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'I was chopped'
WWII survivor's near-beheading tale adds to history of Japanese Occupation
By K.C. Vijayan

Mr Yew and eight others were taken from their dorm at night to be beheaded one by one the next day. He survived.
IN EARLY 1942, Mr Yew Kian Chang and eight other men in their 20s were roused by a squad of Japanese military police from their dormitory in Bukit Timah.
They were marched, hands tied, to a nearby railway track and made to squat there.
The next day, they were beheaded one by one.


I feel sorry for the victims who never made it through the Japanese Occupation because of how brutally treated they were by the Japanese and could not do anything to help themselves against them. It felt good that at least one of the nine people involved survived the execution.