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At the same time, reports had
started to come back from one of the last parts of
the Empire - Kenya - that seemed to show that those
in charge had gone out of control. They had been fighting a liberation
movement called the Mau Mau. The report said that hundreds
of thousands of Kenyans had been put into special camps,
where they were going to be psychologically adjusted. The British were trying
to manipulate what their chief psychologist
called the "African mind". But what then happened in the camps
turned into a frenzied madness. The British used mass torture
and killing as they desperately tried
to hold on to power
started to come back from one of the last parts of
the Empire - Kenya - that seemed to show that those
in charge had gone out of control. They had been fighting a liberation
movement called the Mau Mau. The report said that hundreds
of thousands of Kenyans had been put into special camps,
where they were going to be psychologically adjusted. The British were trying
to manipulate what their chief psychologist
called the "African mind". But what then happened in the camps
turned into a frenzied madness. The British used mass torture
and killing as they desperately tried
to hold on to power
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At the same time, reports had
started to come back
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from one of the last parts of
the Empire - Kenya -
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that seemed to show that those
in charge had gone out of control.
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They had been fighting a liberation
movement called the Mau Mau.
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The report said that hundreds
of thousands of Kenyans had been put
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into special camps,
where they were going to be
00:00:21.056 --> 00:00:24.998
psychologically adjusted.
00:00:24.998 --> 00:00:26.000
The British were trying
to manipulate
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what their chief psychologist
called the "African mind".
00:00:30.998 --> 00:00:34.084
But what then happened in the camps
turned into a frenzied madness.
00:00:34.084 --> 00:00:37.036
The British used mass torture
and killing
00:00:37.036 --> 00:00:39.088
as they desperately tried
to hold on to power.
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Movie Summary
Love, power, money, ghosts of empire, conspiracies, artificial intelligence and You. An emotional history of the modern world by Adam Curtis.
