00:00Britain tortured thousands of people. Then they buried the proof. And for 50 years, it worked.
00:06During the 1950s, Kenya was fighting for independence from British rule.
00:11The British response was brutal.
00:13Detention camps held over 80,000 Kenyans suspected of joining the Mau Mau resistance.
00:19Inside those camps, guards castrated men, beat prisoners, and carried out sexual violence.
00:25These were not rogue soldiers acting alone. The orders came from above.
00:28When Kenyan independence approached, British officials knew what the records would reveal.
00:33So they launched Operation Legacy. Files were burned. Crates of documents were shipped to London.
00:39The evidence vanished. Survivors spent decades trying to sue.
00:43They were told nothing existed. No records. No proof. No case.
00:48Then in 2011, a storage facility called Hanslope Park gave up its secret.
00:54Thousands of files. Never destroyed. Just hidden.
00:57The survivors were in their 80s. Some had waited 60 years.
01:02Britain settled for 19.9 million pounds.
01:05The cover-up nearly worked. It came down to one building no one had checked.
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