Bataan Death March

Note on correct pronunciation: Filipino (Tagalog) speakers pronounce "Bataan" as (phonetically) "Bata-An". In English, the name is rendered 'Baaa-Tan' or 'Bat-tan'.The Bataan Death March (also known as The Death March of Bataan) took place in the Philippines in 1942 and was later accounted as a Japanese war crime. The march occurred after the three-month Battle of Bataan, part of the Battle of the Philippines (1941–42), during World War II. In Japanese, it is known as , with the same meaning. The march, involving the forcible transfer of tens of thousands (72,000—75,000) of prisoners of war, the surrendered remnants of the combined United States personnel and the Phillipines home defense forces from the Bataan peninsula to prison camps  was characterized by wide-ranging physical abuse, murder, savagery, and resulted in very high fatalities inflicted upon the prisoners and civilians along the route by the armed forces of the Empire of Japan. Beheadings, cut throats and being casually shot were the more common and merciful actions — compared to bayonet stabbings, rapes, guttings (cut open bellies and left to die), numerous rifle butt beatings and a deliberate refusal to allow the prisoners food or water while keeping them continually marching for nearly a week (for the slowest survivors) in tropical heat. Falling down, unable to continue moving was tantamount to a death sentence, as was any degree of protest or expression of displeasure.
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