'Pervasive racism' meant UK's Black and Asian troops not commemorated: report


  • World
  • Thursday, 22 Apr 2021

FILE PHOTO: The tombs of the Uknown Soldiers are seen prior to the burial of four WWI Canadian soldiers at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's (CWGC) Loos British Cemetery outside Loos-en-Gohelle, France, August 23, 2018. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann

LONDON (Reuters) - As many as 350,000 Black and Asian service personnel who died fighting for Britain might not have been properly commemorated because of "pervasive racism", a report concluded on Thursday.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) issued an apology after an inquiry it commissioned found hundreds of thousands of mostly African and Middle Eastern casualties from World War One were not commemorated by name, or at all.

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