Tourists visiting the historic Plaza Cuartel in Puerto Princesa

Local tourists stroll at the Plaza Cuartel, a leisure park in Puerto Princesa, Palawan on Tuesday (April 25, 2017). Plaza Cuartel, once a Spanish garrison, stands as a grim reminder of World War II atrocities after Japanese soldiers, realizing that they were losing the war, torched some 150 American prisoners of war in a tunnel beneath the park's portals on the evening of December 14, 1944. (PNA photo by Joey O. Razon)