00:00He fought for his country's independence, but his service to the nation has been forgotten.
00:06Christopher Njora Murono, one of the Kenyan Mau Mau rebellion's last leaders, died aged 106 and was buried on Saturday.
00:15But his relatives bemoan that many Mau Mau fighters have not received the recognition they deserve from the Kenyan government,
00:21including in death.
00:23He was a national figure, a national figure, a national hero who will be remembered in history.
00:33But he has been buried just like any other person.
00:37He didn't get the send-off he deserved from any other person apart from the family.
00:45As the family we have given him, the send-off he deserved.
00:48But as a national hero, no.
00:50This indignation is also shared by some of the few surviving other veterans who knew Murondio.
01:00We were together with this old man in 1952 when we went to the bush.
01:07We fought very hard and many people died.
01:11By God's grace we survived.
01:14And now I have come to bury my friend.
01:21After their rebellion against British colonial rule, the Mau Mau's contributions to independence were ignored for decades by the Kenyan
01:28government out of fear of angering Western countries.
01:35I am calling on the Kenyan government, those currently in power, to remember the Mau Mau rebels.
01:45Almost all of them are gone now.
01:48Those who brought the fruits of the freedom being enjoyed today should not be forgotten.
01:58But as the numbers of remaining Mau Mau veterans shrink, the time for getting the recognition they seek is getting
02:05shorter and shorter.
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02:08the number one will under the sail to make sure they fear the resultado of the你 when we fight againstraction
02:09andيف, as well as the teacher is saying it, but also theicorn of the
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