Reply #25: `Hell Camp' remembered [View All]

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From November 1942 until the surrender of Imperial Japanese Army in Taiwan in August 1945, the township was home to the infamous Kinkaseki "Hell Camp." Over 1,000 British Commonwealth and Allied troops were interned in the camp at one time or another and all were forced to work in the local copper mines.

The POWs were subject to inhuman treatment, denied the most basic of medical facilities, flogged by their jailers -- some of who were Taiwanese. And many prisoners were, quite literally, worked to death.

Following the surrender of Japan, the surviving POWs were shipped home and the camp's wooden buildings were dismantled piecemeal by the local populace. The only evidence of the once notorious POW camp to survive the looting were several concrete foundations, a half-dozen wall supports and a solitary concrete gatepost.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2005/05/01/2003252765

Posted cause almost never see a story of the true history of Formosa. Japan ruled Formosa before the KMT invasion in 1949. Japan rules Taiwan from about 1910. You have to go back about 300 years before you can find some kind of Bastard Chinese Cave Man rule in Formosa.