Mixed-race Children continue to be born in the remote villages where the British Army Trains ..

Mixed-race children continue to be born in the remote villages where the British Army trains its soldiers in Kenya. The British Army Training Unit, Kenya (BATUK), is headquartered in the town of Nanyuki, about 70 miles southwest of Archer’s Post. BATUK is currently under investigation by the Defense, Intelligence and Foreign Relations committee of Kenya’s National Assembly..

Allegations of rape and other crimes, including murder, by British soldiers deployed there date back to the 1950s, “This to us is an example of British boys behaving badly,” said Marian Mutugi, a commissioner for the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights. 

British boys behaving badly’

Britain pays Kenya about $400,000 a year to allow its soldiers to train in the East African country, mostly in the expansive wildlife conservancies in Laikipia and Samburu counties. Kenya renewed the defense pact in 2021 despite strong local opposition. BATUK has a permanent training base in Nanyuki, to the south of those wildlife conservancies, with 100 full-time staff.

Seventeen-year-old Marian Pannalossy cuts a striking figure wherever she goes in Archer’s Post, a small town 200 miles north of Nairobi. She lives alone and is light-skinned in a place where mixed-race people are a rarity and therefore ostracized, “They call me ‘mzungu maskini,’ or a poor white girl,” she told CNN at her single-room house, a tremor in her voice. “They always say ‘Why are you here? Just look for connections so that you can go to your own people. You don’t belong here. You’re not supposed to be here suffering.’”

A Royal Military Police investigation at the time concluded that most of the Kenyan evidence appeared to have been fabricated, The UK investigators did not conduct DNA tests on any of the 69 mixed-race children alleged to have been born from rape by British soldiers.