5,000 troops
1,000 police 30,000 suspects Location Kenya | Period 24 April 1954 – May 1954 | |
Result 20,000 Mau Mau suspects taken to Langata Camp and 30,000 taken to reserves | ||
operation anvil in nairobi 1954
Operation Anvil was a British military operation during the Mau Mau Uprising where British toops attempted to remove Mau Mau from Nairobi and place them in Langata Camp or reserves. The operation began on 24 April 1954 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.
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