Operation Anvil (Mau Mau Uprising)

Operation Anvil

Date	24 April - May 1954
Location	Kenya
Result	20,000 Mau Mau suspects taken to Langata Camp and 30,000 taken to reserves

Belligerents

United Kingdom

Mau Mau

Strength

5,000 troops
1,000 police

30,000 suspects

Mau Mau Uprising

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Operation Anvil was a British military operation during the Mau Mau Uprising where British toops attempted to remove Mau Mau from Nairobi and place them in Langata Camp or reserves. The operation began on 24 April 1954^[1] 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.^[2]^[3]

References

↑ "1954: British crackdown on Kenya rebels" On this Day BBC: 24 April accessed 9 November 2013
↑ "Operation Anvil" at History of Kenya accessed 9 November 2013
↑ ""OPERATION ANVIL" IN KENYA.". The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995). ACT: National Library of Australia. 5 May 1954. p. 1. Retrieved 9 November 2013.

External links

Operation Anvil newsreel report at British Pathe
Operation Anvil at National Army Museum

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