Singapore's Killing Fields

Singapore's own Killing Fields were forgotten by many, history let to rest. No one wants to talk about it any more. Why would they want to bring up bad memories that would tarnish their good friends, embarrass them for their crime against humanity when they regard the Japanese as the highly respected and most trusted big power in Asia, according to a silly banana.

Thank you Aqil Haziq Mahmud for bringing these Killing Fields to light again.

After more than 70 years, the painful memories of those whose loved ones were massacred by the brutal invading Japanese soldiers would linger on, would not go away. Many children lived without their parents, parents without their children, wives and daughters without their husbands and brothers. The tragedies of this dark chapter of a hapless people cruelly rounded up and shot and buried in mud, without coffin or ceremony, must never be forgotten. The ugly Japanese, the beasts of WW2, thought a few words of apologies and some money would be enough to erase the pain and suffering and the horrors of those that fell victims and their families. Did they return the loots, the national treasures? No way. Such barbaric crime against humanity cannot be forgotten, except by the rootless and shameless bananas.

Hundreds of thousands were killed in cold blood and in glee by the insane and senseless Japanese. And the lying and deceitful Japanese as usual put the death toll at a measly 5,000. Such blatant refusal to admit the truth and their evil crime against the civilians of Singapore and other parts of Asia and SE Asia is the hallmark of the Japanese, and it is baffling that some daft, descendants of the victims of Japanese aggression, would regard them as the most trusted big power in Asia, and supporting the remilitarisation of Japan to conduct wars again. In China alone they massacred more than 30 million Chinese.

Below are some extracts from Aqil's article in the Channel News Asia on 7 April 18 on the Singapore killing fields.

"Mr Goh, who was aged 25 at the time, had just uncovered a mass grave filled with piles of bones belonging to victims of the Second World War. This was near Jalan Puay Poon in Bedok, close to where Temasek Junior College now sits.

The victims were killed in Operation Sook Ching, a “purge” campaign targeted at the Chinese in Singapore. Those suspected of being anti-Japanese were hauled into lorries and executed at remote locations across the island. Jalan Puay Poon was one of the killing grounds.

According to a National Library Board resource, the Japanese put the official Sook Ching death count at 5,000, although the actual figure is believed to be much higher...Mr Goh, now 81, estimated that thousands were killed and buried at the Jalan Puay Poon site, which contained several mass graves. 

“We didn’t dare touch it, so we quickly covered it,” Mr Goh said of his discovery. Eventually the bones were dug out, washed with water and disinfectant, then dried in the sun. Once ready, they were put in 1m-tall funeral jars.

Mr Goh would also go on to scour at least 10 other sites in places like Punggol, Bukit Timah and Choa Chu Kang. The exhumations lasted at least six years, producing 681 jars of bones that were filled to the brim....(RB-Many were also massacred on the beaches of Pulau Blakang Mati now Sentosa, East Coast, Punggol and Changi).

But the sheer size of the Jalan Puay Poon site meant the four-man squad was overwhelmed. Eventually, more than 50 people worked over a year to exhume the bones there....Workers toiled in the sweltering heat from 9am to 6pm, six days a week....The remains were transported by lorry to the Civilian War Memorial on Beach Road. Each truck could only carry 30 jars to avoid breaking them....

Mr Goh said 38 lorries would pull in at the Jalan Puay Poon site. “At 9am they lined people up one by one and started shooting,” he recalled. “The gunshots were never-ending.” This would go on till the evening."

Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/grave-bones-world-war-ii-victims-singapore-sook-ching-10089202