From todays Daily Telegraph.

DOZENS of former Japanese PoWs marked the 59th anniversary of the fall of Singapore yesterday by opening a museum that they hope will serve as a lasting reminder of the horrors they endured. The old soldiers, most in their 70s and 80s, travelled to Singapore from Britain, Australia and New Zealand to meet at the museum at Changi, site of one of the most infamous Japanese prison camps.

The museum is a fresh attempt to assemble accounts from those who suffered under Japan's imperial army between 1942 and 1945. It displays hundreds of photographs and personal items such as diaries, letters and drawings that show life in the camps and the dignity people managed to retain. It was from Changi that Japan shipped many prisoners to work on the Burma-Thailand Railway, known as the "Death Railway".

I feel that Fiolars Initial post was rooted in the Irish posts and threads that seem to have sprung up recently debating the good and bad on both sides, this time, however well meant his comment there is no humour there that I can see, though possibly some of the may thousands who died in captivity of starvation, disease and execution thought it funny.

Having agreed at length that the killing of civillians on Bloddy Sunday was very wrong, lets now think what it must have been like to have your friends used as bayonet practice, again I see no humour here.

Stuart