DID THEY HAVE TO MURDER LIKE THIS??

THIS NEEDS TO BE READ:-

Having survived the sinking of their ship 'to safety', the Vyner Brooke on the 14th February 1942, a group of Australian nurses and others on the ship managed to reach Banka Island, some by clinging to the liferafts.

Survivor Vivian Bullwinkle tells the full story of what happens on the excellent site by Barb Angell http://www.angellpro.com.au/vynerbrooke.htm  An extract follows:-

Minutes later the Japanese detachment reappeared, they sat down in front of the women and began to clean their rifles and bloodied bayonets. When done, they ominously motioned for the women to stand up. Not one woman cried, not one woman whimpered and not one of them tried to run away. They had no weapons and they knew that the men from the beach were dead. They also knew that they would not be rescued. It was pointless to run and, besides, where could they go?

“Soon, the soldiers began pushing them towards the knee-high surf. They stood in a straight line - twenty-two nurses and one elderly civilian woman - facing the horizon. The nurses still wearing their Red Cross emblems on their sleeves, the symbol which, supposedly, should have protected them. Again, no one spoke, no one wept, and when they reach waist deep water, the Japanese opened fire with a machine gun. They were machine gunned from behind”

Read the full story and of other atrocities against those helpless to defend themselves.  Click on the following link: http://www.angellpro.com.au