Thanbyuzayat World War II Cemetery(သုသာန်ပၞာန်) — Attraction in Mawlamyine District

A historical place where one of the revolutionary begun in Myanmar.

The Burma-Siam railway, built by Commonwealth, Dutch and American prisoners of war, was a Japanese project driven by the need for improved communications to support the large Japanese army in Burma. During its construction, approximately 13,000 prisoners of war died and were buried along the railway. An estimated 80,000 to 100,000 civilians also died in the course of the project, chiefly forced labour brought from Malaya and the Dutch East Indies, or conscripted in Siam (Thailand) and Burma (Myanmar).

Two labour forces, one based in Siam and the other in Burma worked from opposite ends of the line towards the centre. The Japanese aimed at completing the railway in 14 months and work began in October 1942. The line, 424 kilometres long, was completed by December 1943.

The graves of those who died during the construction and maintenance of the Burma-Siam railway (except for the Americans, whose remains were repatriated) were transferred from camp burial grounds and isolated sites along the railway into three cemeteries at Chungkai and Kanchanaburi in Thailand and Thanbyuzayat in Myanmar.

Thanbyuzayat became a prisoner of war administration headquarters and base camp in September 1942 and in January 1943 a base hospital was organised for the sick. The camp was close to a railway marshalling yard and workshops, and heavy casualties were sustained among the prisoners during Allied bombing raids in March and June 1943. The camp was then evacuated and the prisoners, including the sick, were marched to camps further along the line where camp hospitals were set up. For some time, however, Thanbyuzayat continued to be used as a reception centre for the groups of prisoners arriving at frequent intervals to reinforce the parties working on the line up to the Burma-Siam border.

Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery was created by the Army Graves Service who transferred to it all burials along the northern section of the railway, between Moulmein and Nieke.

There are 3,005 Commonwealth and 621 Dutch burials of the Second World War in...

While this was a beautiful place to reflect on the past and the sacrifice made by soldiers in the second world war, I arrived here on the third day of the October full moon festival. Local's had the day off and were treating the park like an amusement area. It felt very disrespectful to those who had sacrificed their...

သံဖြူဇရပ်စစ်သင်္ချိုင်း (Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery) သည် ၁၉၄၆ ခုနှစ် ဒီဇင်ဘာလ ၈ ရက်နေ့တွင် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၌ ပထမဆုံး ဖွင့်လှစ်ခဲ့သည့် စစ်သင်္ချိုင်းဖြစ်ပြီး မွန်ပြည်နယ်၊ သံဖြူဇရပ်မြို့တွင် တည်ရှိသည်။ ၁၉၄၂ ခုနှစ်မှ ၁၉၄၅ ခုနှစ်အတွင်း ဂျပန် စစ်သုံ့ပန်းများအဖြစ် မြန်မာ-ယိုးဒယား(ထိုင်း) နယ်စပ် မီးရထားလမ်းဖောက်လုပ်စဉ် သေဆုံးခဲ့ကြသည့် ဗြိတိသျှ စစ်မှုထမ်းများ၊ ဩစတြေးလျ စစ်မှုထမ်းများ၊ ဒတ်ခ်ျ စစ်မှုထမ်းများနှင့် အာရှချွေးတပ်သား စုစုပေါင်း ၃၇၇၁ ဦးကို မြှုပ်နှံထားသည့် စစ်သင်္ချိုင်းကြီး ဖြစ်သည်။ ယင်းစစ်သင်္ချိုင်းကို ၁၈ ဒီဇင်ဘာ ၁၉၄၆ က ဗိုလ်ချုပ် အောင်ဆန်းနှင့် ဘုရင်ခံဆာ ဟူး ဘတ်ရန့် တို့ လာရောက် ဖွင့်လှစ် ပေးခဲ့သည်။အသေးစိတ်တည်နေရာသံဖြူဇရပ်မြို့နိုင်ငံမြန်မာနိုင်ငံကိုဩဒိနိတ်15°58′22″N97°43′06″E / 15.9727°N 97.7184°E အမျိုးအစားစစ်သင်္ချိုင်းပိုင်ဆိုင် Commonwealth War Graves Commissionဝဘ်ဆိုဒ် Cemetery Details. Commonwealth War...