The march was characterized by wide-ranging physical abuse and murder, and resulted in very high fatalities inflicted upon prisoners and civilians alike by the Japanese Army, and was later judged by an Allied military commission to be a Japanese war crime.
The march was characterized by wide-ranging physical abuse and murder, and resulted in very high fatalities. These very high fatalities were inflicted upon prisoners and civilians alike by the Japanese Army. The march was later judged by an Allied military commission. This was to be a Japanese war crime.