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Commonwealth panel acknowledges racism in honoring war dead

by Danica Kirka
| April 22, 2021 4:27 AM

LONDON (AP) — The British government and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission have apologized after an investigation found that at least 161,000 mostly Africans and Indians who died fighting for the British Empire during World War I weren’t properly honored due to “pervasive racism.”

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