Who

What

When

Where

The Japanese

Removing the
Chinese in
Singapore by
disappearing
them. The
purging
campaign to
eliminate antiJapanese
elements.

15th
February
1942, right
after
assuming
control over
Singapore.

Singapore The
Japanese
troops
encountered
many

targeted:
Chinese
Anti Japanese
People with tattoos
People who wrote
their names in
English
Supported the
Chinese
Members of
volunteer force
communist
looters
possessing weapons
men aged 18-50

It is a Japanese
military
operation

Why

How

The Chinese and those

suspected of being antiJapanese were rounded up
and massacred after a
screening and inspection
frustrations exercise. if you were lucky
and passed the inspection,
with the
Chinese in you collected the much
valued "examined" chop
China.
(on the arm, face, piece of
paper or clothing) to show
They used they passed through the
screening and inspection
violence to exercise.

control the
people

On 18 February 1942, all

Chinese males between
the ages 18 and 50 were
ordered to report to various
screening centres for
examination. There were
no standard procedures for
conducting the mass
screening. It was done in
and random manner, and
many innocent people
taken away. At some
centres, there were hooded
men (spies) before whom
the people had to march
past. If any of the hooded
men nodded his head, the
person so marked would be
marched off to a parked
lorry nearby. The men in
the lorries were taken to
remote areas such as
Punggol, Changi and
Bedok where they were
shot.Bodies and
skeletons in mass graves
surfaced after the Sook
Ching operations.