Japanese Prisoners of War Camps - Chapter 29

As the Japanese captured the American war hero's, the Geneva convention worked hard to protect their rights. The Japanese were just had too tough of skin to even react to the Geneva convention. The Japanese broke the Americans spirits by showing executions of the Americans fellow peers. The Japanese would keep the American POWs in cages and take a prisoner out and have him kneel in front of the cage. Then the Japanese officer would take a sword out and chop the head off of the victim. The Japanese would take the American's belongings and keep them for themselves. They would also line the prisoners up in a line and shot them one at a time. The Japanese starved the prisoners and eventually took prisoners on a 100 mile march that would kill thousands of prisoners, called the Bataan Death March. The only ones lucky enough to be "spared" from the march was the sick who were expected to die within the next couple of hours.