Kenyan tribes launch £168bn case against UK in European Court of Human Rights
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Kenyan tribes who were violently forced from their land to make way for tea plantations have launched proceedings against the UK in the European Court of Human Rights.
The Talai and Kipsigi tribes, represented by lawyer Joel Kimutai Bosek, are seeking £168 billion in compensation and a formal apology for the crimes committed during British colonial rule.
Mr Bosek said: “The UK government has ducked and dived, and sadly avoided every possible avenue of redress. We have no choice but to proceed to court for our clients so that history can be righted.”
The land in question, in the western Kenyan region of Kericho, remains at the centre of global tea production today.
The plaintiffs said “some of the world’s most prosperous tea companies, like Unilever, Williamson Tea, Finlay’s and Lipton, occupy and farm these lands and continue to use them to generate considerable profits”.
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