War Crimes in Japan-Occupied Indonesia: A Case of Murder by Medicine

by J. Kevin Baird and Sangkot Marzuki

Shortly after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Imperial Army invaded the Dutch East Indies, now known as Indonesia. A deceitful campaign promoting Asian brotherhood recruited and coerced young Indonesian men to support the Japanese occupation with the sinister outcome that several million of them were worked to death or summarily killed as expendable slave laborers, or romusha, as they were called.

While many romusha disappeared from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1612346448
• ISBN13: 9781612346441
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Potomac Books
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"