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Slavery camps by Sushi Devils
   A photo letter from a reader
  - His father was a POW -

My Father

Never spoke
Never talked about it

A silence what spoke a thousand words
A remembrance about those years

Only his eyes could tell the pain and the sorrow
About that long forgotten period in
Atjeh and Sumatra
The land that he loved and had hurt him so much

Showa 17
March 28 1942 Blangkedjeren Atjeh camps
Atjeh party (pow forced labour building a road
from Takengon to Blangkedjeran)

The forced march from 130km in three days
through the Atjeh jungle
Belawan Medan Camps
Gloegoer camp Medan
Pakan Baroe camps 1-14 Death railroad
Changi Prison Singapore

He never spoke
Never told me about the beatings and the tortures

About the punishment for the whole camp in
Blangkedjeren for escaping the Japanese army

About the hunger, the pain, the exhaustion

Never told me about the Changi prison,
the station to Birma, Thailand or Japanese mines

Freedom 29-august 1945


My father
Knew all the names of his Japanese guards
and never spoke about it
So I have to speak out loud for my father

There in the jungle of Sumatra

Lets never forget to
Love, sharing, care

Never again war
He never spoke about it

My father

Lets use 2010 to change our world with LOVE

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Childrens' hard labor camp.
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子供たちも収容され強制労働させられた。
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来週、その生き残りの人の話が聞ける。
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日本軍が侵略した各地で子供も女性も民間人も虐殺された。
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そして地獄の収容所も作られた。
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多くの人が殺された。
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「 朝鮮、中国、アメリカ他外国の人間は、人間じゃなくて
 獣と同じって教育されたからねえ 」
と平然と話す笑顔のおばあちゃんたち。
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POWs who were not treated like POWs.
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Japan's prime ministers, governors, mayors etc
these days are still the grandsons
of war criminals and fascists.
They are often extremely rich as the families
made fortunes from war businesses.
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戦犯やファシストの孫たちが今でも日本の政治を。
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by fighter_eiji | 2009-12-28 09:19 | English
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