Sook Ching Operation (18 February 1942)

           The "Sook Ching Operation" began from 18th of February to 4th of March 1942.
    The operation is a systematic way of exterminating the Chinese living in both Singapore
     and Malaya by the Japanese. This is one of the causes for the arrival of the Japanese.
    "Operation Sook Ching"is also known as "Operation Clean Up". It is also called as
     "Sook Ching Massacre".

           Hirofumi Hayashi, a professor at a university called "Kanto Gakuin University",
      claimed that the Chinese in Singapore were regarded as anti-Japanese. even before
       the landing of the Japanese Military. Thus, the eliminating of the Chinese
       begun. Finally, the Japanese surrendered in the year 1947.
 
            The British arrived and held a war crime trial for the perpetrators of the "Sook 
       Ching Operation". Thus, the Operation came to an end.



        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sook_Ching_massacre#Aftermath