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UK Apologises as Commonwealth Report Finds Racism Against Indian Soldiers Killed in WWI


UK Apologises as Commonwealth Report Finds Racism Against Indian Soldiers Killed in WWI
The report found that an 45,000-54,000 casualties, predominantly Indian, East African, West African, Egyptian and Somali personnel, were commemorated unequally.
Soldiers in World War I. Photo: Wikipedia Commons
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London: Entrenched prejudices, preconceptions and pervasive racism of contemporary imperial attitudes meant that nearly 50,000 Indian soldiers who died fighting for the British Empire during the World War I were not commemorated the same way as other martyrs, finds a new review released on Thursday.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), which commemorates the 1.7 million Commonwealth servicemen and women who died during the two World Wars, had created a Special Committee in late-2019 to investigate potential gaps in the commemoration of those who died during and after the World War I. ....

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This war graves row shows racism claims are given more credence than real history


This war graves row shows racism claims are given more credence than real history
The report on colonial war graves was well-produced, but its potential is undermined by those who claim to represent ethnic minorities
23 April 2021 • 9:30pm
At six o’clock on Thursday morning, BBC radio news led with characteristic words: “Pervasive racism has been blamed…” That day’s sinner was the Imperial War Graves Commission after the First World War. It had been guilty of a “failure to commemorate” some tens of thousands of the non-white soldiers and auxiliaries who had died for the British Empire in the same way as it commemorated white ones. A report by a special committee of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (the same body, renamed in 1960), published later that morning, would make a formal apology. ....

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