‘Pervasive racism’ blamed for failure to commemorate black and Asian troops
Thousands of black and Asian British Empire troops were not commemorated properly, says a report. …
In response, commission employee Arthur Browne said: “In perhaps two or three hundred years’ time, when the native population had reached a higher stage of civilisation, they might then be glad to see that headstones had been erected on the native graves and that the native soldiers had received precisely the same treatment as their white comrades.”
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