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Sandakan is the second-largest city in Sabah, East Malaysia, on the north-eastern coast of Borneo. It is located on the east coast of the island and was the former capital of British North Borneo.
The area is also infamous as the site of a World War II Japanese airfield, built by the forced labour of 6,000 Javanese civilians and 2,400 Allied prisoners of war. In 1945 the surviving prisoners were sent on the Sandakan Death Marches; only 6 of them survived the war, all of whom had escaped.. Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandakan, accessed on 2008/10/21, 19:05.) |
Sandakan No.8 - the film