HISTORIANS have digitally reconstructed Britain’s colonial-era Kenyan torture chambers to teach people about the crimes of empire.

The Museum of British Colonialism (MBC) showed 3D models on its website today, exposing the horror of two imperial detention camps in Kenya’s Central province, Aguthi and Mweru.

British colonial administrators in Kenya erected and operated both sites as part of a countrywide “pipeline” comprising more than 100 detention camps, works camps and emergency villages used to detain and control the native Kenyan population during the 1952-60 uprising against imperial rule.