Wednesday 14 March 2012

History

On the 17th of February 2012, our group of 6 people accompanied by many others made our trip to Changi Spit by bus. We arrived at Changi Beach at 3.50 p.m. 
The picture shown above is the map of the spit. It was a cloudy afternoon and it was not the high tide period. The moon was absent. 
Sook Ching at Changi Spit
Map of Singapore.

Changi is found on the right side of the map.

Information and History of Changi Beach
Changi Beach is a beach park located at the North-eastern tip of Singapore. It is 28 hectares in size and it is one of the oldest coastal parks in singapore. Retaining, the Kampong or village atmosphere of the 60s and 70s. The park is approximately 3.3 km long with stretches of sandy beaches between changi point and changi ferry road.
During the Japanese Occupation, Changi Beach was one of the locations where the massacre took place. It was the Sook-Ching point of the victims of Bukit Timah and Stevens road. Changi Beach park was the site of one of the most brutal killings in Singapore's history. On 20th 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 massacre, with another one at Tanah Merah.



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