British Tortured and Murdered Enemies in the Former Colonies, According to their Archives

The British Foreign Office has released thousands of documents and records detailing the shameful acts and crimes committed during the twilight years of the British empire, the Guardian reports.

The documents not only detail the persecution of colonial subjects by the British, but also that thousands of even more damaging documents are now thought to have been destroyed.

The surviving papers talk about, among other things, the “elimination” of the colonial authority’s enemies in Malaya in the 1950s, the torture of Mau Mau insurgents in Kenya, fears over a Nazi plot to invade East Africa in 1930, and concerns over the "anti-American and anti-white" tendency of Kenyan students (including President Barack Obama’s father) sent to study in the US in 1959, according to the BBC. Read More