2021-04-29 14:05:49 GMT2021-04-29 22:05:49(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
LONDON, April 29 (Xinhua) Pervasive racism was behind the failures to properly commemorate African and Asian troops who died fighting for the British Empire during the First World War (WWI), and what happened more than a century ago is shocking and abhorrent , British WWI experts told Xinhua in a recent interview.
Dr George Hay, historian with Britain s Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), said: From our perspective we now want to see appropriate commemorations for all of those killed in the war. Fully understanding what happened in the past is the next phase of our work, working with historians on how we can put these oversights right.
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The government of Japan is going to confer the Order of the Rising Sun award announced by the East Asian country s emperor to two Bangladeshis this year for their special role in promoting relations with Japan. );
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The Japanese government announced the names of foreign nationals for this year s award on Thursday, its embassy in Dhaka said in a statement.
One of the nominees, Matiur Rahman is the first president of the Japan-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry or JBCCI. The other, Mohd Abu Sayed is the former country manager of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in Bangladesh.
At committee: Single-use plastics and temporary foreign workers By Kady O Malley. Published on Apr 28, 2021 6:01am The House veterans affairs committee is examining commemorations in the 21st century. (Shawn M. Kent/WikiMedia Commons)
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Multicultural Cumbria was dissapointed by the Commonwealth War Graves Committee s Special Commission report findings that hundreds of thousands of Commonwealth soldiers remain unmemorialised A CUMBRIAN charity has expressed disappointment in the failure to recognise tens of thousands of Commonwealth troops who died fighting for the British Empire in the First World War. A recent report, produced by a special committee formed to review historical cases of non-commemoration, found that 116,000, and potentially 350,000, of those who died while serving the then British Empire during the First World War remained without a memorial. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) issued an apology after the findings were released.