PDF, KIA and allied forces attacked junta troops who have been holed up in a monastery in the Sagaing Region town for months with hundreds of civilian ‘human shields’.

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Brent Sadler is a senior fellow for naval warfare and advanced technology at The Heritage Foundation. Jack Erickson is a former member of the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage Foundation.

Mountaineer Joe Simpson travels to Myanmar to retrace the steps of his father, who fought behind Japanese lines in WWII, facing conditions which made this one of the toughest campaigns of the war.

He was put to work with thousands of others on the Burma-Thailand railway ... Disease and starvation claimed 16,000 prisoners of war and around 90,000 civilians to forced labour by the Japanese.

Burma is a long-forgotten battleground for religious freedom and human rights in Asia, and its turmoil is part of a broader struggle in the region.

Most of them went home during the war, and immigration has now been stopped, but there are still an estimated 700,000 Indian aliens in Burma, where their influence in the commercial sphere it very ...

This film records the Japanese militarys efforts to capture the Burma Roadone of the major supply lines to China from the British beginning in December 1941 The film ends with the fall of Mandalay ...

Track the progress of the Burma Campaign - from the rapid Japanese ... The longest British and Commonwealth Campaign of World War Two was over.