Terror of the Kempeitai

10th December 1944: Security tightens in the POW camps in Thailand - and prisoners suffer under the savage brutality of the Japanese

Kanchanaburi, Thailand. 1944. Prisoners of war, in their quarters in an open-sided attap hut in the POW camp (commonly called Kanburi by the Australians). All seem aware that their photograph is being taken secretly, at risk to themselves and the photographer if film or camera were discovered by the Japanese. Many prisoners were brought here from Burma …