43. 关于殖民主义，2011 年 4 月，茅茅起义运动的退伍军人在联合王国提起诉讼，要求对攻击、殴打和疏忽作出赔偿。索赔人在 1950 年代被联合王国政府关押在拘留营期间遭受酷刑、阉割和性虐待。146在英国殖民政府镇压茅茅起义运动期间，约 150 万肯尼亚人被关押在拘留营中，被限制在村庄里，遭受系统的酷刑和虐待。147 高等法院准许茅茅起义运动提出起诉的权利，允许案件的审理。148政府最终了结了诉讼，并同意向 5 228 名虐待的幸存者支付 1 990 万英镑的损害赔偿金。政府还发表了道歉声明，承认：肯尼亚人受到殖民地政府的酷刑和其他形式的虐待。英国政府对发生了这些虐待行为深表遗憾，这些事件阻碍了肯尼亚走向独立的进程。酷刑和虐待是对人的尊严所作的令人发指的侵犯，我们毫无保留地予以谴责。149
43. With regard to colonialism, in April 2011 veterans of the Mau Mau movement filed suit in the United Kingdom, requesting compensation for assault, battery and negligence. The claimants were tortured, castrated and sexually abused while held in detention camps by the Government of the United Kingdom in the 1950s.146 Some 1.5 million Kenyans were held in detention camps and confined to villages and subjected to systematic torture and abuse during the repression of the Mau Mau independence movement by the British colonial Government. 147 The High Court of Justice granted the Mau Mau the right to sue, permitting the case to move forward. 148 The Government ultimately settled the suit and agreed to pay £19.9 million in damages to 5,228 survivors of abuse. The Government also issued an apology, admitting t hat: Kenyans were subject to torture and other forms of ill treatment at the hands of the colonial administration. The British government sincerely regrets that the se abuses took place, and that they marred Kenya’s progress towards independence. Torture and ill treatment are abhorrent violations of human dignity which we unreservedly condemn. 149