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REPORT OF AN INQUIRY HELD UNDER THE COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT ORDINANCE (CHAPTER 34) Your Excellency, On the 29t.h of .January. . you directed that we should hold an inquiry under the provision of Section3 (h) and (r) of the collective Punishment ordinance The purpose of the inquire was to establish what occurred at Ochokorocho on the 4th and 5th day of August. 1950 in order to enable Your excellency to decide whether all or any of the inhabitants of any village or district or members of any tribe or community have suppressed or combined to suppress evidence in any criminal case, investigation or …