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Kota Kinabalu: Matnin Matzin, 75, the son of Matzin Ani, the boiler man on the train which transported the Double Tenth detainees to Petagas, said Derasik’s account matches what his dad told him of the massacre.

Taiwan island’s regional leader Tsai Ing-wen on Tuesday said that despite “external challenges,” she’s willing to develop with the Chinese mainland based on a mutually acceptable foundation for interaction and maintain peaceful and stable cross-Straits relations in her “Double Tenth” speech.

Island’s former president Ma Ying-jeou decries slogan describing holiday as ‘Taiwan National Day’, with no mention of the Republic of China, and accuses ruling DPP of violating constitution with name change.

In 1943, Operation Jaywick sent 14 men from Australia on a mission to sink Japanese ships in Singapore.

Taipei’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party seeks to focus on security ahead of elections in November, but remarks might trigger unintentional incidents that could undermine cross-strait peace, analysts say.

A veteran journalist calls on historians and ordinary people to take steps to preserve the historical record.

AMONG those who carried out the decapitations was the son of a Japanese businessmen killed by the guerrillas on the night of the uprising. He was said to have wielded his Japanese military sword and hacked repeatedly at one of the prisoners (Mochizuki 1995: 60). Not much else is known of what transpired at Petagas after that, but news of the executions soon spread to Jesselton and the entire west coast. It had a profound impact on the morale and spirit of the people, striking fear in them. At th...

ON HIS side Kwok had about one hundred of his Kinabalu band and could count on nearly twice that number of islanders. Very few of his men had any military training. Peter and Dewa Singh were ex-policemen and Li Tet Phui and Jules Stephens had some part-time experience as soldiers.  The rest were new to the business. No written orders of the force have survived. Very likely there were none. People have taken different views of what Kwok’s plan really was.  Some think he intended t...

1943 It was too much for a small place like Jesselton. Any Chinese running on the road at the sight of Japanese was shot at. Many innocent people lost their lives. Many lost their properties. To cut the story short all the rebels were ultimately rounded up. And some gave themselves in.  All their records were taken possession of. One night the leading Chinese were called in for a party (dinner) and were arrested and imprisoned. Soon they got all the facts by third degree methods and torture...

In October 1943 Sabah lay under the iron heel of the Japanese. The armies of Japan had invaded Borneo in January 1942 as part of the Japanese war of conquest in the Far East which had begun on December 7th, 1941 with the victory by the forces of the Emperor over those of the United States of America at Pearl Harbour, Hawaii.  Labuan was taken on January 1st, 1942. At that time Great Britain was engaged in a struggle for its very life both in Europe against the Germans, and in the Far East a...