Burma-Thailand Death Railway in World War 2

The railway was built from Kanchanaburi, Thailand to Burma to be a path to send supplies for the Japanese. More than 280,000 prisoners were forced to build the railway 10 days in a row and had only one day off. Obviously, around ten thousand people didn't survive. It was one of the most cruel, terrifying labour camps in the world history.

Cruelty and callousness were able to be observed in this labor camp. People who were sick and felt too tired to work were all beaten up or being torture to death. Workers were also starving and there was none of medical care. In the records, there were about 90,000 deaths but in reality, the death rate could go up to 150,000 as no records of them were kept.

Not only the prisoners were being tortured. The officers who were too kind to obey the order (to beat people who didn't work so hard) would be captured and bodily tortured in the prison for a month. Many of Japanese soldiers were left out and were told that their lives meant nothing, if they died, there'd be plenty to be replaced.

However, the construction took around 8 months. With the terrifying occurrence during the building of the railway made people call this the Death Railway. Therefore, some part of the railroad still left for us to see in Kanchanaburi and some in Burma. It was one of the terrible things happened in our history due to the inhumanity of 'humans'

by: Pupp