King Charles III expressed 'greatest sorrow and the deepest regret' for the 'abhorrent and unjustifiable acts of violence' committed against Kenyans.
King Charles III on Tuesday 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 to their country. But he didn't explicitly apologize for Britain's actions in its former colony, as many Kenyans wanted.
Politician and human rights activist Koigi Wamwere said that the king ought to apologize and offer full reparations for the two countries to move forward and that “Britain must undo as much as they can.” 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.
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