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  2. List of Japanese-run internment camps during World War II

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    This is an incomplete list of Japanese-run military prisoner-of-war and civilian internment and concentration camps during World War II. Some of these camps were for prisoners of war (POW) only. Some also held a mixture of POWs and civilian internees, while others held solely civilian internees.

  3. Lists of World War II prisoner-of-war camps - Wikipedia

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    The following list includes prisoner-of-war camps during World War II, both allied and axis: Allied prisoner-of-war camps during World War II List of World War II ...

  4. Sandakan camp - Wikipedia

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    These prisoners were distributed to various lock-up facilities. In July 1942, the Japanese POW camps in Sandakan received about 1,500 Australians, most of them captured from Singapore and brought here for the purpose of building a military airfield for the Japanese; this date is considered to be the beginning of the camp. In 1943, another 770 ...

  5. Japanese occupation of Malaya - Wikipedia

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    Members of the Kempeitai and camp guards were treated as prisoners of war because of their treatment of military and civilians. There were a number of war crimes trials. One held in 1947 found 7 Japanese officers guilty.

  6. Japanese prisoners of war in World War II - Wikipedia

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    Japanese POWs generally adjusted to life in prison camps and few attempted to escape. [67] There were several incidents at POW camps, however. On 25 February 1943, POWs at the Featherston prisoner of war camp in New Zealand staged a strike after being ordered to work. The protest turned violent when the camp's deputy commander shot one of the ...

  7. Batu Lintang camp - Wikipedia

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    Batu Lintang camp (also known as Lintang Barracks and Kuching POW camp) at Kuching, Sarawak on the island of Borneo was a Japanese-run internment camp during the Second World War. It was unusual in that it housed both Allied prisoners of war (POWs) and civilian internees .

  8. List of concentration and internment camps - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of internment and concentration camps, organized by country.In general, a camp or group of camps is designated to the country whose government was responsible for the establishment and/or operation of the camp regardless of the camp's location, but this principle can be, or it can appear to be, departed from in such cases as where a country's borders or name has changed or it ...

  9. Prisoners of war in World War II - Wikipedia

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    Prisoners of war during World War II faced vastly different fates due to the POW conventions adhered to or ignored, depending on the theater of conflict, and the behaviour of their captors. During the war approximately 35 million soldiers surrendered, with many held in the prisoner-of-war camps .