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Compensation for "Far East Prisoners of War"

Portuguese translation: Compensação para os prisioneiros de Guerra no Extremo Oriente


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English term or phrase:Compensation for
Portuguese translation:Compensação para os prisioneiros de Guerra no Extremo Oriente
Entered by: Claudia Massey
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English term or phrase: Compensation for "Far East Prisoners of War"
This about compensation payment.

Thanks !!
Claudia Massey
United Kingdom
Local time: 03:55
Indemnização para os prisioneiros da Guerra no Extremo Oriente
Explanation:
Indemnização para os prisioneiros da Guerra no Extremo Oriente

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Note added at 11 mins (2007-03-08 11:52:59 GMT)
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Trata-se dos prisioneiros de guerra (na sua maioria britânicos) durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial na Ásia.

Compensação para os prisioneiros de guerra na Ásia (durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial)

http://www.cofepow.org.uk/
A charity perpetuating the memory of those Prisoners of War who were held captive in South East Asia during World War II.

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Note added at 13 mins (2007-03-08 11:54:41 GMT)
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http://www.di-ve.com/dive/portal/portal.jhtml?id=269562&pid=...
On 15 February 1942, after bitter fighting in Malaya, on Singapore Island and at sea, the British and Commonwealth Forces in Singapore surrendered to the Japanese Imperial Forces. As a result of these defeats some 50,000 British troops were taken into captivity. In August 1945, following the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan surrendered to the Allied Forces. Soon after, Singapore, Malaya, Siam and Burma were reoccupied and the horrific fate of the 50,000 prisoners of war was fully discovered.

This group had been imprisoned by the Japanese for three and a half years in indescribable conditions, with the bare minimum of dietary intake, and more often less than the bare minimum. The food was rice and it was noticeable that within a short time, every cat disappeared. Everybody started showing signs of malnutrition and various diseases were manifest. It became evident that it was a battle to survive; little or no protection against the elements, only the medical care which they could improvise themselves and exposed to all manner of tropical and other diseases.
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Cristina Santos
United Kingdom
Local time: 03:55
Grading comment
Obrigada, escolhi compensacao porque fica melhor o meu contexto.
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4 +4Indemnização para os prisioneiros da Guerra no Extremo Oriente
Cristina Santos


  

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compensation for "Far East Prisoners of War"
Indemnização para os prisioneiros da Guerra no Extremo Oriente


Explanation:
Indemnização para os prisioneiros da Guerra no Extremo Oriente

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Note added at 11 mins (2007-03-08 11:52:59 GMT)
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Trata-se dos prisioneiros de guerra (na sua maioria britânicos) durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial na Ásia.

Compensação para os prisioneiros de guerra na Ásia (durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial)

http://www.cofepow.org.uk/
A charity perpetuating the memory of those Prisoners of War who were held captive in South East Asia during World War II.

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Note added at 13 mins (2007-03-08 11:54:41 GMT)
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http://www.di-ve.com/dive/portal/portal.jhtml?id=269562&pid=...
On 15 February 1942, after bitter fighting in Malaya, on Singapore Island and at sea, the British and Commonwealth Forces in Singapore surrendered to the Japanese Imperial Forces. As a result of these defeats some 50,000 British troops were taken into captivity. In August 1945, following the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan surrendered to the Allied Forces. Soon after, Singapore, Malaya, Siam and Burma were reoccupied and the horrific fate of the 50,000 prisoners of war was fully discovered.

This group had been imprisoned by the Japanese for three and a half years in indescribable conditions, with the bare minimum of dietary intake, and more often less than the bare minimum. The food was rice and it was noticeable that within a short time, every cat disappeared. Everybody started showing signs of malnutrition and various diseases were manifest. It became evident that it was a battle to survive; little or no protection against the elements, only the medical care which they could improvise themselves and exposed to all manner of tropical and other diseases.

Cristina Santos
United Kingdom
Local time: 03:55
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Obrigada, escolhi compensacao porque fica melhor o meu contexto.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Murillo do Amaral
27 mins
  -> Obrigada Murillo

agree  cadmio
31 mins
  -> Obrigada

agree  Sonia Heidemann
2 hrs
  -> Obrigada Sonia

agree  Alvaro Neder, Ph.D.
2 hrs
  -> Obrigada Alvaro
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