| Kerry publicly supported Hanoi's position to use our POWs as a bargaining chip in negotiations for a peace agreement. |
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| They add that POWs are supposed to be released when hostilities end. |
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| By contrast, the era of American POWs offers photos of Christmas parties and volleyball in the courtyard. |
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| During 1946, up to one fifth of all farm work in Britain was being done by German POWs, and they were also employed on road works and building sites. |
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| The Hindustani POWs in Turkey were coaxed to join this army. |
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| Soon the dazed POWs heard strange voices barking commands in English. |
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| All in all, approximately 13,000 allied POWs and 90,000 Asian laborers perished while working on the railway. |
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| Matters addressed include treatment of POWs and endangerment of civilians. |
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| On the fourth attempt he evaded recapture and, along with a group of Special Forces, took part in operations behind enemy lines and also helped fellow POWs escape. |
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| However, nations vary in their dedication to following these laws, and historically the treatment of POWs has varied greatly. |
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| For the families of those missing it is an important day in which the service and sacrifices of POWs and MIAs are acknowledged and remembered. |
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| The US also shipped 740,000 German POWs as forced labourers to France from where newspaper reports told of very bad treatment. |
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| After the war the POWs were handed over to the Soviets, and after the POWs were transported to the USSR for forced labour. |
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| Their POWs were housed in three camps, according to their potential usefulness to the North Korean army. |
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| This is a list of nations with the highest number of POWs since the start of World War II, listed in descending order. |
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| After that, about 56,000 of the 409,000 POWs died in prisons during the war, accounting for nearly 10 percent of the conflict's fatalities. |
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| Five American POWs forced into slave labor by Japanese companies during World War II testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee today. |
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| It is evident that the 'British' POWs received relatively favorable treatment, both within their Oflags and Stalags and at their workplaces. |
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| The story begins with an account of French POWs during the First Indochina War, then moves on to discussing POWs taken in Laos by the Pathet Lao. |
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| In March 1945, 87 POWs from Island Farm escaped through a tunnel, but all were recaptured. |
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| Under this view, the statements by German POWs that the raid was fully expected are explained as being propaganda. |
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| Most Afrika Korps POWs were transported to the United States and held in Camp Shelby in Mississippi and other POW camps until the end of the war. |
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| The card index led to the identification of about 2 million POWs and the ability to contact their families. |
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| That these statements were used by North Vietnamese on our POWs is a matter of record as well. |
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| This did not mean any change in status for Italian POWs however, since due to the labour shortages in the UK and the USA, they were retained as POWs there. |
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| Sixty per cent of Soviet POWs of the Germans died during the war. |
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| In accordance with the Allied agreement made at the Yalta Conference millions of POWs and civilians were used as forced labour by the Soviet Union. |
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| The operation was stopped by Bosnian authorities after it received information about the massacre against Croat civilians and POWs in the villages of Grabovica and Uzdol. |
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| No direct access to the POWs was provided to the International Red Cross. |
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| Some American POWs claimed the Germans were victims of circumstance and did the best they could, while others accused their captors of brutalities and forced labour. |
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| With the Soviet invasion of Manchuria, in 1945, Japanese soldiers became prisoners in the Soviet Union, where they, just as other Axis POWs, had to work. |
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| A compelling read from beginning to end, this war time fiction novel has every 'feel' of what American POWs truly experienced at the hands of the Pathet Lao. |
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| According to Nepalese veterans of World War II, as many as 3,000 Gurkhas fighting for Britain were taken as POWs by Japanese in Malaysia during the war. |
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| He was left for dead in a hut known by the PoWs as the death house, but fellow prisoners nursed him to health. |
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| Stowed below deck with 1,600 other PoWs, he was forced to exist in a space so cramped they had to lie down to sleep in relays. |
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| The bridge is a part of the Thai-Burma railway, built by Allied PoWs and well as unwilling local Thais, Malays and Burmese, under the instructions of their Japanese masters. |
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| The battle was followed by the summary execution of more than 300 Allied PoWs in the Laha massacre. |
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| I wrote the amount on each ang pow. When Chinese New Year came, just after the Alzheimer's diagnosis, I thought all Ma could do was hand out the ang pows. |
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