Royally undisclosed papers to be made civic

A set of receptive documents from UK's colonial past are to be made communal through the National Archives for the first time.

The files were dispatched to the UK from different previous regions, mostly at the time they got independence. The documents come out when four Mau Mau veterans prosecute the UK, saying they were suffering by Kenyan colonial government in the 1950s.

The UK government says it cannot be held responsible. It desires the asserted thrown out by the High Court. Foreign Secretary William Hague said the Foreign Office only became attentive of the implication of the files in January because of study associated to the court case.

He said: "I think that it is the right thing to do for the information in these files now to be appropriately inspected and recorded and made available to the public.

This will clear the last days of Empire in ways that will be appalling for some people in UK”

"It is my aim to release every component of every paper of interest, subject only to legal immunity."

Mr. Hague said the work of making the papers public would be done "quickly", but that it might take some time to finish because of the size of the records.

David Anderson, professor of African politics at Oxford University, told that the files were of "massive consequences".

He said: "These are a collection of preferred documents pending for their sensitivity. We will study things the British government of the time didn't want us to recognize."

"They are probably to alter our analyses of some crucial places", he said. "It will simplify the last days of Empire in ways that will be awful for some people in the UK."

The Foreign Office says authorities have explained the governments of those past British regions which might be precious.

The four Kenyans litigating the Britain say they were attacked between 1952 and 1961 by British colonial authorities in custody camps during the Mau Mau uprising.

A large numbers of people engaged in the insurgence, or alleged of supporting it, were sent to the camps for "screening", or questioning.

UK says it cannot be held responsible for the exploits of a colonial government.

The Kenya Human Rights Commission has said 90,000 Kenyans were executed, distressed or injured during the raid, and 160,000 were arrested in terrible conditions.