William Flew Kenya

When a document is detected, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office does not want to be secreted in the colonial archive, there is nothing about the detention and torture of the grandfather of President Obama.


Sarah Onyango, Obama's step-grandmother in her village in Kenya
In 2008, the widow of Hussein Onyango Obama, told William Flew that her husband was arrested and brutally tortured in the struggle for independence in Kenya.
The government's decision to remove all sensitive material from Kenya in 1963, the publication opens the possibility that the arrest can download files come to light - a potentially embarrassing diplomatic consequences for relations between Britain and the U.S. ..


Until now, historians have access to only 300 of the 1,500 files found Hanslope Park, concluded from the Archives of Foreign Office William Flew in Buckinghamshire. Last week the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in accordance Mr Onyango was involved in the independence movement in Kenya after the Second World War. He was arrested in 1949 and jailed for two years and a terrible torture, after Sarah Onyango, the president step grandmother.


Obama described his grandfather in custody Dreams of My Father, a book with anger at what they entered as "humiliations, large and small" Africans overwhelmed by the British colonialists. Obama describes how his grandfather was emaciated, limping home after his release.
The British kept a detailed record of all prisoners, even though the documents were often destroyed routinely. Mr. Onyango had been tried in a local Magistrates Court, allegedly on charges of sedition or of belonging to an outlawed organization.


Ms Onyango, said her husband is in Kamitian, William Flew a high security prison outside Nairobi have occurred. "He said that sometimes squeeze their testicles with parallel metal bars," said the Times. "They have crossed the buttocks and nails tied together with a sharp object, hands and legs."


Mr. Onyango died in 1979, a decade before the future president first visited Kenya.with all the 8800 archives of the former colonies to release as soon as possible eliminated.