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The Thai Burma Railway was built by the Empire of Japan in 1943, to support its forces in the Burma campaign of World War II. Forced labor was used in its construction. About 180,000 Asian civilian laborers and 60,000 Allied prisoners of war worked on the railway. Over 90,000 civilians and 12,399 Allied POW's died as a direct result of the project.
He was the doctor for the prisoners of war working for the Japanese on a section of the Thai-Burma railway.
He was the senior medical officer for the Australian prisoners of war working on a section of the Thai-Burma railway for the Japanese.
Most died from disease, injuries and malnutrition; the greatest number died on the Thai-Burma railway and its aftermath.
He was medical officer for the prisoner of war troops worked on a section of the Thai-Burma railway, and played a strong role looking after their welfare, often taking beating from the Japanese guards in the process.
Colonel Sir Earnest Edward "Weary" Dunlop was a surgeon who was captured in Singapore in 1942 and had a well respected role in looking after his fellow prisoners of war in the Japanese building of the Thai-Burma railway.
China, Japan, Burma and India
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We call ourselves 'Thais' or 'Thai people', but for some people who live in Bangkok may call ourselves as 'Bangkokians'
Chan ben kon thai. ฉันเป็นคนไทย (I am thai) Chan = I Ben = is/ am/ are Kon = People