Speaker 1: On this daily Working Class History the twenty fourth of January,
Speaker 1: and on the twenty fourth of January nineteen sixty four,
Speaker 1: a mutiny broke out amongst soldiers near Nairobi and in Nakuru, Kenya,
Speaker 1: in protest at low pay for African soldiers. The rebels
Speaker 1: seized weapons and ammunition from an armory at the Lannet Barracks,
Speaker 1: then went on a sit down strike. Kenyan independence leader
Speaker 1: and Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta promised that mutineers would be
Speaker 1: quote dealt with firmly end quote then called in British
Speaker 1: troops to suppress the rebellion. A U S destroyer also
Speaker 1: rushed to the area to back up UK forces. In
Speaker 1: the repression, one African soldier was killed and one soldier
Speaker 1: and one passer by were wounded. It was the third
Speaker 1: such rebellion that week in East Africa. British troops also
Speaker 1: suppressed mutinies with similar demands in Tanzania and Uganda, again
Speaker 1: at the invitation of the new anti colonial leaders and
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