surrendered personnel

surrendered personnel
   Japanese prisoners of war
   An evasion used by the British 14th Army, which had killed about 500,000 of the enemy and wanted to dissuade the remainder from obeying their martial code — fighting to the death or committing hara kiri:
    By October, thousands of Japanese Surrendered Personnel (as a salve to their dignity they were never referred to as prisoners)... (M. Clark, 1991)

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