We demand a special arrangement for compensation or lump-sum, one-time pension to all World War II Victoria Cross holders and other veterans, or their widows, and those who were made redundant arbitrarily after the East Asian (Malayan and Indonesian war of the 1960s) and Falkland wars, including the Hawaii incident of 1986. Most of these Gurkahs have been receiving either nothing for all these decades while a small number receive welfare pension that average a princely sum of £25. The total number of such Gurkhas to be compensated will be about 5,000.
