BURMA’S “LIDICE”
637 INDIANS MASSACRED VILLAGE DEMOLISHED (9.30 a.m.) RANGOON, March 24. Abdul Jabbar Munshi, a 60-year-old Moslem, told the War Crimes Court that when he returned to the Indian settlement of Kalagon. which was called the “eastern Lidice” after the Japanese had massacred 637 people last year, lie found human bones and mangled bodies in some of the village wells. There was no sign of life. Only two houses were intact amid the ruins of the village, from whose population of 1500 only between 100 to 200 were found living in the surrounding forests.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21979, 25 March 1946, Page 3
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95BURMA’S “LIDICE” Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21979, 25 March 1946, Page 3
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