Australian POW's
...vation and water contamination. Chinese casualties at the hands of the Japanese and captives far outweighed Australians. In the city of Nanking alone, an estimated 300,000 Chinese were murdered by Japanese soldiers, including prisoners of war. The Chinese suffering at the hands of the Japanese also far outweighed that of Australian prisoners of war. Women were forced into sex slavery and raped, while men and young boys were brutally burnt or decapitated. Australian prisoners of war, though they suffered from harsh conditions, were merely forced into slave labour. Both Chinese and Australian victims of the Japanese however, suffered from enormous emotional frailty and stress. Australian prisoners of war suffered greatly at the hands of the Japanese. Most Australian prisoners who were captured by the Japanese were forced to work as slave labourers. Those who were not too sick to work were sent to factories, mines, and slave labour camps in Japanese occupied areas in China, Korea, and Japan. After the Battle of New Britain, the Japanese seemed to construct a policy, which did not allow them to keep prisoners for the remainder of the campaign in New Guinea. Those who were captured were promptly executed, as the Japanese already found themselves with overpopulated prison camps and more prisoners than they could han...