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white settler

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white settler
n
(Sociology) a well-off incomer to a district who takes advantage of what it has to offer without regard to the local inhabitants
[from earlier colonial sense]


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Cholmondeley's trial attracted interest due to its setting in "Happy Valley", the lush hills where his great-grandfather Lord Delamere presided over white settlers whose decadent lifestyle was chronicled in the book and film "White Mischief".
Its hit-and-run tactics against white settlers prompted a heavy-handed response from colonial police and allied home guards who rounded up thousands of Kikuyu men and allegedly brutalised and tortured many.
Summary: The heir to Kenya's most famous white settler family has been jailed for a further eight months for shooting a black poacher.
 
 
 
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