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More war graves beneath grounds of Bukit Brown?
Bukit Brown may have been dumping grounds for Outram Gaol prisoners who died during the Japanese Occupation
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Tomb researcher Raymond Goh (back) with tomb keeper Soh Hung Seng at a valley at the Block 4 area of Bukit Brown Cemetery, where some people believe war victims might lie. More research and archaeological work need to be conducted.
ST PHOTO: SEAH KWANG PENG
Melody Zaccheus
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Hidden beneath the dirt of Bukit Brown Cemetery are the remains of thousands of men, women and children unceremoniously dumped into unmarked graves, the victims of a brutal war.
Historical records tell of trucks with bodies piled high in the back, and witnesses described how medicos would lift the bodies on stretchers, one by one, before tipping them over into open pits.
