Muar massacre

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The Muar massacre was a World War II atrocity in which Japanese forces killed large numbers of Australian and Indian prisoners of war and local civilians near Muar in British Malaya in 1942.

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Label Occurrences
Muar massacre canonical 1
Parit Sulong massacre 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf massacre
war crime
aftermath strengthened Allied accounts of Japanese atrocities
conflict World War II
conflictSidePerpetrator Axis powers
surface form: Axis Powers
conflictSideVictim Allied Powers of World War I
surface form: Allied Powers
countryAtTime British Malaya
date 1942
historicalPeriod World War II
surface form: Second World War
legalClassification violation of laws and customs of war
location British Malaya
Johor
near Muar
memorializedIn Australian war histories
Indian military histories
method bayoneting
shooting
summary execution
motive brutalization of prisoners
terror against local population
partOf Battle of Malaya
surface form: Japanese invasion of Malaya
perpetrator Imperial Japanese Army
perpetratorNationality Japan
region Southeast Asia
relatedEvent Battle of Muar
Japanese occupation of Malaya
typeOfKilling extrajudicial killing
victim Australian prisoners of war
Indian prisoners of war
local civilians
victimMilitaryUnitNationality Australia
India
victimNationality Australian
Indian
Malay
victimStatus civilians
prisoners of war
warTheater Battle of Malaya
surface form: Malayan Campaign

Pacific War

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Japanese occupation of Malaya hasPart Muar massacre
Battle of Muar notableEvent Muar massacre
this entity surface form: Parit Sulong massacre