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From: Andi Wolos & Bob Necci
(POW-MIA InterNetwork)

Re: Ex-POWs Continue To Pressure Japan

Date: November 13, 1998

In an ongoing battle for recognition, compensation and an apology, the group of former British POWs, lead by the unwavering Arthur Titherington, is winging its way back to Japan.

The Japanese Labour Camp Survivors' Association (JLCSA) and Bristish Internees Association, members of which survived the unbelievably horrific sadism of Japan during WW II, has been embroiled in a legal battle for years. This week the surviving men return to Tokyo for the court's decision, due on 26th November.

Seven Allied Ex-POWs from the US, Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand will represent 20,000 POWs and civilian internees who suffered in what has come to be called The Auschwitz of the East.

Should the court rule in favor of the survivors, each would receive US$22,000, which would force the government of Japan to pay a total of $440 million dollars. A small price to pay for the unimaginable pain and suffering it heaped upon humanity.