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===Execution=== There were several sites for the killings, the most notable ones being [[Changi Beach Park|Changi Beach]], [[Punggol Point]] and [[Sentosa]] (or Pulau Belakang Mati). {| class="wikitable" |- ! Massacre sites !! Description |- | [[Punggol Point]] || The Punggol Point Massacre saw about 300 to 400 Chinese shot on 28 February 1942 by the Hojo Kempei firing squad. The victims were some of the 1,000 Chinese men detained by the Japanese after a door-to-door search along Upper Serangoon Road. Several of these had tattoos, a sign that they might be [[triad (underground society)|triad]] members. |- | [[Changi Beach]]/Changi Spit Beach || On 20 February 1942, 66 Chinese males were lined up along the edge of the sea and shot by the military police. The beach was the first of the killing sites of the Sook Ching. Victims were from the Bukit Timah/Stevens Road area. |- | Changi Road 8-mile section (ms) || Massacre site found at a plantation area (formerly Samba Ikat village) contained remains of 250 victims from the vicinity. |- | [[Hougang]] 8 ms || Six lorry loads of people were reported to have been massacred here. |- | Katong 7 ms || 20 trenches for burying the bodies of victims were dug here. |- | Beach opposite 27 Amber Road || Two lorry loads of people were said to have been massacred here. The site later became a car park. |- | Tanah Merah Beach/Tanah Merah Besar Beach || 242 victims from Jalan Besar were massacred here. The site later became part of the Changi airport runway. |- | Sime Road off Thomson Road || Massacre sites found near a golf course and villages in the vicinity. |- | Katong, East Coast Road|| 732 victims from Telok Kurau School |- | Siglap area || Massacre site near Bedok South Avenue/Bedok South Road (previously known as Jalan Puay Poon) |- | Belakang Mati Beach, off the Sentosa Golf Course|| Surrendered British gunners awaiting Japanese internment buried some 300 bullet-ridden corpses washed up on the shore of Sentosa. They were civilians who were transported from the docks at Tanjong Pagar to be killed at sea nearby.<ref name="eresources.nlb.gov.sg"/> |} In a quarterly newsletter, the National Heritage Board published the account of the life story of a survivor named Chia Chew Soo, whose father, uncles, aunts, brothers and sisters were bayoneted one by one by Japanese soldiers in Simpang Village.<ref>{{cite web|title=Newsletter of the National Heritage Board April β June 2003 p. 5 Memories of War β National Archives of Singapore|url=http://www.nhb.gov.sg/resources/Online_Newsletter/heritageVol9Issue2.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717031343/http://www.nhb.gov.sg/resources/Online_Newsletter/heritageVol9Issue2.pdf|archive-date=17 July 2011}}</ref>
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