Think again......seriously. No one in Singapore was safe during the Japanese Occupation because some soldiers or officers at that time would commit crimes against people who have no power against them and took advantage of them.
This includes the following: Looting, mass killings, forced labour, sexual slavery, human experimentation, cannibalism and torture for critical information on Prisoners of War.
During the Japanese Occupation, women especially would be captured and be treated as sex slaves to the Japanese soldiers or officers. My grandmother was young at time and was vulnerable to the Japanese. To prevent herself from being captured, she had to change her name to a boy's name and have to look like a Malay tomboy, this would not let the Japanese from suspecting her as a sex slave or a young healthy Chinese male with information
Forced labour was also common in Singapore, POW's especially were sent to Thailand to work on the infamous Death Railway known as the Burma Railway but rarely sent male Chinese because of the work done by the Sook Ching Operation.
The Burma Railway aka Death Railway (Above)
And lastly 1 of the most cruel war crime that was common was human experimentation. Meaning you used dead or LIVE homo-sapiens (humans) in their own practices or research. Examples include practicing shooting a person's head off, forced taking untested drugs and training of close combat (down below for example) by using a dead person
A Japanese soldier practicing close combat on a dead Chinese male (Above)
Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes (Source and image)
http://world-war-2.wikia.com/wiki/File:History-of-thailand-death-railway-1941.jpg (Image)
Date accessed: 17 Feb 2013
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