In the early days of World War II, the Japanese army invaded Burma (now ... as the Burma Death Railway is far grislier than any movie could make it, and the ways that the prisoners who built ...

The remains of 106 Tamil laborers who toiled on the Thailand-Burma Railway under Japanese occupation have been cremated in a ...

The railway in question was to run from Ban Pong in Thailand to Thanbyuzayat in Burma (now Myanmar), for ... Asian civilians and 60,000 Allied prisoners-of-war. Mr Jennings found himself in ...

also known as the Burma Railway, was built during World War II by the Japanese. It stands as a reminder of the sacrifices and hardships endured by Allied prisoners of war and Asian laborers.

The immense suffering endured by Allied prisoners of war (POWs) and Asian labourers (known as Rōmusha[*] in Japanese), forced to build the 415 km railway between Thailand and Burma (now Myanmar ...

the immense suffering endured by Allied prisoners of war (POWs) and Asian forced labourers, also known as "Romusha” in Japanese, during the construction of the 415km Thailand-Burma Railway, as ...

His uncle, whose name he shares, had died during World War One at the ... was sent to work on the Burma railway, often called the Death Railway. About 12,000 Allied prisoners died during the ...

For the defeated Commonwealth soldiers who had battled to save it, 80,000 of them immediately became prisoners of war. The loss came ... the infamous Thai-Burma Railway and for notable landmarks ...