Settlement Type: | Village |
Official Name: | Kalagon |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map: | Myanmar |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Myanmar (Burma) |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Myanmar |
Subdivision Type1: | Division |
Subdivision Name1: | Mon State |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Mawlamyine District |
Subdivision Type3: | Township |
Subdivision Name3: | Mawlamyine Township |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Coordinates: | 16.5492°N 97.7294°W |
Timezone: | MMT |
Utc Offset: | +6.30 |
Kalagon is a village in Mon State, Myanmar. The village was the site of a massacre perpetrated by the Imperial Japanese Army on 7 July 1945 during World War II. The 3rd Battalion, 215th Regiment and the OC Moulmein Kempeitai of the Imperial Japanese Army killed around 600 to 1,000 unarmed civilians after information on enemy guerrillas was not forthcoming.[1] [2]