Filipinos suffer under Japanese
12th March 1942: Law enforcement by the occupying forces on the Philippines is brutal and random
It was not just Prisoners of War who suffered under the Japanese. The so called ‘Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere’ - which the Japanese sought to use as an excuse for their military expansion - meant very little in practical terms to the countries which were occupied. This was just a front fo…
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