NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — King Charles III has expressed “greatest sorrow and the deepest regret” for the “abhorrent and unjustifiable acts of violence” committed against Kenyans as they sought independence, during a speech on his first day of a four-day
visit. But he didn't explicity apologize for Britain's actions in its former colony, as many Kenyans wanted.
Ruto told the banquet that Britain's response to Kenya's quest for self-rule was “monstrous in its cruelty.” Colonial authorities resorted to executions and detention without trial as they tried to put down the insurrection, and thousands of Kenyans said they were beaten and sexually assaulted by agents of the administration.
The four-day visit is full of symbolism. Charles’ mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II, learned that she had become the U.K. monarch while visiting a game preserve in the East African nation — at the time a British colony — in 1952. Salim David Nganga, speaking at the capital’s Jevanjee Gardens, where colonial statues were brought down in 2020, said that “the king should never have been allowed to step in this country, considering the dark history of British colonialists."Joel Kimutai Kimetto, 74, said his grandfather and father were kicked out of their ancestral home by the British.
Another group of protesters briefly chanted anti-British songs and threw roses at the foot of a monument to Mau Mau veteran Dedan Kimathi in Nairobi's central business district on Tuesday. Uniformed and plain-clothed police officers dispersed the group.
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