Operation Anvil (Mau Mau Uprising) the reserves. The "Grey" grade was made up of prisoners believed to be passive Mau Mau sympatherisers though for whom strong evidence suggesting their true loyalties was lacking. The last category, "Black", was reserved for detainees identified by the hooded informers or the Special Branch of the Kenya Police as potentially violent insurgents or terrorists. A few may have been prosecuted by the government, but most were funneled through the "Pipeline", a system of work camps, decreasing in brutality until an individual was "re-educated" and deemed safe to release on a native reserve. Operation Anvil (Mau Mau Uprising) Operation Anvil
Mau Mau Island Mau Mau Island Mau Mau Island, also called White Island, is a small uninhabited island in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, located between Gerritsen Creek and Mill Creek in Marine Park. Historically, the area around Mau Mau Island was a salt marsh with shifting topography. The island came into existence permanently after 1917, as dumping led to the current shoreline. The area was uninhabited by European settlers until the last 1700's, when a mill and bridge were built. It was donated by the City of New York in the early 1930s, along with much of Marine Park, by