Prisoners Of War In The Pacific Theater Essay

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Prisoners of War in the Pacific Theater Should it be fair that everyone follows the rules except for one person, or in this case country? During the Hague Convention, the League of Nations issued a series of treaties for how Prisoners of War (POWs) should be treated; These included protecting the sick and injured POWs by providing them health care and food (Tucker). During World War II each country was required to sign these treaties to halt the abuse of POWs. The lives of captured Americans were in the hands of the unknown. In the Pacific Theater as Americans were captured the treatment from the Japanese was drastically different from what they expected to happen. Although Japan and the United States were bitter enemies during World War II with competing military and political objectives and dramatic cultural differences, the mistreatment of American Prisoners of War was at best unnecessary and arguably cruel, illegal, immoral and counterproductive. Even though the Hague Convention was to be spread throughout each country, the Japanese differed in the way they treated …show more content…
When the POWs were building the Burma-Thailand Railroad they purposely messed up lying to tracks, or offset the tracks, to stall the efficiency of the Japanese ability to use the Railroad (Daws 215). Even though many of the men were punished for not meeting the requirements for what needed to be finished for the day. POWs also made make-shift radios throughout the railroad they built to stay in touch with the Allied war effort (Daws 213). This allowed the POWs to regain hope that they would be rescued and the Japanese would not win the war. The approaching of the end of the war and the United States beginning to win left the need to create justice for the death of many American POWs which did nothing to aid Japan in its war
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