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Remembering Kohima - Dr Robert Lyman MBE

Remembering Kohima by Dr Robert Lyman MBE

 

"Why does Kohima still retain its power nearly eighty years on? For me Kohima doesn’t just represent a battle, but an idea. It was the idea that brute power and arrogance in an invading army could be defeated. It was the idea that indigenous people and defending army, much of which was Indian, could join together in the common cause of defending their homeland. It was the idea that a broken and defeated army only two years before could be rebuilt and vanquish their enemy so comprehensively that they called their retreat ‘the road of bones.’ "

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