Burma / Myanmar: Tamils at work on the construction of the Burma Railway (Thai-Burma Railway) which ran 415 km (258 miles) between Ban Pong, Thailand and Thanbyuzayat, Burma. Photo from Leiden University Library (CC BY License). Approximately 180,000 Asian civilian slave labourers and 60,000 Allied POWs were held at Thanbyuzayat by the Japanese and forced to build the Burma Railway (nicknamed by inmates the 'Death Railway') between Bangkok, Thailand, and Rangoon (Yangon), Burma. Of these, around 90,000 Asian civilian laborers and 12,399 Allied POWs died as a result of starvation, exhaust
Burma / Myanmar: Tamils at work on the construction of the Burma Railway (Thai-Burma Railway) which ran 415 km (258 miles) between Ban Pong, Thailand and Thanbyuzayat, Burma. Photo from Leiden University Library (CC BY License). Approximately 180,000 Asian civilian slave labourers and 60,000 Allied POWs were held at Thanbyuzayat by the Japanese and forced to build the Burma Railway (nicknamed by inmates the 'Death Railway') between Bangkok, Thailand, and Rangoon (Yangon), Burma. Of these, around 90,000 Asian civilian laborers and 12,399 Allied POWs died as a result of starvation, exhaustion, executions and disease.
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