Let Hpaw or Retpu () is a village, village tract of
Hlut Shan (
Lutshan) in
Kyain Seikgyi Township
Kyainseikgyi Township ( Phlone: ; , ) is the only township of Kyain Seikkyi District () in southern Kayin State
Kayin State (, ; ; , ), formerly known as Karen State, is a Administrative divisions of Myanmar, state of Myanmar. The capital city ...
,
Kawkareik District Kawkareik District (Eastern Pwo language, Phlone ; ; also called Dooplaya in Karen language) is a district of the Karen State in Myanmar (Burma). It consists of 4 towns; Kawkareik, the capital, Kyainseikgyi, Kyondoe, Payathonzu and Kyaikdon; and 552 ...
,
Kayin State
Kayin State (, ; ; , ), formerly known as Karen State, is a Administrative divisions of Myanmar, state of Myanmar. The capital city is Hpa-An, also spelled Pa-An.
The terrain of the state is mountainous; with the Dawna Range running along the ...
, Myanmar (Burma).
It lies on the alongside of
Thailand–Burma Railway.
Camp Rephaw
Camp Rephaw (also 30 Kilo
) was a
prisoner of war
A prisoner of war (POW) is a person held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict. The earliest recorded usage of the phrase "prisoner of war" dates back to 1610.
Belligerents hold prisoners of war for a ...
camp on the
Burma Railway
The Burma Railway, also known as the Siam–Burma Railway, Thai–Burma Railway and similar names, or as the Death Railway, is a railway between Ban Pong, Thailand, and Thanbyuzayat, Burma (now called Myanmar). It was built from 1940 to 1943 ...
during
World War II
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. It started as a large work camp. The first prisoners arrived on 26 December 1942, and were tasked to lay 15 kilometres of railway to
Anakwin.
During the monsoon season, there was a shortage of food.
On 1 July, a hospital camp was established at Rephaw,
and subject to
strafing
Strafing is the military practice of attacking ground targets from low-flying aircraft using aircraft-mounted automatic weapons.
Less commonly, the term is used by extension to describe high-speed firing runs by any land or naval craft such a ...
attacks by the allied airforces.
References
Populated places in Kayin State
Burma Railway
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