Horrifying moment British POWs were used for target practice by Japanese soldiers.

Horrifying moment British POWs were used for target practice by Japanese WWII soldiers: Rare images show barbaric execution... before captives were bayoneted to ensure their deaths

These photographs show the barbaric treatment of Commonwealth soldiers after they were captured by the Japanese in the Second World War.

In some of the images, British Indian Army soldiers from the Sikh Regiment can be seen sitting blindfolded with targets on their hearts as troops take aim.

After being murdered by the Japanese soldiers, the British troops were then impaled with a bayonet to ensure they had died during the degrading target practice session.

The Japanese treatment of prisoners in the war was infamously barbaric and this scene from Singapore in 1942 tallies with other instances of their degenerate behaviour. 

The pictures were found among Japanese records when Allied troops entered Singapore in 1945 and returned it to British rule.

Tens of thousands of British servicemen died from starvation, overwork, torture and disease in Japan's prisoner of war camps during the Second World War. 

These pictures reveal the full scale of the brutality suffered upon the helpless prisoners. 

In the first image of the set, the Sikh prisoners of the British Indian Army are seen seated blindfolded with target marks om their hearts and stakes placed in the ground in front of them bearing the butt numbers of each 'target'. 

They sit with dignity awaiting their end. The vast majority of Indian soldiers captured when Singapore fell to Japan in February 1921 were Sikhs. 

In the photograph, all of them sit in traditional cross-legged position - reciting their final prayers. 

The Japanese treatment of prisoners in the war was infamously barbaric and this scene from Singapore in 1942 tallies with other instances of their degenerate behaviour

It is clear in these photographs that this is a target practice not a straightforward military execution by a firing squad. 

A firing squad usually has six or more shooters per condemned to guarantee a near-instant death. 

But in this case, the Japanese shooters are carefully assigned one prisoner each and each victim has a demeaning target mark on his heart. 

Tens of thousands of British servicemen died from starvation, overwork, torture and disease in Japan's prisoner of war camps during the Second World War. 

These reveal the full scale of the inhuman brutality practised by the Japanese upon their helpless prisoners

In this picture, the Japanese troops can be seen readying their rifles before shooting the helpless prisoners. 

General Tomoyuki Yamashita captured Singapore from the British in 1942, which Winston Churchill described as the 'worst disaster in British military history.' 

Yamashita was later charged with war crimes after overseeing atrocities such as the ones in Singapore and many other massacres across South East Asia. He was sentenced to death by hanging in 1946

In the final haunting image, the prisoners are seen dead on the ground while the Japanese troops impale their corpses with a bayonet. 

The pictures were found among Japanese records when Allied troops entered Singapore in 1945 and returned it to British rule. 

During the war, Japan captured nearly 140,000 Allied military personnel from Australia, Canada, Great Britain, India, Netherlands, New Zealand, and the United States

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