Since the 2005 celebrations, many of the URLs mentionned on the website for that date have been archived by their creators. That is to say that those particular pages are now -- no longer avilable. Sorry for that ...
Civilian Internees
During the same period, some 200,000 civilians were being sent into internment camps (called Civil Assembly Centres by the Japanese) all over SE Asia. Although they were not subjected to the slave labour regime endured by many servicemen, the mortality rate was much higher than suffered in German Internment camps.
Source: ABCIFER
Although there were over 300 camps situated all over SE Asia, the main camps were situated in
Hong Kong Stanley
Shanghai Area Pootung, Chapei, Lunwha, Ash Camp Yu Yuen Road, Lincoln Avenue, Haiphong Road, Great Western Road, Bridge House (senior civilians and members of Shanghai police)
Upriver from Shanghai Yangchow A, Yangchow B, Yangchow C (Yangchow A and B were closed shortly after the repatriation of US diplomatic staff, exchanged for Japanese internees)
Yangchow C held mostly British internees, 108 children and 640 Adults, incl. 40 Belgians.
Shantung Province Int. Weihsien
Singapore until 1943, Changi Jail, then Sime
Road Camp
Canadians held in a Chinese internment camp 60 years ago are back this week, to mark the anniversary of Japan's Imperial Army surrendering to Allied forces.
More than 30 Canadians were among those interned by the Japanese at a camp in China during the Second World War.
They were missionaries, doctors and teachers stranded in China after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbour.
They were subsequently rounded up by the Japanese and sent to one of the largest concentration camps in Asia -- Weishien.
Between 1942 and 1945, more than 2,000 men, women and children were imprisoned there.
Montrealer Ted Pearson was only ten years old when he was interned.
Returning to the site now, to celebrate 60 years since his liberation, he still remembers the dirty, cramped quarters and the brutality of his captors.
Even though his mother forgave the Japanese before she died, Pearson has never come to terms with his experience.
"I don't think I have ever forgiven them," he told CTV News.
Vancouverite David Birch, just a year older than Pearson, is also haunted not only by his memories, but also the lingering physical effects.
"I suffered badly from malnutrition," he said, recalling meals of water mixed with stale bread. "My bones were pretty brittle by the end of the war. Even now, I have arthritis."
The site in east China's Weifang city where the camp once stood is now home to a school and a hospital.
