|
|
Article: ASIA: Full story of "Death Railway" yet to be told
- Article from:
- AAP General News (Australia)
- Article date:
- March 20, 2003
CopyrightProvided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
|
00-00-0000
ASIA: Full story of "Death Railway" yet to be told
REPEAT
By James Shrimpton
KANCHANABURI, Thailand, AAP - Little is still known of the full
story of the Thailand-Burma
"Death Railway" of World War II, according to its chief researcher,
Rod Beattie.
Many official reports about it "lie largely unread in the archives"
around the world, he said.
And collecting many survivors' stories was becoming urgent with
the passage of time.
During his eight years in Kanchanaburi, Mr Beattie, a Queenslander,
has spent long
periods locating and searching sections of the railway abandoned after
1947.
He was also the driving force ...