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Mergui Road was a transit route under Imperial Japan, in the area of Burma and Rangoon during World War II. The road was constructed in 1945 by Asian laborers (romusha) and some Allied prisoners of war (or P.O.W.) under brutal slave labor conditions.[1] It served primarily as a means of retreat as British and American forces advanced and rail lines were bombed. Originally, Mergui Road connected Pratchaub Khiri Khan through Tenasserim to Mergui (now Myeik, Burma) on the south coast of Burma.

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  1. ^ The forgotten Mergui Road, the Japanese escape route of 1945

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