This brought more Poles into the Soviet orbit including civilian refugees, military internees, and pre-war Polish residents of Lithuania. |
Displaced persons, refugees, and internees were gradually repatriated though it remained impossible to obtain accurate population census figures. |
Two internees originally taken into custody by the United Kingdom have been held for more than a year. |
More than 100 former prisoners of war and civilian internees attended the reunion. |
These prisoners of war and internees were held in camps extending from Burma to the Philippines and even to mainland Japan. |
They are said to have inhumanely treated internees, who sustained injuries following repeated assaults. |