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Shameful World War II treatment of ethnic Chinese in PNG revealed

Liberated prisoners of a Japanese civilian labour camp called Ratongor in New Guinea

Liberated prisoners of a Japanese civilian labour camp called Ratongor in New Guinea Source: AWM

Hundreds of local ethnic Chinese in PNG had survived more than three years of brutality in a camp - but liberation left them stranded



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