Burma / Myanmar: Indian and Burmese slave labourers liberated from the Japanese labour camp at Thanbyuzayat wade out to a British landing craft from Setse Beach, July 1945

Approximately 180,000 Asian civilian slave labourers and 60,000 Allied POWs were held at Thanbyuzayat by the Japanese and forced to build the 415 km (258 mi) Burma Railway (nicknamed by inmates the 'Death Railway') between Bangkok, Thailand, and Rangoon, 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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K Higgins

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