Operation Anvil

Quand

24 avr. 1954 – mai 1954

Type

Opération militaire

Coordonnées

1.28° S, 36.82° E

Description

British Army's mass detention in Nairobi, Kenya

Placé à : town its description names, Nairobi.

British Army's mass detention in Nairobi, Kenya

Operation Anvil was a British military operation during the Mau Mau Uprising where British troops attempted to remove suspected Mau Mau from Nairobi and place them in Langata Camp or reserves. The operation began on 24 April 1954 and took two weeks, at the end of which 20,000 Mau Mau suspects had been taken to Langata, and 30,000 more had been deported to the reserves.

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