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01/07/2005:

"Revealed: the British Army’s 20 years of secret racism"

THE Army kept secret records of all recruits with "Asiatic or Negroid features" for almost two decades as part of a policy of "quota restrictions" on non-whites, according to official files.

Papers released to the National Archives under the Freedom of Information Act show Army medical officers were instructed to make a note of all new recruits with non-North European facial features between 1957 and 1977.

Full Article : theherald.co.uk