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The Sandakan Death Marches

The Japanese forced thousands of POWs to march for hundreds of kilometers. Out of more than two thousand POWs, only six survived.

13 Agustus 2023
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The grave of the prisoners of war in the Sandakan Camp. (Repro of Laden, Fevered, Starved: The POW's of Sandakan North Borneo, 1945).

LYNETTE Ramsay Silver still remembers a woman who approached her in 1993 asking her to write about the tragic incident in Malaysia’s Sandakan, a port city on the east coast of North Kalimantan, known as the Sandakan Death Marches. The woman wanted someone to document the dreadful tragedy, which claimed thousands of lives, including her brother's.

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