Hong Sa-ik
Japanese general
Died when: 57 years 206 days (690 months)Star Sign: Pisces
Hong Sa-ik (hangul ???;hanja ???; 4 March 1889 – 26 September 1946), and was also known by the Japanese pronunciation of his name - Shiyoku Ko (Japanese: ? ??, Ko Shiyoku) or Shiyoku Kou, was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army, and the top-ranking ethnic Korean in Japan to be charged with war crimes relating to the conduct of the Empire of Japan in World War II.
A graduate of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy, Hong was placed in command of the Japanese camps holding Allied (primarily U.S. and Filipino) prisoners of war in the Philippines during the latter part of World War II , where many of the camp guards were of Korean ethnicity.
Hong was held responsible for all the atrocities committed by Imperial Japanese Army prison guards against Allied POWs in Philippines, and was hanged in 1946.
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