According to Xinhua News Agency, on the 3rd, British media revealed that Barack Obama's grandfather, the US president-elect, was once imprisoned for participating in the Kenyan movement against British colonial rule and was tortured. The Times reported that Obama's grandfather was named Hussein Onyango Obama. During World War II, he served with the British army in Burma. After the war, he returned to Kenya and became an army cook. In 1949, Onyango was arrested for participating in the "Mau Mau Uprising" against British colonial rule. During his two years in prison, he was subjected to cruel punishment and suffered permanent physical injuries.