Attraction

In 1942 the Japanese army invaded Myanmar, and the Thai border province of Kanchanaburi also came under their control. The Japanese hastily built a railway to supply their troops. More than 240,000 prisoners and labourers worked on the line; over 100,000 people died. Most were Asian forced labourers and prisoners of war from Britain, Australia, the Netherlands, the USA and Canada. The construction was later recognized as a war crime. After World War II the remains of the dead were moved to the military cemetery in Kanchanaburi and two other cemeteries in the region.