Japanese cruelties in Indonesia

25th August 1943: Both Prisones of War and native Indonesians suffer at the hands of the vindictive Japanese occupiers

‘A Beating Up for Failing to 'Number' in Japanese’. Ronald Searle was a POW in Singapore and also suffered under the Japanese.

For prisoners of war of the Japanese, there was little respite from some very harsh living conditions. The same stories of starvation and malnutrition and enforced hard labour come from prisoners held all over the Far East.

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