Australian POW in Sandakan - Documentary
Australian POW in Sandakan
After the fall of Singapore and Borneo to the Japanese during World Wart II, a Prisoner of War Camp was established just outside of Sandakan, British North Borneo (now Sabah, Malaysia), to house approximately 750 British and more than 1650 Australian prisoners who were sent from Singapore to the camp during the period 1942-43.
Australian prisoners were sent to Sandakan in 1942 to build an airstrip. At first they were treated reasonably well. Gradually, however, rations were reduced and bashings and torture increased. By late 1944, with Allied forces advancing toward Borneo, the Japanese decided to send about 2,000 Australian and British prisoners westward to Ranau, a journey of 250 kilometres through the dense jungles of Borneo's rugged interior. Weak and sick prisoners staggered along jungle tracks. Many died on the way, their bodies never recovered. Those unable to continue were killed; those too weak to march had been left behind in Sandakan, where all died or were killed. 1787 Australians were killed, and only six POWs survived the Japanese atrocities by escaping. They were found alive when the war finally ended in 1945.
In the years that followed the horror stories of human depravity and the atrocities committed by the Japanese at Sandakan POW camp would come to light considered by many as one of the most devastating chapters of the Pacific War.
On August 15, 2015, families of the fallen heroes travel to Sandakan to take part and observe the memorial service to remember their love ones. More than 2000 Australian and British prisoners of war died in the Sandakan Prison Camp and in the infamous Sandakan-Ranau Death marches during the Second World War. More than 200 people were present at the Memorial service. Many foreign dignitaries including Sir Peter Cosgrove, the Governor General of Australia, Ms Vicky Treadell, the British High Commissioner to Malaysia, and Mr. Rod Smith, the Australian High Commissioner to Malaysia, attended the solemn service which began at 7.00 am and lasted about two hours. The memorial service is held in Sandakan every year on August 15 .
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SANDAKAN - Borneo, Sabah, Malaysia
Sandakan formerly known at various times as Elopura, is a town in Sabah, Malaysia. It is the second largest town in Sabah after Kota Kinabalu. It is located on the east coast of the state in the administrative centre of Sandakan Division and was the former capital of British North Borneo. The town has an estimated population of 157,330 while the surrounding municipal area has a total population of 396,290.
Before the founding of Sandakan, Sulu Archipelago was the source of dispute between Spain and the Sultanate of Sulu for economic dominance in the region. Sandakan began to prosper when the British North Borneo Company (BNBC) started to build a new settlement in 1879, developing it into an active commercial and trading centre as well as making it the main administrative centre for North Borneo.
Sandakan is one of the main ports for oil, tobacco, coffee, sago, and timber exports. Other economic activities include fishing, ship building, eco-tourism, and manufacturing. Among the tourist attractions in Sandakan are Sandakan Heritage Museum, Sandakan Cultural Festival, Sandakan War Memorial, Sepilok Orang Utan Sanctuary, Turtle Islands National Park, and Gomantong Caves.
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List of Best Things to do in Sandakan, Malaysia
Sandakan Memorial Park
Turtle Island Park
Orang Utan Sanctuary
Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre
Labuk Bay Proboscis Monkey Sanctuary
Sandakan Rainforest Discovery Centre (RDC)
Deramakot Forest Reserve
Puu Jih Shih Buddhist Temple
Agnes Newton Keith Home
Gomantong Cave Sandakan
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Sandakan was founded in the 15th Century during the Bruneian Empire but was completely destroyed during the Second World War. Although today it is a modern city, it has very few tourist specific landmarks to visit. Nevertheless, the city is very pedestrian-friendly with a lovely 2.5km heritage trail past some significant landmarks and with great views. The friendly and good-natured people are what really make Sandakan worth a short stay.
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Most people, however, only pass through Sandakan to see the famous Borneo Orangutans at the Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre which is less than 20kms outside of Sandakan and rescues and rehabilitates Orangutans.
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A laid-back city known for its gastronomic delights and wildlife sanctuaries, Sandakan is also home to landmark moments in Sabah's history. The second largest city in the state boasts a colourful spectrum of people, cultures and cuisines.
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Sandakan, Borneo - Japanese Sandakan Death Camps & Death March Australian POWs
THE SANDAKAN DEATH CAMPS AND DEATH MARCH
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To protect the oilfields that they had captured on Borneo, the Japanese Imperial Army decided to build a military airfield at the port of Sandakan using forced prisoner of war labour. Fifteen hundred prisoners, mostly Australians who had surrendered to the Japanese at Singapore, arrived at Sandakan on 18 July 1942. The accommodation for the prisoners was appalling. Their water was drawn from a filthy creek, and their food was mostly a very small quantity of vegetables and a couple of handfuls of dirty rice each day.
Initially, security at the Sandakan camp was lax and several prisoners escaped into the jungle in September 1942. All of the prisoners who had remained in the camp were punished for the escapes by denial of food for a week. Camp security and punishments were then toughened. The Japanese Army guards routinely shot any prisoner who attempted to escape or was recaptured. Minor infringements, such as collecting a coconut to supplement the starvation diet while on a working party, or failing to bow deeply enough to a camp guard, were punished by severe beatings or locking the offending prisoners in cramped, open cages in the hot sun. The number of days spent in the cages was related to the gravity of the offence. Exercise for the caged offenders comprised being taken out of the cage and beaten up by the guards, and then being returned to the cage.
A prisoner suspected of building or operating a makeshift radio or smuggling medicine into the camp could find himself in the hands of the greatly feared Kempei Tai, a Japanese military secret police unit that employed beatings and torture to extract confessions. Torture methods included burning flesh with lighted cigarettes, driving metal tacks under the nails of a prisoner, and forcing water down a prisoners throat until his stomach was distended. The Kempei Tai torturers would then stamp on the unfortunate prisoner's distended stomach. See Lord Russell's Knights of Bushido at pages 195-198.*
The arduous labour on the airstrip and seriously inadequate diet soon undermined the health of the prisoners. Most of the Australian prisoners became horribly emaciated from starvation, and many exhibited the bloated stomach associated with beriberi (a vitamin deficiency). During selection parades for working parties, the Japanese guards refused to accept the opinions of prisoner medical officers but would test for the presence of tropical ulcers by kicking at the bandaged leg of a prisoner. A plea to the Japanese for increased and better quality food rations by prisoner medical officers was dismissed by the Japanese commander who made clear his deep contempt for combatants who surrendered.
In early 1943, more prisoners of war arrived at Sandakan to work on the airstrip. These were mainly British.
As progress on the construction of the airfield slowed because of the increasing sickness and debility of the prisoner/labourers, the Japanese responded by increasing their brutality but not the meagre rations. To force the prisoners to work harder, the Japanese brought in a gang of tough older army guards who soon became known to the prisoners as The Bashers. These guards always carried wooden pick handles or bamboo canes and appeared to take great pleasure in beating the prisoners whenever the whim took them. The Bashers often left their victims unconscious, or with broken arms or legs. Jim Milner led a work party of Australian prisoners working on the airstrip, and he was bashed by the guards on many occasions. He recalls:
We had to bow to all the Japanese officers, which was very degrading. And any Japanese, no matter what his rank, could bash you if he felt like it, and they used to take great delight in it.
In August 1943, with the apparent intention of facilitating control of the enlisted men by depriving them of their leaders, most of the officer prisoners were moved from Sandakan to Kuching on the western side of Borneo. After the officers were taken away, conditions for the 2,500 enlisted prisoners at Sandakan deteriorated sharply. Starvation level rations were further reduced, and even the sick prisoners were forced to work on the airstrip. By the middle of 1944, Allied advances were posing a threat to Japanese control of Borneo, and additional Japanese troops began arriving in northern Borneo to defend the vital oilfields. With additional Japanese mouths to feed, rations for the prisoners were cut again. The Japanese area commanders were aware that they were starving the prisoners of war but took the view that weak and sick prisoners would be no threat to them if Allied forces landed to liberate northern Borneo. The deliberate starving of prisoners, together with the heavy labour and beatings, caused the death rate to soar.
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1. Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilition Centre
Address:
Batu 14, Jalan Labuk Sandakan, Sabah WDT200, 9009 Sandakan, Sabah.
Call:
O89-633587
Email:
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2. Labuk Bay Proboscis Monkey Sanctuary
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Address:
Labuk Bay Proboscis Monkey Sanctuary, Yet Hing Oil Palm Estate, Off Jalan Labuk, Sandakan.
Call:
089-672133
089-672177
089-674880
3. Agnes Keith House
Call:
088-225033
088-253199
4. Sandakan Memorial Park
Address:
Majlis Perbandaran Sandakan, P.O.BOX 221, 90702 Sandakan, Sabah.
Call:
089-275400
089-217343
089-272112
5. Sandakan Crocodile Farm
Call:
089-660666
6. Rainforest Discovery Centre
Address:
Rainforest Discovery Centre (RDC) Forest Research Centre, Sepilok, P.O.BOX 1407, 90715 Sandakan, Sabah
Email:
rdsepilok@yahoo.com
Call:
089-533780
089-533781
089-535201
7. Kinabatangan River Cruise
8. Selingan Turtle Island
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9. Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre
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Address:
Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre, PPM 219, Elopura, 9000, Sandakan, Sabah
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info.bsbcc@gmail.com
Call:
089-534491
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The Malaysian state of Sabah on the island of Borneo is now home to hundreds of thousands of foreign migrants from the Southern Philippines and Indonesia. Foreigners now make up the largest single group in the state, a source of great anger among the indigenous population. A Royal Commission of Inquiry is looking into the causes for the huge surge in the state's population with much evidence pointing to people close to the government having fast tracked many mostly Muslim migrants to citizenship to shift Sabah's demographics in favour of the ruling coalition, BN.
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During World War II 2500 Allied prisoners were held at Sandakan POW camp in North Borneo.Australian prisoners were sent to Sandakan in 1942 to build an airstrip. At first they were treated reasonably well. Gradually, however, rations were reduced and bashings anf torture increased.By late 1944, with Allied forces advancing toward Borneo, the Japanese decided to send about 2,000 Australian and British prisoners westward to Ranau, in Borneo's rugged interior. Weak and sick prisoners staggered for about 260 kilometres along jungle tracks. Many died on the way, their bodies never recovered. Those unable to continue were killed; those too weak to march had been left behind in Sandakan, where all died or were killed. Only 6 POWs survived the Japanese atrocities, 1787 Australians were killed. The 6 POWs who survived only survived due to their escape .