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Australians flock to Thailand to honour POWs who died on Thai-Burma railway

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After being captured by Japan’s army during World War II, around 13,000 Australian prisoners of war were forced to work on what was then called the Thai-Burma railway. More than 2,800 of those POWs - mostly young men who volunteered to serve overseas - died in captivity of disease and mistreatment. An Anzac Day ceremony is held in Thailand each year at a section of the railway, now known as Hellfire Pass.
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