The Bataan Death March
Sunday, October 26, 2008

The Bataan Death March occurred in the Philippines in 1942. 75,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war were forcibly marched for 60 miles.

During the one-week long march, the army of the Empire of Japan physically abused and murdered many of the prisoners as like cattle.

Beheadings, cut throats and casual shootings were the more common and kind actions — compared to bayonet stabbings, rapes, disembowelment, numerous rifle butt beatings and a willful denial to allow the prisoners food or water. Falling down, not able to continue moving was equivalent to a death sentence, as was any degree of objection or expression of displeasure.

According to a study published after the war, more than 18,000 people died because of the Japanese brutality.

The Bataan Death March was later accounted as a Japanese war crime.

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