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Anybody know if Changi Prison was the prison of note in many ugly WWII stories?


13 posted on 01/25/2007 7:23:35 PM PST by David Isaac
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Changi prison is where the captured British soldiers were kept during WW2 after the fall of Singapore. Clavell's "King Rat" takes place there. By all accounts it was a pretty brutal place.


25 posted on 01/25/2007 8:09:48 PM PST by Ax (The Congress of the United States is now in enemy hands.)
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