"Operation Sook Ching meaning "to purge" or "eliminate" was a massive Japanese exercise to ferret the local Chinese community for anti-Japanese elements, conducted by the 25th Army beginning on 18 February 1942 and resulting in the massacre of thousands of local Chinese." -(infopedia, Operation Sook Ching)
The Japanese had hostility to the Chinese in Singapore. Since the occupation in Singapore by Japanese, Chinese started making anti-Japanese movements. There would be underground anti-Japanese movement in Singapore.
They made Chinese people aged from 18 - 50 to congregate at concentration centres. The island was divided into four sections.
The massacre sites were
Ponggol Beach.
Changi Beach/ Changi Spit Beach: Victims from Bukit Timah/Stevens Road (Sook Ching point).
Changi Road 8 ms 300 acre plantation (Samba Ikat village): 250 victims from Changi 8 ms (Sook Ching point).
Hougang 8 ms: Six lorry loads of people were said to have been massacred here.
Katong 7 ms: 20 trenches were dug.
Beach opposite 27 Amber Road: Two lorry loads of people were said to have been massacred here; the site is now a car park.
Tanah Merah Beach/Tanah Merah Besar Beach: 242 victims taken from Jalan Besar Sook Ching point; currently a runway of Changi airport.
Thomson Road: Sime Road, near golf course and the villages in the vicinity.
Katong, East Coast Road: 732 victims from Telok Kurau School (Sook Ching point).
Siglap area, Bedok South Avenue/Bedok South Road: Previously known as Jalan Puay Poon.
Blakang Mati Beach, off the Sentosa Golf Course: Many bodies of the massacred victims were washed ashore and were buried. - (infopedia)
Website URL : http://infopedia.nl.sg/articles/SIP_40_2005-01-24.html
Date accessed : 17 Feb 2013
Date accessed : 17 Feb 2013
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