Parts of the original railway tracks now under water due to a dam

Unfathomable atrocities and disregard led to these death counts

Injured Japanese abandoned by their superiors, helped by workers despite all

Culture: Death Railway

April 4, 2022 in Thailand ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C

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The Thai-Burma railway, known as “Death Railway” was constructed during 1940-1943 by the Japanese to expand their war efforts to Burma, where the allies attacked Japanese forces from and where from the allies supplied China.
100’000 people said to have died in the construction, where Asians and Europeans were enslaved and worked to death by the Japanese.Read more