Operation Anvil (Mau Mau Uprising)

Operation Anvil
Part of the Mau Mau Uprising
Location
Nairobi, British Kenya
Planned byBritish Armed Forces in Kenya
Commanded byGeorge Erskine
TargetNairobi section of the Mau Mau[1]
Date24 April–26 May 1954
Executed byKing's African Rifles
Kenya Police
OutcomeBritish operational success; Mau Mau activity suppressed
Casualties50,000+ Kenyans detained

Operation Anvil was a British military operation during the Mau Mau Uprising where British troops attempted to remove suspected Mau Mau from Nairobi and place them in Langata Camp or reserves. The operation began on 24 April 1954[2] 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.[3][4]

  1. ^ Alao 2006, p. 45.
  2. ^ "1954: British crackdown on Kenya rebels" On this Day BBC: 24 April accessed 9 November 2013
  3. ^ "Operation Anvil" at History of Kenya accessed 9 November 2013
  4. ^ ""OPERATION ANVIL" IN KENYA". The Canberra Times. 5 May 1954. p. 1. Retrieved 9 November 2013 – via National Library of Australia.