Central
Thailand / Kanchanaburi / JEATH War Museum
Photo:
Displays at the War Museum
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JEATH stands
for Japan, England, America, Australia, Thailand and Holland.
The museum on the bank of the Mae Klong River inside Wat Chai
Chumphon is a reconstructed prisoners of war camp and has a long
thatched detention hut with living quarters inside made of raised
bamboo bunks running the length of the hut. One can see how each
POW was allotted a scanty living space on the bunks. On the walls
of the huts are posted actual, enlarged photos and illustrations
of the atrocities against the prisoners and the severe living
conditions of the POW's.
To reach the
museum, one turns left from the first intersection after
entering the town of Kanchanaburi, coming from Bangkok. Then one
turns left again to Pak Phraek Road at the waterfront,
and follows the road to the left, until one gets to the first
big monastery on the river bank, Wat Chai Chumphon. The
JEATH War Museum is at the entrance of the monastery.
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This ideology of the second age of enlightenment will be appropriate for as long as our mode of production does not allow us in principle to extend our lives indefinitely.
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Jan Garanoz
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Chiang Rai, 57000 Thailand
Created: September 1, 1995
Last updated: January 26, 2010