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The name Burma conjures up images of sizzling nyama choma, with generous portions of steaming ugali, peppered with hot chilli.
This name, however, has history that goes beyond Jogoo Road in Nairobi. It goes back to a place that is today known as Myanmar, a killing field where over 2,000, Rohingya civilians have been killed and about a million people displaced.
To a few remaining Kenyans of the fast disappearing generation that fought the Second World War in 1940s, Burma was a valley of death where some 90,000 Africans dodged Japanese bullets only to die from mosquito bites as they defended India from Japan on behalf of Britain.
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