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Lee Hak Rae, the Korean Connection and “Japanese” War Crimes on the Burma-Thai Railway

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Aiko Utsumi ,
Ikemi Nakamura  and
Gil Heong-yun
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Lee Hak Rae was a Korean youth who went to work at age fifteen supervising prisoners of the Japanese mobilized to build the Burma-Thailand Railway. Hintok, where he served, was the most dangerous place along the railway. Prisoners called it “Hellfire Pass.” Of approximately 700 Australians, 100 died there, mainly from overwork and diseases such as dysentery and cholera. Lee was indicted by an Australian court in Singapore on September 25, 1946, but on October 24 his case was dismissed. In Hong Kong, en route to Japan, he was again forced to return to Singapore. On March 10, 1947 he was indicted for a second time.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 8 , August 2007 , e21
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