Comments by "rob shirewood" (@robshirewood5060) on "What was the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya and why should the King apologise for the British actions?" video.

  1. in Malaya they removed native peoples to protected areas so that they could patrol and kill CT's Communist Terrorists and avoid civilian casualties, although there were mistakes. The same idea was used in Vietnam with safe camps and local defence forces staffed by Special Forces and local trained troops. Malaya was the proving ground for the re-growth of the SAS, originally known as the Malayan Scouts SAS under Colonel Michael "Mad Mike" Calvert, a great Chindit leader in ww2 and jungle expert. He rebuilt the Regiment after it had been disbanded in 1945, and in 1947 the former Artists Rifles TA became 21st (Artist's Rifles) Regiment SAS, a component of which was intended to go to Korea but was diverted to Malaya forming one Squadron of the Malayan Scouts SAS. That was the first time a TA or Territorial Army unit was used to form a Corps, in which the Regular Regiment formed in 1952 was 22nd Special Air Service Regiment from the Malayan Scouts. Without the experiences in Malaya, Borneo, Radfan, Aden, etc we would not have the finest special forces in the world, 22 SAS and their Reserve components 21 and 23.
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  2.  @Occident.  KC3 is a Para, he has the wings, and not a parasite
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  3.  @candy-le4nh  We left them intact and useable, including rolling stock and that is an almighty investment they still use, so it does benefit Kenya as a whole, anything else is down to the local corruption or incompetence.
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  4. C Squadron (Rhodesia) of SAS was also in Malaya, which later had to deal with a similar uprising within Rhodesia, also aided by Marxists trained in the USSR, and look at the mess Mugabe made of the country, so much so they were begging the white farmers to return to rebuild the economy and agricultural base.
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  5.  @jharekcarnelian  Time the Commonwealth was ended imho
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  6. Does not mention that the mau mau killed many black people too.
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  7. You may be very surprised at what the Brits will do in the not too distant future.
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  8. i think a policeman Two Gun Bill Jordan emptied 6 rounds from a .44 Ruger Blackhawk into a drugged up mau mau attacking him before the mau mau dropped
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