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"en.20041213.9.1-043"2
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"Mr President, between 25 September and 19 October 1915, 61 000 British troops were killed, captured or wounded at the Battle of Loos. At least 8 000 died, their bodies lost in the blood-soaked quagmire of the battlefield, a field which became a mass grave. That field is in Auchy-les-Mines in northern France. A few weeks ago that field was dug up by bulldozers to create a municipal rubbish dump. Since the bulldozers moved in it has become impossible to move around the field without treading on fragments of human bones and remains, shreds of military uniform and military equipment. The bodies of these thousands of brave men are being reburied underneath household and building waste.
I call on you, Mr President, to write to the authorities in Auchy-les-Mines to express our strongest condemnation of the desecration of the graves of these soldiers – men who gave their lives selflessly to preserve our freedom and democracy in this continent. It is disgraceful that their resting place has been treated in this way."@en1
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