Gbp500 'Insult' to British Subjects Jailed in Camps by Japanese Second World War Internees Take Fight to Mps
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HUNDREDS of British civilians born abroad, who were imprisoned by the Japanese during the second world war, yesterday condemned a decision to pay them just GBP500 compensation.
The one-off payment from the Ministry of Defence falls well short of the GBP10,000 already given to most Japanese PoWs as a "debt of honour" to mark the appalling conditions suffered by internees.See the full content of this document
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Gbp500 'Insult' to British Subjects Jailed in Camps by Japanese Second World War Internees Take Fight to Mps
The terms of that scheme were drawn up so that only those born in the UK, orwho have parents or grandparents born here, were included. That excluded as many a...
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