Death Railway

From the river you can observe a part of the Death Railway track. I cite Hugh V. Clarke, Australian former POW in his book "A Life For Every Sleeper; A Pictorial Record of die Burma- Thailand Railway" (Allen & Unwin. Australia, 1986): One of the most extraordinary engineering achievements of World War II was the construction of the Burma-Thailand railway. With unbelievably primitive tools for such a project and a total disregard for human life and suffering, the Japanese built a railway 415 kilometers long through one of the most rugged and pestilence-ridden areas in the world in the incredibly short span of 12 months. The cost was a life for every sleeper laid over its most difficult terrain. Dead were 13,000 British, Australian, American and Dutch prisoners of war and an estimated 70,000 Asian civilian labourers ....The total workforce to be employed on the railway included 51,000 British, Dutch and American prisoners of war, 9,500 Australians and over 270,000 conscripted Asian labourers from China, Burma, Thailand, Malaya and Singapore.

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