Remembering Tamil victims of the 'death railway' 80 years on
The remains of 106 Tamil laborers who, under Japanese occupation, were forced to work on the "death railway" between Thailand ...
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Kanchanaburi: posthumous funeral rite for 'Death Railway' victims
To honour them, a memorial dedicated to the workers was inaugurated on 3 June 2023 in Kanchanaburi, Thailand. P Chandrasekaran, chairman of the Death Railway Interest Group (DRIG) Malaysia ...
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What’s Thailand’s Death Railway all about?
The Death Railway in Thailand, also known as the Burma Railway ... The train then goes to Nam Tok via Kanchanaburi. The journey to Kanchanaburi, which takes around three hours, costs only 100 ...
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Sikhs working on the Death Railway: Blood, toil, tears and sweat
The Death Railway line from Ban Pong in Siam (Thailand) to Ye in Burma (Myanmar) was built over 76 years ago by Prisoners of War (PoW) and slave labourers. Besides the Tamils, Chinese and Malays ...
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Remembering Tamil 'death railway' victims 80 years later
The project, later called the "death railway," became infamous ... Thailand honor the romusha who died. The Thai government, focused on promoting Kanchanaburi as a tourism hub, made famous by ...