educative and we appreciate you for your time and effort 👏🏿👏🏿. A big THANK YOU to the guest for taking their time to tell their story✍🏿🕒✊🏿🤝🏿🖤. Feel honoured🙏🏿 #maumau
Villageization is concentration camps. Did the breakup of family structure where men had to go hide in the forest while some were held in concentration camps have an effect on the family breakdown we’re experiencing today? There’s a lot of single mothers especially in Kikuyu community could this be a trauma linked to family disruptions caused by these colonialists?
@kim1570
8 ай бұрын
Yes, that was the genesis of the family dysfunction we see in the Gikuyu family structure today. That, and alcoholism, although I've also read in another document by a certain researcher that alcoholism has its roots decades earlier when our ancestors were kicked off their land and forced to work on the European-owned plantations. Alcohol, especially among men, was used as a form of self medication. Its high time we as a community started talking about these issues.
This is very educational. Just a thought, does anyone else recognize that the way the villages were fenced were exactly like the Jews in Hitler Germany?. The same thing was done to our people after the second world war.
@maumauchronicles4296
10 ай бұрын
The colonialists brought lessons from two main wars: The Anglo-Boer war in South African and the totality of the events during the World War II. It is therefore hardly surprising that the treatment of the Africans has parallels with the holocaust.
@Aeon1019
8 ай бұрын
AFricans are the TRUE ISRAELITES in the Tanakh it talks about those that stayed in Jerusalem were invaded by Assyrian Armies, who would bring their god and relegion to them AND the remainder aka younger posterity would go INTO captivity in Far Away land - vision given to our great great great grandfather Abraham.
Just discovered the Kikuyu name for an undercover agent " komerera" i love it.
i like learning about history
@maumauchronicles4296
8 ай бұрын
Good to know!
Professor of all times 🙏
Villiagelization is a soft term. Those were concentration camps modeled after the Nazì concentration camps. The British had brought Germans in rift Valley to help them crash Nandi rebellion. Those tactics were what the British had seen employed by Nazis against the Jews in Europe.
@maumauchronicles4296
9 ай бұрын
True. These were detention camps. The whole of Mt. Kenya region was under detention.
Thanks Prof for the insightful presentation .Just wondering if our political scientists have done any research on the psychosocial impact of villagization on mothers and children.
Greetings from Paris and from global Black family. I 've got tears in my eyes at earing this testimony.
Thank you we need this history💪🏾❤️🙏🏾
Those wazungus were misleading some of us terribly and also causing hatred among us. Diving and rule. I wouldn't think they were agents of the evil one. Twitikie Njamba ii hinya, MUMBI WA IGURU NA THI. He has been managing this country from before independence and after. Mwene Nyaga arotugirio ni ithui ithuothe. Hallelu YAH!
@maumauchronicles4296
6 ай бұрын
Tukiuge atia?
It is good..what the chronicles are doing educating us on the actual story of what really happened to our people..and bringing in the elderly who were affected and involved to explain the realities then....the suffering was immense... I wish ngugi wathiongo would be in this interview ...and many more of the old scholars then.. I appreciate and commend you for this endeavor to let us hear the truth ...kenya freedom was like no other....it was like nazi germany...
@maumauchronicles4296
10 ай бұрын
Thank you. Always return for more!
Wevhave. Right to sue enmass for this hunger and attrocities by the British , because all our parents were raised in this concentration camps us whose parents were born inthe 40s and 30s
Muthungu niwe caitani gutiri caitani ungi wi irima ria mwaki. Nainyui ngui cia nyakeru cia kuherithia andu anyu murotoma muhuke.
It we're better also to be told I'm Gikuyu language
@richardmaina9539
9 ай бұрын
In Gikuyu language
I hope that we can understand that villages were a creation of the colonialists to distabilise the locals. Otherwise we lived self sufficient lives in homesteads until we were disrupted and disempowered. I hope that we understand that refugee camps are not any different from these collonial villages/ concentration camps. also, city estates are no different from concentration camps. How strange that we have now willingly accepted to be disempowered; everytime we abandon our homesteads in the rural areas to live in cities and refugee camps we give up our self sufficiency. wake up dear children of the soil and lests return to our indigenous way of life and traditions
@germanlopez9448
8 ай бұрын
your statement is very accurate, i wish more young people would learn this and understand.
I'm congolese born. Keep educating us.
Creative memoir
A good movie should follow
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PEOPLE OF KENYA WAS HORRIBLE. SOON KING CHARLES IS COMING TO VISIT KENYA COLONIAL COUNTRY. WONDER HOW FREEDOM FIGHTERS WILL BE REMEMBERED.
How I wish the ropes we used in totality.
@georgeikinya2779
9 ай бұрын
Men and women of those days were wiser.
What the British and America calls him human rights......
One of the forgotten massacres of Mau Mau.
@maumauchronicles4296
10 ай бұрын
True. The Rwathia Massacre remains largely unremarked and un-researched.
Kenya we are a confused society
@cytkl
9 ай бұрын
Yes especially the mungu mzungu shetani worship as jesus is a mental illness
@georgeikinya2779
9 ай бұрын
@@cytklvery true.
@stormy3898
Ай бұрын
This explains so much family tension lmao. I never knew freedom fighter/homeguard dynamic
Cheating, is it *AGE*
@maumauchronicles4296
26 күн бұрын
You are out of your mind.
This discrimination is the same one still going on against Gema,thats why the county commissioners are closing our gikuyu worship centers
@cytkl
9 ай бұрын
Mbeca cia kuherithia mugikuyu is from mzungus until mugikuyu erigwo na aninwo biu. Agikuyu magure micinga please. Tigai guoya.
@janendegwa5462
9 ай бұрын
@@cytkl makigura Ku na other makuragwo kuraihu na mihaka ? Nutuchanukire ta mau tumenye guichuhia
@panafrican.nation
9 ай бұрын
Anyone whose worship center is closed should go to court. This has to stop