Operation Clean Up ( Sook Ching Operation ) (18 February to 4 March 1942 )

The Sook Ching massacre was a systematic extermination of perceived hostile elements among the Chinese in Singapore by the Japanese military during the Japanese occupation of Singapore , after the British colony surrendered on 15 February 1942 following the Battle of Singapore . The Sook Ching operation was later extended to include the Chinese in Malaya as well . The massacre took place from 18 February to 4 March 1942 at various places in region . The term of  Sook Ching means " a purge through cleansing ' in chinese . The Japanese referred it as  Kakyōshukusei or Shingapōru Daikenshō . The current Japanese term for the massacre is Shingapōru Kakyōgyakusatsujiken . No dispute in scholarly circles that the massacre had took place but the Japanese and Singaporean sources disagree about the death toll .




Website : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sook_Ching_massacre ( Date Accessed : 14 February 2013 )