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From: Andi Wolos & Bob Necci
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Re: Bridge On The River Kwai
Date: August 16, 2000
NEWS WIRE REPORTS - Thailand remembers war dead
About 450 Australian, British and Dutch visitors paid their respects Tuesday at a World War II cemetery near the bridge on the River Kwai, part of the infamous ``Death Railway'' that the Japanese army built using Allied prisoners of war and Asian slave labor.
About 50 Japanese tourists also visited the cemetery, to learn what Japanese textbooks do not tell them -- the unspeakable record of the Japanese Imperial army during its brutal occupation of Southeast Asia.
Some 13,000 Allied prisoners of war and up to 100,000 Asian slave laborers died of disease, starvation and torture while building the 256-mile ``Death Railway'' supply line between Bangkok and Rangoon.
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