Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/11/02
By William Yen
Taipei, Nov. 2 (CNA) An annual service to remember the suffering of over 4,350 Allied
Photo courtesy of the Australian Office in Taipei
prisoners who were imprisoned in Taiwan by the Japanese government during World War II will be held at Jinguashi in New Taipei City on Nov. 12, according to the event’s organizers.
The event, which will be held at the site of the former Kinkaseki prisoner of war camp, is co-hosted by the Australian Office in Taipei with the Taiwan POW Camps Memorial Society.
According to the memorial society’s website, more than 1,100 British Commonwealth and Allied prisoners of war were kept captive at Kinkaseki camp between December 1942 and March 1945.
In total, Taiwan had 14 prisoner of war camps similar to Kinkaseki during the war. Conditions were inhumane, according to evidence gathered by the Society. More than 10 percent of the POWs died due mostly to disease, starvation and beatings, its website pointed out. [FULL STORY]