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The Changi Museum

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The Changi Museum
The Changi Museum
The Changi Museum
The Changi Museum
The Changi Museum
The Changi Museum
The Changi Museum
The Changi Museum
The Changi Museum
The Changi Museum
The Changi Museum
The Changi Museum
The Changi Museum
The Changi Museum
The Changi Museum
Phone:
+65 6214 2451

Hours:
Sunday9:30am - 5pm
Monday9:30am - 5pm
Tuesday9:30am - 5pm
Wednesday9:30am - 5pm
Thursday9:30am - 5pm
Friday9:30am - 5pm
Saturday9:30am - 5pm


The Selarang Barracks incident, also known as the Barrack Square incident or the Selarang Square Squeeze, was a revolt of British and Australian prisoners-of-war interned in a Japanese camp in Changi, Singapore. The events started on 30 August 1942 after the Japanese recaptured four POWs escaped from the Selarang Barracks camps, and required that the other prisoners sign a pledge not to escape. After they refused, they were forced to crowd in the areas around the barracks square for nearly five days with little water and no sanitation. The executions of the recaptured POWs failed to break the men. The commanders, however, finally capitulated on 5 September when their men started to fall ill and die from dysentery. Upon signing the pledge, the men were allowed to return to the barracks buildings.
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