In the Malayn campaign Australians managed to hold up the Japanese advance to great effect. The Australians lost over 2000 soldiers, either killed, missing or presumed dead. The situation at this stage was virtually hopeless. The various Allies failed to provide air cover, many of the British Indian soldiers were poorly motivated, and the whole affair which had the potential to become a military disaster, eventually did.
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On February 15th 1942, the British commander of the Allied forces in Southeast Asia, surrended to the Japanese unconditionally. In the sudden and unexpected silence of the surrender, the Australian troops had absolutely no idea of how they would be treated by the Japanese victors who disliked the Australians for their involvement in the ongoing war. The Australian soldiers soon learned and realised that they had to bow to their captors or run the risk of being bashed or even killed, so it seems that they were helpless in this situation at hand. The Japanese code demanded that a soldier commit suicide rather than having to endure the disgrace and torment of being held in captivity by the Japanese. The Allies however, had different viewpoints. Having fought to the best of their ability and being forced to surrender, the only option available to them was to wait and see what the next day would bring - while planning to escape or rebel, or keep hassling the Japanese to some extent if they possibly could.
Japanese officials suddenly found themselves in control over around one hundred thousand British, Indian, Dutch and Australian Troops who had to be fed and contained in a way that would allow them to survive. They did not want to divert large numbers of troops from their own army to look after the soldiers. Escape was essentially out of the question. So the Japanese decided to corral the troops on the Changi Peninsula of Singapore, cream off all the senior soldiers and take them away to Manchuria - but decided that they should leave the military structure intact so that the Allies would ultimately be responsible for organising themselves.
In regards to World War II and people who were taken as prisoners of the war, the answer is yes, but only for a few. A prisoner of war, or POW, is a term for a member of the armed forces who is captured and confined during war. ... During times of war, enemies take men as prisoners. During World War II, both the axis and the allies took prisoners. ... Obviously, prisoners of war were malnourished. ...
Unfortunately, this was a harsh reality for many soldiers in World War Two, more specifically the prisoners of war in Japan. The treatment of prisoners of war in the pacific was extremely unfair and unjust. By definition, a prisoner of war is someone who is engaged in combat, and captured by the armed forces of the enemy. ... This was because of the extreme cruelty and inhumane treatment that their prisoners of war received. ... Prisoners of war were not animals meant to be locked up and abused. ...
For example, a discussion about the "Prisoner's Dilemma- would be incomplete without taking into account the theories established by Axelrod in The Evolution of Cooperation. The prisoner's dilemma is a modeling tool that helps us to understand the behavior of entities in various situations and scenarios. ... Two prisoners, Chip and Dale, are held for trial. ... In addition, the R-value has to be greater than the average of T and S in order for the conditions that define a "Prisoner's Dilemma- to be met. ... (pg.136) Since the Prisoner's Dilemma is so common in everyt...
Prisoner of Conscience Individual political rights have been a concern for a very long time. ... Sustained attempts to construct comprehensive international laws and institutions dealing with human rights were made for the first time after World War II. ... The types of people that have stood up for what they believe, and because of this, have been put in jail are called prisoners of conscience. Someone that can be classified as a prisoner of conscience would be Muhammad Ali....
Prisoner of Conscience Individual political rights have been a concern for a very long time. ... Sustained attempts to construct comprehensive international laws and institutions dealing with human rights were made for the first time after World War II. ... The types of people that have stood up for what they believe, and because of this, have been put in jail are called prisoners of conscience. Someone that can be classified as a prisoner of conscience would be Muhammad Ali. ...
The Vietnam War, the nations longest war, cost fifty-eight thousand American lives. Only the Civil War and the two World Wars were deadlier ("Vietnam War-). ... In January 1973, the United States and North Vietnam signed the Paris Peace Agreement, which provided for the withdrawal of all remaining U.S. forces from Vietnam, the return of U.S. prisoners of war, and a cease-fire ("Vietnam War-). ... There were 587 U.S. prisoners of war and a current unofficial estimate puts the number of personnel still unaccounted for in the neighborhood of 2500 (Scott). The Vietnam War was one of the best wars ...
The Vietnam War was a war we could not win and could not afford to lose. ... A war when no man wins and every man looses. A war of tricks and trades. ... Northern Vietnam agrees to return all Prisoners of war. ... It called for the release of all U.S. prisoners, and withdrawal of U.S. forces. ...
Many of the wars start off as good wars such as World War II in which the Allies tried to stop Hitler from destroying the Jewish population of Europe. ... The Civil War had to be the worst war that anyone could have fought. ... During any war, foreign or domestic, prisoners are always taken. During a civil war then the prisoners might be a cousin or maybe a close friend which makes it harder to keep the prisoner from interacting with their guards. ... In Frank O"Connor's "Guests of the Nation", Belcher and Hawkins were taken prisoners by the Irish during the war between Irelan...
At one incident, Trotsky stopped Czech prisoners from fighting the Central Powers by stopping them on the railroad tracks. Trotsky demanded that the Czech prisoners must be used in the labor force, or if they disobeyed, they would be sent to concentration camps. The Czech prisoners were then taken in until Kolchak's forces grouped with them and promised them gold in exchange for the removal of the Bolsheviks. ... " This ended the Russian Civil War. ... That is why the Bolsheviks won the civil war....
