Operation Anvil (Mau Mau Uprising) Many Kikuyu were sympathetic to the Mau Mau cause and provided the insurgents with supplies. They also housed them, thereby facilitating attacks in the city and the neighboring Kiambu District. In June General George Erskine was dispatched to Kenya to assume control over British forces. He immediately began instituting reforms and organised a series of attacks against the Mau Mau. In January 1954 the British captured rebel leader Waruhiu Itote, who gave them critical information about Mau Mau deployments and strategy under interrogation. Two months later the colonial command structure was overhauled, increasing decision-making efficiency and granting Erskine greater influence
Khairabad, Mau Khairabad, Mau Khairabad is a census town in Mau district, in the eastern part of Uttar Pradesh India. It is located on the Mau-Azamgarh route, adjacent to Muhammadabad Gohna Khairabad as of census 2011, had a population of 12,056. Males constitute 51% of the total population while females constitute 49%. Khairabad has an average literacy rate of 60%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy rate is 65%, and female literacy is 54%. In Khairabad, 23% of the population is under 6 years of age. The main occupation here is the production of sarees from silk, cotton, mercerized,