The Sook Ching Massacre, Singapore. 16th February- 4th March 1942

[micromachine]

https://tinyurI.com/y5zlvo3r

 

[ginfreely]

Lots of chinese traitor dogs around since time immemorial.

 

[JohnTan]

On behalf of all samsters, I would like to take this opportunity to commemorate 52 years of friendship between Japan and Singapore. Without aid from Japan, Singapore would not have been able to transition so quickly from 3rd World to First in a single generation.

 

[steffychun]

On behalf of all samsters, I would like to take this opportunity to commemorate 52 years of friendship between Japan and Singapore. Without aid from Japan, Singapore would not have been able to transition so quickly from 3rd World to First in a single generation.

Aid for collaborators.

 

[JohnTan]

Lots of chinese traitor dogs around since time immemorial.

You are a traitor of jiuhu. KT Latha said you are disloyal to jiuhu.

 

[syed putra]

Malays were sent to japan for trsining. And schools were taught in japanese.if only they had won.

 

[Hypocrite-The]

Guess the race of the prison guards..

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A former POW of the Japanese has expressed "disgust" at a campaign by a group of auxiliary troops from Korea and Taiwan who were convicted of war crimes to have their names cleared and to receive compensation.

Thousands of men from Japan's colonies served in the Imperial Japanese Army in the early decades of the last century, primarily in rear-echelon areas in roles such as guards at Japan's notoriously brutal POW camps.

After Japan's defeat, 321 of its colonial subjects were convicted by Allied military courts of class B and C war crimes, including mistreatment of prisoners. In total, 26 Taiwanese and 23 Koreans were subsequently executed.

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A group of veterans set up a group named Doshinkai in 1955 to demand that the government apologise for forcing them to join the Japanese military and, as a consequence, being convicted of war crimes. The group is also seeking compensation for what they claim has been damage to their reputations.

Lee Hyok-rae, the 89-year-old chairman of the group, told a meeting in Tokyo recently that the Japanese government must apologise soon as time is running out for the veterans. Of the 70 original members of the group, only five are still alive.

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"I want to ask that our honour be restored very soon," Lee said.

Lee complained that while former servicemen convicted of war crimes receive monthly pensions, non-Japanese nationals receive a smaller amount.

"It's a tough situation and it's continuing," Lee said. "I would like to ask for support."

But Arthur Lane, who was a bugler with the Manchester Regiment and captured at the fall of Singapore in February 1942, says the troops from Japan's colonies were the most vicious abusers of prisoners.


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"The Japanese guards were bad, but the Koreans and the Formosans were the worst," he told The Telegraph from his home in Stockport.

"These were men who the Japanese looked down on as colonials, so they needed to show they were as good as the Japanese," he said. "And they had no-one else to take it out on other than us POWs."

Now 94, Lane was sent to work on the "Death Railway," which was designed to run from Thailand to the Indian border and to serve as the Japanese invasion route. An estimated 12,400 Allied POWs and some 90,000 Asian labourers died during the construction of the 258-mile track.

"After my capture, I witnessed many atrocities - murders, executions, beatings and instances of sadistic torture - and I was on the receiving end myself on a number of occasions," he said.

"I was also one of a handful of buglers in the camps and played my bugle at thousands of burials for the victims of the 'sons of heaven'," he added.

"That's why I have no sympathy for this group's claims," he added. "These men volunteered and they all knew exactly what they were doing. And they mistreated us because they wanted to please their masters and knew they could get away with it.

"They joined up for kicks, when Japan was winning the war, and they took advantage of that for their own enjoyment," Lane said.

"They won't get an apology or compensation from the Japanese government," he added. "I think a more fitting result would be to have then taken out and whipped for what they did to us."


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[ginfreely]

You are a traitor of jiuhu. KT Latha said you are disloyal to jiuhu.

Obviously you are a coward slanderer hiding behind another coward slanderer. Most coward bastard in other words. Pui!

 

[ginfreely]

Lots of chinese traitor dogs around since time immemorial.

@JohnTan and @AhMeng Hakka Cantonese grandfathers are of course involved in sook Ching massacre. The Grandsons are chinese traitor dogs doing to me what their traitor grandfathers did in sook Ching massacre then: pointing their ccb fingers. No remorse until now!

 

[ginfreely]

@JohnTan and @AhMeng Hakka Cantonese grandfathers are of course involved in sook Ching massacre. The Grandsons are chinese traitor dogs doing to me what their traitor grandfathers did in sook Ching massacre then: pointing their ccb fingers. No remorse until now!

This is called traitor genes indeed.

 

[red amoeba]

Gratitude to the japs too - for their AV.

 

[Hypocrite-The]

@JohnTan and @AhMeng Hakka Cantonese grandfathers are of course involved in sook Ching massacre. The Grandsons are chinese traitor dogs doing to me what their traitor grandfathers did in sook Ching massacre then: pointing their ccb fingers. No remorse until now!

Taiwanese are much better in the anti Jap resistance..




















Patrick Cowsill
Wanhua, Taiwan






























11/27/2011
Taiwanese Guards at POW Camps






Lin De-hua (林德華), World War Two vet and keeper of war records at
Taichung's War Shrine (台中寶學寺)

In literature regarding the topic, much has been made about the brutality of Taiwanese guards at the POW camps located in Taiwan and other places across Southeast Asia during World War II. The camps in Taiwan mainly held British and Commonwealth troops captured with the fall of Singapore in February 1942. A handful of Americans also ended up here, shipped in from the Philippines after they went down in April 1942. I'll put up a few accounts of what was happening to the POWs:

"We christened [the Taiwanese guards] the 'Runabouts' or 'Goons.' They seemed to be the lowest type in the army. Very young, they jumped at the commands of the lowliest [of] Japanese privates, who did not hesitate to slap them in the face. Face slapping seemed to be allowed from officer down through NCOs to privates in the Japanese Army. The Formosans were below privates and as we soon learnt, we were at the end of the line . . . These young 'Runabouts' reveled in their power, and they loved to rush into the hut, trying to catch prisoners too slow in bowing and coming to attention." - Jack Edwards, British POW at the Kinkaseki (金瓜石) and Hsintien (新店) camps


"They certainly went to great lengths to please their masters; one way in which this manifested itself was their treatment of us, the prisoners. They had the right to beat us, and this they did at the least provocation. They were like dangerous children attempting to ape their dangerous parents." - Arthur Titherington, British POW at the Kinkaseki (金瓜石) and Hsintien (新店) camps

"The 'Runabouts' were also given nicknames: 'The Christian" . . . Rampu or 'Lampu,' because one day he bashed all of us while pointing to a lamp, Rampu (he was an ugly vicious character who seemed to grunt instead of talk) and 'Scarface' or 'The Mad Carpenter,' because he had an old scar on his face, and was in charge of the prisoners assigned to carpentry repairs (he had a violent temper and a vicious punch, as I found to my cost in the first days)." - Jack Edwards

"[Taiwanese guards] were just as cruel. They emulated the Japs very well. The guards would strike you for the most trivial things. You had to stand at attention while they hit your head with their fist. If you didn't, trying to dodge it, then you'd end up with a rifle butt on your head or on the ground while getting kicked. I saw them murder a man, hit [him] on the head with a sword scabbard -- he died that night from the wounds." - Jack Butterworth, British POW at the Kinkaseki (金瓜石) and Hsintien (新店) camps

"In April, 1943 that changed [at the POW camp in Sandakan, Borneo] with the arrival of Formosan (now Taiwan) guards. The Formosans, like the Koreans in other camps, were brutal . . . My gang would be working and then would be suddenly told to stop. The men would then be stood with their arms outstretched horizontally, shoulder high, facing the sun without hats. The guards would be formed into two sections, one standing back with rifles and the others doing the actual beating. They would walk along . . . and smack us underneath the arms, across the ribs and back. They would give each man a couple of bashes -- if they whimpered or flinched they would get more." - POW, name not recorded

It seems officers interned in the various camps also suffered. Major General Jonathan Wainwright of the US, who was left behind by a fleeing Douglas MacArthur to surrender the Philippines, was for a while at a camp in Pingtung. Dealing with diarrhea one day, he tried to make a dash for the latrine. Almost there, a Taiwanese guard called him to attention and scolded him for not bowing. As a member of the cavalry, Wainwright had become bow-legged, so much so that his legs "looked like warped bamboo" (Daws, Gavan. Prisoners of the Japanese: POWs of World War II in the Pacific. 97). Taking note, the guard jabbed at them with his bayonet and began to laugh. When Wainwright tried to hold his knees together, his feet splayed out. Amused, the guard jammed his legs together and let go. With a scrunched up face, the American general was forced to bear these antics, all the while struggling not to dirty his pants.

Were these acts simply the expected consequences of war? War-atrocity investigators did not seem to think so. In 1945-46, many of the Runabouts were themselves incarcerated at the very POW camps where the shenanigans occurred while evidence was being collected to unknot the story. All told, 173 Taiwanese individuals, including many of the POW-camp guards, were charged with war crimes. Of the 173, 26 were executed for their conduct.

In trying to figure out why Taiwanese guards behaved as they did (as part of my master's thesis), I talked to Lin De-hua (pictured above), a World War II veteran himself and keeper of records at Taichung's war shrine. The following is what I came away with:

1. Taiwanese conscripts, as Edwards points out, were at the bottom of the food chain. The pressure of their situation on occasion brought out the worst in them. Beating up on POWs served as a kind of release.

2. Take this job and shove it: Taiwanese conscripts serving in Taiwan did not receive pay. The guards blamed the POWs. Simply put, no POWs meant "bye bye, crummy job."

3. The guards saw the POWs as an obstacle. They were the reason the guards could not return to their homes.

4. Taiwanese guards were also bullied. Since they experienced violence on a regular basis (face slapping and so on), they assumed it was normal or even okay. To play the devil's advocate, I think I'll point out that this order, given by the Chief of Prisoner of War Camps in Tokyo to the Chief of Staff of the Taiwan Army in a letter dated August 20, 1945 (or six days after the Japanese surrender) was used as evidence by the International Prosecution Section of the British Division 2011 (labeled Exhibit J): "Personnel who mistreat soldiers of war and internees or who are held in extremely bad sentiment by them are permitted to take care of it by transferring or by fleeing without a trace." Many of the guards took this advice. The guards, and the Japanese military for that matter, had to have known their behavior was wrong and this detail seems to support just that.

5. The worst of the Taiwanese recruits became guards. The best were sent out into Asia to fight. According to Lin, Taiwanese boys were typically drafted at 16 or 17 years of age. Before receiving official conscription notices, called pink slips, which came from the local police station via their bao jia (保甲) head, all male adolescents underwent three physicals. In addition to having their health checked, administrators subjected the youngsters to various fitness exams to test strength and endurance. Upon being conscripted, Taiwanese males were sorted for combat or homeland defense based on these tests as well as their school grades. Lin says kids actually competed to be chosen for the front lines. Why? While combat was obviously considered more dangerous, it was not without its perks. Combat soldiers were the only conscripts that were paid. Soldiers sent off to the front could in certain instances (such as pilots) achieve rank while those who remained, as already mentioned, could not. Making the grade translated into prestige. As a result, the strongest and the brightest served abroad. The dregs went on to distinction as 'Runabouts' and what have you.

6. From October 1944 until August 1945, Taiwan was bombed almost daily. Around 75 percent of the colony's infrastructure was destroyed and many innocent civilians died. This had to have been annoying.

7. Some people are just sadistic. Every country has its fair share of Runabouts and Goons.

Patrick Cowsill at 21:09
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   Terry J. Benzie27/11/11
   Interesting post - enjoyed it.
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   Anonymous28/11/11
   I do have a new blog; clearly I didn't do as good a job promoting it as I should have. =) It's actually the same url as my original blog with a new look: valerienicole.wordpress.com
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   EyeDoc30/11/11
   Understandably, much emphasis has been placed on the brutality of a small number of Taiwanese prison guards. Some were thugs whom we don't want to associate with in our daily lives, either. Some were practicing Buddhists or Christians; in Kinkaseki, the POWs did encounter at least one sympathetic guard who assisted the prisoners at great personal peril.
   
   This is not what the Taiwanese servicemen and women should be remembered.
   
   The vast majority of the best, brightest, strongest Taiwanese men sent to the front line to fight, die from combat or starvation, or captured and imprisoned were never memorialized.
   
   Nurses drafted to serve in field hospitals who starved to death in the Philippines by the end of the war - where is the memorial for them?
   
   And what about those who died in air raids starting in Oct, 1944?
   
   There are still 30,000 grieving war-dead families in Taiwan. Where is the justice for them?
   
   In memorializing Allied POWs in Taiwan, perhaps some soul-searching is needed. "Never forget"? Yes, but not one-sided.
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   FOARP30/11/11
   I'm sorry Patrick, but you do seem to be running rather close here to excuse-making for war criminals. Nothing excuses what they did, and there should be no false talk of "not excusing but understanding" (whatever this means) - these men were despicable.
   
   Same goes double for what you said EyeDoc. Sympathy for men who behaved little different to the Waffen SS is utterly misplaced.
   
   As for how Taiwanese service men and women should be remembered, how's this for a try - men and women fighting in a morally bankrupt cause. At least those drafted towards the end of the war have the excuse that they had no choice in the matter, but the volunteers have no such excuse.
   
   The one exception to this is the Taiwanese volunteers who managed to make it to the mainland to fight the Japanese there, who can at least be said to have been fighting on the side of justice.
   
   The air raids, aimed as they were against infrastructure, airfields, and ports, were justifiable. No compensation need be paid.
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   EyeDoc30/11/11
   FOARP: I see you have learned well from the Chinese complete with the ignorance on Taiwan's more recent history. Give us the names of Taiwanese who escaped to China and fought the Japanese. That will be the starting point of any discussion.
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   Anonymous30/11/11
   lets us not forget...
   
   WAR brings out the worst of humanity.
   
   we should condemn,those Taiwanese (pow guard) for their behavior, but lets condemn them because they are fellow human being.
   
   and don't forget how easy it was for us to turn against each other... (look at serbia) and we needed to cherish what we have....
   
   peace...
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   Patrick Cowsill30/11/11
   "I'm sorry Patrick, but you do seem to be running rather close here to excuse-making for war criminals. Nothing excuses what they did, and there should be no false talk of "not excusing but understanding" (whatever this means) - these men were despicable."
   
   Like I said, 173 were tried and 23 were executed. Didn't say I had a problem with this. In fact I shot down the most commonly given excuse for the atrocities committed by Taiwanese guards in #4.
   
   I'm neither trying to blame nor excuse here. I'm simply offering a little of the first-hand info I gained from my research. It's a thing I do from time to time.
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   Anonymous1/12/11
   The DRAFT PAPERS, 召集令状　is printed in red paper hence frequently referred as AKAGAMI, 赤紙。Nickname for the paper is ITSSENGORIN, 一銭五厘, a penny and half in English that was the stamp for the postcard during the war time. As the matter of fact, the paper was not mailed by postcard but hand delivered to the person directly by the county officer. It is interest to see the paper is translated as “Pink Slip” by Patrick. The only pink slip I have received was the notice when I was fired by my company on a Friday afternoon.
   ChoSan
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   Patrick Cowsill1/12/11
   "Give us the names of Taiwanese who escaped to China and fought the Japanese. That will be the starting point of any discussion."
   
   This conversation won't happen because those names don't exist.
   
   "At least those drafted towards the end of the war have the excuse that they had no choice in the matter, but the volunteers have no such excuse."
   
   The US declared War on Japan in December 1941. Singapore fell in February 1942. The first POW camps were being set up in Taiwan in late spring, 1942, to deal mainly with soldiers who had served in Singapore. The first draft in Taiwan, the Army Special Volunteer Act (stating that anyone capable of serving would), was enacted at this time. This did not occur at the end of the war, but over three years prior to that time.
   
   "who can at least be said to have been fighting on the side of justice"
   
   This is rather comic book. Shall we all say the US was innocent, a victim, had no hand whatsoever in the events that led up to war with Japan? OK then. Let's hear it. LOL.
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    Unknown12/12/18
    Hi man my name is ChihKang,Ma... call me "pony" if you like it
    I read this text... And I did my homework in JAP & Taiwan...for over 5 years...
    These history has been hiding for long enough.
    
    May I have a chance to talk to you face by face.
    PLZ, if you could give me this chance to get some data that could fell the blank.
    THX yo & Have a nice day
    Reply
    
    

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