A ruling is expected this week in a case involving three Kenyans suing the British government for torture during the 1950 Mau Mau uprising, which could set a precedent that would help victims of abuse in other countries that were once part of the British Empire, NBC News reported. The Kenyan claimants – Paulo Muoka Nzili, Wambuga Wa Nyingi and Jane Muthoni Mara – were detained and brutally beaten during the 1954-1962 revolt in which a million lives were lost. Nzili, now 85, said his treatment left him “completely destroyed and without hope.” In July the U.K. government admitted for the first time that civilians were tortured during the Mau Mau revolt, however the U.K. is still arguing that the uprising took place too long ago to enable a fair trial. The court case of the three elderly Kenyans could also attract the attention of President Barack Obama, who wrote about his Kenyan grandfather and how he was held in a detention camp by colonial authorities in his book "Dreams From My Father."
