Another history lesson! Back during WWII when Japan occupied most of southeast Asia they decided to build a connecting rail line between Thailand and Burma to provide a better supply route to their troops during the war. Since Japan took over the region they had over 60,000 POWs from Australia, Great Britain, Holland, and the US to use as slave labor to complete this very ambitious project in a rediculously short period of time. They also hired around 200,000 (estimated) Asian laborers (from all over Asia) who were promised good pay and good working conditions, neither of which they got. As a matter of fact, it is estimated that around 90,000 of those asians died in the process, while just over 12,000 of the POWs died, from malnutrition, disease, accidents, and beatings. All these workers were
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