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

Re: Russian Held POW Remains Found

Date: October 15, 1998

Russia - whose Bolsheviks redefined and refined labor camps to create kontsentratsionnye lageri (concentration camps), upon which Hitler based his system of camps, has finally opened one up to investigators with a surprising result.

The Khalaza-2, Far East kontsentratsionnye lageri was the site of a Joint Japanese-Russian excavation beginning in early October. The remains of 13 Japanese POWs who were interned from 1945 to 1948 were recovered.

Japan is working to recover the estimated 60,000 POWs who died in captivity and were buried on former Soviet soil. To date, 113 burial sites have been identified with 1,100 sets of remains repatriated to Japan. The six year recovery project is being funded by Japan.

Hostilities between the two have been historic... especially in this century with the 1904 Russo-Japanese War which was a part of the 1905 Russian uprising or first Russian Revolution, and later with World War II. The two nations never signed a peace agreement after World War II.