Medical Officers on the Infamous Burma Railway : Frontline Books : 9781399095624 : 1399095625 : 30 Jan 2022 : In 1944, a compilation of medical reports from the main prisoner of war work camps along the infamous Thailand-Burma railway was submitted to General Arimura Tsunemichi, commander of the Japanese Prisoner of War Administration. The authors stated that the reports were neither complaints nor protests, but merely statements of fact. The prisoners received only one reply ? that all copies of the documents must be destroyed. As one officer later recalled, ?Of course, this was not done' and copies of these reports survived, stored away in dusty files, for future generations to learn the truth.Work on the railway began in June 1942, the Japanese using mainly forced civilian labor as well as some 12,000 British and Commonwealth PoWs. Such is well-known. So are the stories of ill-treatment and brutality, many of which have been published. The vast majority of these accounts, however, w