This photograph shows a scene at one of the mass graves of the Operation Sook Ching victims. A man wearing rubber gloves and boots is squatting down, washing something in a metal basin containing muddied water. Next to the man on the ground is a mat where skulls and bones are neatly placed. This photograph was probably taken in 1966 or 1967. Date of creation estimated. Title devised by Library staff.

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All rights reserved. James M. Punter

Subjects

• Architecture and Landscape>>Streets and Places
• Personalities>>Biographies>>War Personalities>>War Victims
• Ethnic Communities>>Customs and Traditions
• Exhumation--Singapore--Photographs
• Mass burials--Singapore--Photographs