The massacre of Ethnic Kipsigis with punitive British expedition
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Sotik Massacre
Sotik
Sotik (Kenya)
Location
Sotik, British East Africa
Date
June 1905
Target
Ethnic Kipsigis
Attack type
Massacre
Deaths
Between 900 and 1850
Perpetrators
British East Africa Protectorate
Richard Pope-Hennessy
Motive
Reprisal for a raid
In June 1905, 1,850 ethnic Kipsigis men, women and children were killed in a punitive expedition dubbed Sotik expedition by the colonial British government forces led by Major Richard Pope-Hennessy.[1][2] This was as a result of a raid by the Kipsigis on the Maasai which saw the Kipsigis part with Maasai cows, women and children to which the government demanded redress and return of the spoils of the raid but to which the Kipsigis returned in insults and turned down the warning.[3] In effect, this led to alienation of tribal land to what would become part of Kenyan White Highlands.
^War Medals and Their History. p. 258.
^The Truth on the Congo Free State. 1906. p. 6.
^Meinertzhagen, Richard (1983). Kenya Diary (1902-1906). Eland Books. p. 221. ISBN 0907871100.
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