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Memorial to Allied POWs. Following the Allied defeat of Imperial Japan, charges were brought against nine employees of Nippon Mining Company (the parent company of Taiwan Kōgyō) for cruelty and mistreatment of POWs at Kinkaseki. On May 28, 1947, eight of the nine were found guilty by the British War Crime Court Number Five in Hong Kong. [7]
The POWs were from allied nations, including the United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the United States. [4] The Taiwan POW Memorial Park now stands in memory of the POWs that died in the harsh mining conditions.
ALL-JAPAN POW CAMP GROUP HISTORY; The story of the Taiwan POWs; About Prisoners of Santo Tomas; Tjideng Camp ; Personal Memoirs of Signalman Clifford Reddish : a Prisoner held by the Japanese. POW Research Network Japan; Map of WWII Japanese POW camps; Okinoyama – The Story of a Coal Mine, John Oxley Library blog, State Library of Queensland ...
Two years later, the building was made the home of the Taipei 228 Memorial Museum and the park was rededicated as 228 Peace Memorial Park. [ 3 ] [ 7 ] The 228 Memorial Monument was designed by Taiwanese architect Cheng Tzu-tsai , [ 8 ] who was convicted of attempted murder in 1971 following a 1970 assassination attempt on Chiang Ching-kuo . [ 9 ]
Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen renewed her pledge to strengthen Taiwan's self-defense on Wednesday as she visited a war memorial from the last time Taiwan and China battled. Tsai, visiting the ...
Taiwan will withdraw the military honour guards at the memorial hall for former leader Chiang Kai-shek as part of ongoing efforts to end the "veneration of authoritarianism", the culture ministry ...
UDP Battalion 3 at Camp Schwab, Okinawa. UDP Battalion 3 is attached for six months of the year, the other six months it supports Marine Rotational Force Darwin (MRF-D) and I MEF. While deployed UDP units are attached to 4th Marine Regiment. 4th Marine Regiment and its attached units are INDOPACOM assigned forces in support of regional OPLANs ...
Inscription of 228 Peace Memorial Monument： After World War II , Taiwan from Japan ruled that liberal democracy. Who would have expected the Chinese regime received Taiwan , Chen Yi ranks corruption and incompetence, privilege run amok, coupled with postwar economic system broken, high prices, resulting in Taiwanese people lives difficult ...