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Countries need to go to the countries involved and ask how their citizens need to be remembered. thats something you would agree with. we are told pervasive racism is the reason this happened in the first place. as we look back on this from the perspective of what we know today, how important do you think it is to deal with this and on of the individuals who were not remembered individuals who were not remembered in the first instance in order to tackle that legacy of racism? it’s tackle that ...

And roles— muslims being recorded on tablets and roles because they didnt need individual— and roles because they didnt need individual graves which is not true at all~ _ individual graves which is not true at all~ i_ individual graves which is not true at all. i think they momene concerned about individual graves, as i concerned about individual graves, as i found — concerned about individual graves, as i found in my research. 0ne soldier— as i found in my research. 0ne soldier said, as...

Communities what they would like to see properly commemorate their war dead. at the chattri memorial in sussex, the names of fallen indian soldiers are recorded. these men were not forgotten. the commission says its determined to fulfil its original promise, to commemorate equally all those who died in both world wars. paul adams, bbc news. we have got the latest coronavirus figures. they show that another 18 people have died within 28 days of testing for covid—19, that is within the last 24�...

Soldier. in southern canyou, white i war dead light beneath war memorials in a well tended cemetery. beyond the fence, is whether african comrades are very, no names and no gravestones. this man headed the commonwealth war graves commission and said natives were not civil enough. the report finds at least 116,000 casualties of world where one, mostly africans and indians were not commemorated by name and were not commemorated by name and were not commemorated at all. the consequence? pervasive r...

That was simply not recorded. where it is impossible not to record them, they need to go into local communities to work with their own recorded history. a lot of resources have to be spent with schools and universities, go into these villages and find out and commemorate them in and find out and commemorate them in a suitable way, with a museum, or where you can have their names on memorials, absolutely that should be done. the harshest thing would be to forget them. it is absolutely imperative ...

It will improve peoples jobs, deal. it will improve our economy, it will improve peoplesjobs, make sure that _ it will improve peoplesjobs, make sure that everyone has access to a safe _ sure that everyone has access to a safe, secure — sure that everyone has access to a safe, secure greenjob. all of this is not _ safe, secure greenjob. all of this is not about— safe, secure greenjob. all of this is not about making society worse off, it _ is not about making society worse off, it is _ is no...

Categorising the fallen as white, indians or what it called natives. this village in punjab, then part of british india, sent 460 men to fight in the first world war, the largest of any village in south asia. and yet the war dead are not named. a shock to a british gp who went to research his ancestors from there. i just came across the whitewashing of history when it came to the world wars. and growing up born and bred in nottingham, in history lessons, i never saw a photograph or any story of ...

For the british empire during the first world war. the commonwealth war graves commission found that at least 116,000 people who died werent given headstones, because of what they call "pervasive racism". mark easton has the story. the imperial war graves commission was established with a remit to remember every individual who died for their country regardless of rank, class, religion or race. in france, the immaculate thiepval memorial is an example ofjust that. but outside europe, the commissi...

Personnel, who have not been remembered in the same way as their white counterparts?— white counterparts? absolutely, it was shocking _ white counterparts? absolutely, it was shocking to _ white counterparts? absolutely, it was shocking to find _ white counterparts? absolutely, it was shocking to find at _ white counterparts? absolutely, it was shocking to find at around - was shocking to find at around 54,000 in the middle east, in basra, iraq, palestine and egypt, they were not recorded at a...

Beyond the fence is where their african comrades are buried — no names, no gravestones — a legacy of this man, lord arthur brown, who headed the war graves commission in the 1920s and believed that african natives were not civilised enough to appreciate individual headstones. unlike the war graves at this south london cemetery, todays report finds at least 116,000 casualties of world war i, mostly africans and indians, were not commemorated by name or were not commemorated at all, a conseque...