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Photo taken on Aug. 19, 2020 shows the Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, where around 7,000 prisoners of war were buried, in Kanchanaburi, Thailand. During World War II, the Japanese forced more than 60,000 allied prisoners of war and nearly 300,000 Southeast Asian laborers to build a 415km railway across the mountains and jungles between Thailand and Myanmar (then Burma). Tens of thousands died during the construction and it became known as the "Death Railway." (Photo by Ren Qian/Xinhua)