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Following the Japanese bombing in 1942, half a million refugees attempted to walk to India. Many died.
*[http://www.koi-hai.com/Default.aspx?id=485079 Koi-Hai website]
*[httphttps://www.angloburmeselibrary.com/treknon-outmembers-of-burma-1942area.html Anglo-Burmese Library] - transcriptions and report. Also the list of internees.
*''Exodus from Burma, 1941-42''; a Memoir by Captain Nadir S. Tyabji [http://amitavghosh.com/blog/?cat=30&paged=2 Parts 1 and 2] , scroll down for Part 1, [http://amitavghosh.com/blog/?cat=30 Parts 3-12] in reverse order, scroll to the bottom for Part 3. amitavghosh.com. The author was appointed as Assistant to the Agent of the Government of India in Burma, and was subsequently in charge of arrangements for the refugees, predominantly Indian, trekking out of Burma.
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/41/a3338741.shtml "Burma before the Japanese Invasion"] and [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/04/a3338804.shtml "Diary of the Trek out of Burma 1942"] by Jose Johnson with an earlier memoir [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/16/a3335816.shtml "My Journey to Burma 1940 by Flying Boat"] bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar
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