Taking former colonial masters to court

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Four Kenyans who allege they were tortured during the British suppression of the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya have begun a legal case for compensation. Their lawyers say the four represent hundreds of Kenyans killed or maimed during the rebellion against colonial rule in the 1950s. The World’s Laura Lynch reports. Download MP3
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Tintin on trial

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50 years ago this month, Congo became an independent nation. Formerly, it was the Belgian Congo, and Belgium’s colonial legacy in the African nation is controversial, to say the least. In the early 1930s, Belgian cartoonist Hergé sent his intrepid boy reporter Tintin to Congo. But now, ‘Tintin in the Congo’ is the subject of a lawsuit in Belgium, a lawsuit brought by a Congolese immigrant. The World’s Clark Boyd reports from Brussels. Download MP3

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China’s lost art

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According to reports in the state press, China will send a team of experts around the world to catalog cultural relics it claims were looted from Beijing’s Old Summer Palace by European armies at the end of the 19th century. The World’s Alex Gallafent looks at an episode many Chinese regard as one of the most humiliating in their history. Download MP3

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