September 05, 2005
there goes
my hard earned dosh. yep, bought these thingy's earlier today:
i'm surprised that a record shop on this islet does carry this album. bless.
i meant to buy this month's ago but didn't get round to.
12th in the inspector rebus series. it's my third in the collection so far. mind, it's not because he's [also] scottish.
the summary, nicked off the publisher's website:
The Singapore Chinese Massacre by Ralph Modder
After the British Had Surrendered Singapore to the Japanese on 15 February 1942, Lt. Gen. Yamashita, commander of the victorious 25th Army, ordered that male Chinese had to 'register' at various centres. The purpose was to discover 'anti-Japanese elements among the Chinese population', in particular Chinese guerrilla-volunteers who had fought courageously when the Japanese invaded Singapore. Thousands of Chinese were picked out at random by the Kempeitai, the dreaded Japanese secret police. The victims were taken to remote places, mostly beaches and shot.
A Bristish War Crimes Court in Singapore in 1947 sentenced several senior Japanese army officers to death or to long prison terms for their parts in the massacre, also known as 'Sook Ching' Massacre ('Sook Ching' meaning 'purification by purge' Chinese) The Japanese had admitted that 5,000 were executed while there were claims the number was about 50,000. The actual number is unknown.
wee island chinese men were massacred just because:
1. all were alleged to have financially supported their bethren in china - 99.98% were too pissed poor to care about some folk who they had no blood relations with
2. they worked for the british colonial masters - em jap's didn't like the idea of asian's servin the white man; that's why they closed their doors to foreigner's during the wotsit [meiji?] period, saved for a handful of dutch trader's
3. they were presumed anti-jap - duh?
i could actually demand compensation from the jap government for the death's of a maternal great-uncle [he was a teacher, his bro escaped in the nick of time]; and presumed rape and subsequent murder of my paternal aunt in the jungles of burma. all causin utter distress to my relative's.
yet this very same bunch of scumbag still refuse to acknowlege their past atrocities 60 year's on eh? oh, to add insult to injury, there is a war memorial at the japanese cemetary tucked somewhere on this islet.
what the effin fuck?
as enscribed by the letter b @ September 5, 2005 02:54 PM | someone's pingedyes somewhere in the deepest boondocks of that country. i simply don't understand the way asian minds work, including those who think it's nothing wrong having a war memorial dedicating to em bastards at the jap cemetary here.
as blahed by the letter b @ September 6, 2005 06:01 PMAnd now they have erected a statue of a kamikaze pilot to commemorate their 'glorious' dead. Somewhere in the Phillipines, I think.
as blahed by krip @ September 6, 2005 04:57 PMone thing's for sure is those books will collect cobwebs before i get round to read em. as for the cd's, it's money well spent!
as blahed by the letter b @ September 6, 2005 12:25 PMOooh, like the books. Krip would like the music. Hmmm, I tolerate it pretty well.
as blahed by "Alice" @ September 6, 2005 12:15 PM