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Commemorating long and forgotten battles
Morung Express | Sujit Chakraborty (IANS) | June 27:
Seventy years ago, the battles of Imphal and Kohima halted the Japanese advance into India at the height of World War-II, claiming tens of thousands of lives on both sides. A three-month-long commemoration of the event, to remember the almost forgotten sacrifice of the fallen, will conclude Saturday in Imphal in the presence of envoys from the US, Australia and Japan, among others.
"The battles of Kohima and Imphal (March 8, 1944-July 3, 1944), which marked the climax of the Japanese forces' advance into India, claimed the lives of 30,000 Japanese, left 23,000 injured and 600 were captured," writer and editor Rajkumar Kalyanjit Singh told IANS, adding: "The Allies suffered 17,500 casualties."
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