In Reply to: The Great Raid posted by jamesgarvin on June 20, 2006 at 11:25:55:
From Wikipedia:
"The Bataan Death March was a war crime involving the forcible transfer of prisoners of war, with wide-ranging abuse and high fatalities, by Japanese forces in the Philippines, in 1942, after the Battle of the Philippines (1941-42), during World War II. In Japanese, it is known as Batān Shi no Kōshin meaning the same. 10,000 of the 75,000 POWs died."Your post makes the deaths of ten thousand unarmed prisoners in one week sound like little more than an unavoidable cultural faux pas by the Japanese. I certainly hope that's not your view.
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Follow Ups
- Perhaps you need more than "some" context - DWPCAPACHE 15:33:11 06/22/06 (3)
- Re: Perhaps you need more than "some" context - jamesgarvin 16:01:19 06/22/06 (2)
- First step to get out of a hole: - DWPCAPACHE 16:50:52 06/22/06 (1)
- is to read what is written - jamesgarvin 18:01:34 06/22/06 (0)