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War Prisoner Of War
The prisoners of war were not treated in accordance with the international agreements.
They were complaining about starvation and malnutrition and there were some Japanese who were claiming that the Japanese Army had tried to do their best to service the foods to the Prisoners of War while they were in the camp. What is it like to be a prisoner of war? When you are a Prisoner of War you have to do everything that you are told to do. Often times the Prisoners of War were treated poorly by their captors that were in the poorly. They were treated like this for several years. As the years passed on, year after year the people that were working the camp had limited conversations with the other prisoners that were in the camp. Sometimes Prisoners

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