At the end of this time period, those who still refused repatriation would be released.
Many chose to stay after Thai declaration of war in January, refusing repatriation.
One P.O.W. who refused repatriation at the last minute was returned to Saudi custody.
Was this what they had desired, when they refused repatriation from this world that they loved?
When the war ended twenty-three of them refused repatriation, later in 1953 changing their minds.
Of the other 15,000 or so, at the end of the war in 1783 a full 6,000 refused repatriation and elected to become Americans.
He suffered a stroke in 1944 but refused repatriation.
The Armistice Agreement provided that a nonbelligerent nation would provide security forces to hold any prisoner of war who refused repatriation.
Like the man ben Yehuda, a civilian engineer who had violently refused repatriation to his native Ararat just that afternoon.
Ultimately, more than 22,000 North Korean or Chinese soldiers refused repatriation.