Sandakan Death March

[breezeman199]

The Japanese were real scum during the war. Maybe it is their culture?

[TectonicPower]

Widespread looting in occupied territories (valuable goods from banks, depositories, temples, churches, mosques, museums, businesses, private homes, etc.) was organized on a massive scale by official secret organization called Kin no yuri (Golden Lily) headed by Chichibu, Hirohito’s brother.

Mass raped by Japanese soldiers in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia, where some victims were pre-menstruating girls.

[TectonicPower]

Between November 1944 and April 1945, Japan launched over 9,300 balloon bombs (or Fu-Go) to attack US and Canada. One bomb killed a woman and 5 children in south Oregon.

A tacit order from Hirohito to execute all Chinese POWs before the surrender of Japan, out of thousands of Chinese POWs, only 56 survived; and to eliminate evidences, all surviving human test subjects in Japanese Army’s chemical and biological research units were executed before the surrender of Japan.

[TectonicPower]

Thousands of POWs and captured civilians were transported to Japan, Taiwan, Indochina, Manchuria, or Korea to be used as forced labor perished in Hell ships such as Oryoku Maru, Junyo Maru, Dainichi Maru, Arisan Maru, and many more.

Only 52,000 of the 270,000 Javanese forced laborers being sent to other Japanese held areas survived after WWII, a death rate of 80%.

[TectonicPower]

Most victims of the human experimentations were Chinese, also American, British, Australian and Russian POWs.

At least six different chemical and biological attacks were conducted in China, such as Changde chemical and biological weapon attack in Hunan, and twice Kaimingjie germ weapon attacks in Zhejiang, chemical weapons attack in Battle of Wuhan and Battle of Zaoyang-Yichang.

Cyanide gas was tested on Australian and Dutch POWs on Kai Islands of Indonesia.

[TectonicPower]

Various Japanese Army Units (100, 200, 516, 543, 731, 773, 1644, 1855, 2646, 8604, 9420) researched and developed chemical (potassium cyanide, phosgene, chlorine, hydrogen cyanide, arsenic trichloride, sulfer mustard, lewisite etc.) and biological (anthrax, glanders, rusts, bubonic plague, typhoid, typhus, cholera, smallpox, botulism, tuberculosis, malaria, etc.) weapons, and conducted lethal human experimentations on the general population in Japanese occupied territories.

[TectonicPower]

The Three Alls Policy (Kill all, Burn all, Loot all) sanctioned by Hirohito was to massacre an entire village if they suspected an enemy hiding in the village, such as the Panjiayu Massacre in Hebei, China.

More than 100,000 civilians and POWs died in the construction of the Death Railway (or Thailand-Burma Railway), especially at Hellfire Pass.

After March 20, 1943, the Japanese Navy was under orders to execute all POWs taken at sea.

[TectonicPower]

• Manila Massacre in Manila, Philippines • Nanking Massacre in Nanking, China • Palawan Massacre in Palawan, Philippinnes • Parit Sulong Massacre in Johor, Malaysia • Sandakan Death Marches in Borneo, Indonesia • Sook Ching Massacre in Singapore • SS Tjisalak Massacre by Japanese submarine I-8 • Terror Bombing of Chongqing, China • Tol Plantation Massacre in Australian Territory of New Guinea • Wake Island Massacre in North Pacific Ocean • Hsuchow (Xuzhou) Massacre in Jiangsu, China

[TectonicPower]

The followings are all well documented massacres and war crimes committed by the Japanese Army during WWII:

• Alexandra hospital Massacre in Singapore

• Bangka Island Massacre in Duch East Indies (now Indonesia)

• Bataan Death March in Philippines

• Benxihu Colliery in Liaoning, China

• Bombing of Darwin and Broome, Australia

• Changjiao Massacre in Hunan, China

• Double Tenth Incident in Singapore

• Kalagong Massacre in Burma

[hoot72]

@semoersepa

You going to Borneo to conduct the tours for free then?

As far as books go, there are 2-3 respected authors who have written good books about the death march. They spent the time researching and are entitled to what is due to them. Without their books, who would be able to read about the tragedy. McArthur did NOT refuse assistance and aircraft to the aussies to rescue the POW's..the aussie military decided against the operation to parachute aussie troops to liberate the POW's.

[DaCrackPOT91]

woooo....i missed sandakan....me always see lots of ghosy without head in the sandakan's town at night..wahaha! XD

[roodog69r]

keith jr is a good freind of mine

his father keith sr was one of five that came home

[SU47000]

bro, I am in a middle of research for a documentary on POW of the sandakan death march. Could you help me to get in touch with keith botteril family? PLS.

[hodaka1000]

@roodog69r dad was one of the 6. The 6 from Bornio. Are you a Cook? Or do you know them? K Jr.

[roodog69r]

@hodaka1000 do you mean Norm and Kerry Cook????

if so yes i know them but have lost contact over the past years

i don,t know where Keith jr is either as i have not heard from them for

must be twenty years,along long time

[roodog69r]

@hodaka1000 my name is gregory sanford

i live in the NT Australia

[hodaka1000]

@roodog69r Yea but your good fiends call you Cassowary Jack, my good friend. How you going Cassowary great to find you mate. K jr.

[maggiethefox]

Two thousand British and Australian prisoners entered Sandokan Japanese POW Camp...six survived. Six.

[minerug]

Bloody imperial japs!

[hodaka1000]

@maggiethefox I think it was more like 2400. About 1500 Australians and around 900 British. Six Australians surived.

[silumaniacROHSIFER]

video apa la ni...mengasih malu ja

[piratesofborneo80]

cm rumah nenek kawan ku ja td tu hehehe lucu pulak aku hahahaha

[pengikut87]

im from sandakan but i dnt knw about this....

[HidekiMatsuzaka]

because its fake

[kennethwilliamsmessi]

How dare you say that, To deny so many deaths of course it happened and you are a bloody idiot to think otherwise who has shown no respect to those brave men who died

[gbh903]

Fake like the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

[gbh903]

@hodaka1000 The world owes your father and the other survivors a debt of gratitude that could never measure up when one considers the hell on Earth they endured. Bless them.

Yes, ironically the Atomic bombs saved more Japanese than they killed, without them a long drawn out series of battles would have been unavoidable and losses on both sides in the millions.

I hope you saw that my comment of "fake" was aimed at that idiot poster HidekiMatsuzaka who claimed the death march was fake.

[hodaka1000]

@gbh903 I'm with you mate. Your not wrong.

[FCCOOL]

Hide kimatsuzaka, what is fake? my grandad was one of the 6 survivors that escaped those jap cunts to tell what really happened, were you there?

[SU47000]

I am doing a docu on sandakan death march, 6 survivors and one of them was your grandfather. I would like to get in touch with u. Could you help me on that? Its very important. Thx

[hoot72]

@SU47000

2 of the dusun elders who saved 2 of the POW's outside of Telupid are still alive but in the late 80s...drop me a message if you do need help getting in touch with them. They dont' speak english but do communicate in bahasa.

[maggiethefox]

I'd smash you face in you Jap bastard.

[hodaka1000]

@HidekiMatsuzaka This HidekiMatsuzaka has got-a hide. In fact he's closed his account and gone into hiding.

[SabahPhilippines]

In 1939, a court judgement on the Sabah claim had handed ownership of North Borneo Sabah to the heirs of the Philippine Sultanate prior to the formation of Malaysian federation in 1963. The judgment of Chief Justice C.F.C. Makaskie of the High Court of North Borneo in the civil suit filed by the late Dayang Dayang Hadji Piandao and eight other heirs of the Sultan of Sulu Philippines, including the famous Putlih (Princess) Tarhata Kiram, upheld the validity of the Sabah claim of the heirs.

[SabahPhilippines]

malaysians SABAH NORTH BORNEO THIEVES are the REAL ILLEGALS IN SABAH NORTH BORNEO -TRUTH will always WIN in the END - DEPORT ALL ILLEGAL MALAYSIANS OF SABAH NORTH BORNEO

LONG LIVE SABAHAN FILIPINOS SABAHAN PINOYS BAJAO TAUSUG

and many more MARAMING SALAMAT PO

[dalina85]

im a sabahan n i agree wf u

[spaghettirico]

This march is a tragedy along with all the other crimes that went on during and after the war. I'm just glad that people are respecting the deaths of the men.Death is a horrible reality but being forgotten just makes life worthless.

[carryonmoviesthebest]

My Great Uncle was murdered on the second death march

[taringpadi]

dont need war la.... no use at all... u only making situation getting worse.... why dont u study hard and be a president of sabah... After that u can do want u want.... becoz you are president people will believe what u do...

FUCK WAR!!!!

[hodaka1000]

@taringpadi Very well said mate!

[ravemyx]

Maybe we should go to war with malaysia and take back our sabah.!!

[rOckerz04]

im a filipino.. but i know what you feel about borneo issue.. but the real issue here is the sandakan death march.. just like the bataan death march, we must show respect end honor to them by commemorating them, not fighting a piece of land.. 'ope you dont offend by comment.. lONg livE Phillippines! lOng lIve Asia!! fReedOm sHAll pRevail!

[hodaka1000]

@rOckerz04 very well said my friend.

[hoot72]

As someone who was part of the original team who did the death march in 2005 over 10 days from sandakan to ranau, some of you lot should be ashamed of yourself

The issue about if sabah belongs to the philippines or not is not the issue; the deathmarch remembers the thousands who died and were killed.

[gdt78550]

In 1939, a court judgement on the claim had handed ownership of North Borneo Sabah to the heirs of the Philippine Sultanate prior to the formation of Malaysian federation in 1963. The judgment of Chief Justice C.F.C. Makaskie of the High Court of North Borneo in the civil suit filed by the late Dayang Dayang Hadji Piandao and eight other heirs of the Sultan of Sulu Philippines, including the famous Putlih (Princess) Tarhata Kiram, upheld the validity of the claim of the heirs.

[gdt78550]

SABAH NORTH BORNEO STOLEN BY MALAYSIAN From SULTAN SULU OF PHILIPPINES, BELIEVE IT OR NOT...Please DO YOUR OWN INVESTIGATION...!!!

[FCCOOL]

my grandad was one of the six survivors,keith botterill, he was nearly dead when he escaped into the jungle were he was for a couple of months before being rescued by locals.

those yank looking guys are going in all geared up and healthy. The Japs were extremely cruel, they would cut peices of meat of the aussies and eat it infront of them, this followed by pissing on there wounds, my grandad also got locked in a cage for 40 days were he could stand up, he was only allowed out for beatings.

[le0pcy]

Hi FCCOOL..I'm from Sandakan.I'm so sorry for your grandad.But i'm glad that he's one of the survivors! Your grandad is truely amazing cos he could survive together with the other 5soldiers in such a horrible march. =]

[FCCOOL]

im glad he made it too or i wouldnt be here but its disgusting what the japanese did to the other 2500 men, especailly since the war was over, it must be one of the biggest mass murders in history but few people know about it. grandad was found and helped eventually by locals when the 6 men were barely alive.

[hodaka1000]

@FCCOOL Its the biggest mass murder of Australians in history Leon.

[matchbox22]

I'm from Sandakan. I doubt that the younger generation especialy those in Sandakan, Sabah know the infamous 'Death March'.

[wallyworld]

My father was there. Avoided the Death March because they shipped the officers out to Kuching. But he never got over it. Terrible business. Japan should be ashamed.

[gdt78550]

Sultan Sulu which leased North Borneo Sabah to the British North Borneo Co. in 1878,Kuala Lumpur continues to pay the sultanate Sulu annual rental for North Borneo Sabah,stipulated in the original lease.

Manila is taking its claim of Sabah state to the international court of Justice s Sabah has been part of a sultanate SULU in its territory, since the 1700s

Capital Sandakan - Republic of Philippines,Majority of SABAHANS Actually don't know they are Filipinos Because of Malaysian Gov't Lies

[taringpadi]

if sabah belongs to philipines is it making sabah will grow rich? and people would live in peacefully? fuck i dont see there in philipines.... only war around there.... Abu Sayap Kiling people... Sabah dont have such violence rebelious.....

[zaviatorz]

hey fagot don't just rely on media about the war in the Philippines bcos it is just in an isolated places in Mindanao and the main reason war exist bcos of Muslim Terrorist.

I pressumed ur an ignorant fagot abt Philippines,maybe Philippines is more peaceful and beautiful than ur fuckin country

[SabahPhilippines]

HEY TARINGPADI ARE U THAT STUPID ?

Dont you know that MALAYSIAN SHIP PROVIDE GUNS and bullets TO PHILIPPINE MUSLIM into MINDANAO SULU to promote violence in MINDANAO ISLAND..!!! in EXCHANGE to keep SABAH out of conflict - SO LEARN IT FIRST next time before you SHOW YOUR STUPIDITY & IGNORANT brain ONLINE

[hoot72]

@SabahPhilippines

Many countries provided arms and weapons to the Abu Syaff. Don't know why you need to blame Malaysia but if I were you, I would start with Libya first.

[liltemax]

borneo used 2 b part of philiphines

[hodaka1000]

@liltemax And the philiphines was part of Spain. So what.