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Secret documents released today reveal the full extent to which Whitehall systematically destroyed files relating to colonial crimes committed in the final years of the British empire.
Files published by the National Archives at Kew tell how administration staff in Kenya, Uganda and Malaya ‘cleansed’ so-called dirty documents.
Material
which could ‘embarrass Her Majesty’s Government’ was burnt, dumped in
rivers or d
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