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	Sandakan Death March; Japanese inhumanity
		In 1945, when the Japanese started to realise that the war may have been lost, and the Allies were closing in, the emaciated prisoners were force marched, in three separate marches, to the village of Ranau in the jungle, 250 km away, under the shadows of Mount Kinabalu.
		The third march which comprised the last of the prisoners from the Sandakan camp contained 537 prisoners.
		Lt-Colonel Suga was formerly Commandant of Prisoner of War Compounds at Kuching and Sandakan.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-battles/ww2/sandakan.htm (1295 words)

	Sandakan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sandakan is the second-largest town in the state of Sabah, East Malaysia, on the north-eastern of island of Borneo.
		It is the administrative centre of Sandakan Division and was the former capital of British North Borneo.
		In January 2003, the Sandakan Harbour Square, an urban renewal project, was launched in an attempt to revive the town centre as the commercial hub in Sandakan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sandakan (1060 words)

	Sandakan Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sandakan Division is an administrative division of Sabah, east Malaysia, on the island of Borneo.
		With an area of 28,205 square kilometers, it occupies 38.3% of Sabah's territory, and is thus the largest of the five administrative divisions of Sabah.
		Sandakan port is the second largest after Kota Kinabalu.The port serves as a major timber export gateway.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sandakan_Division (106 words)

	Windows to the soul at Sandakan - Opinion - www.smh.com.au
		In front of the War Memorial's Sandakan wall is a fl couch on which you sit, in the quiet gloom, and think of all those dead men and what they went through.
		Sandakan is one of the least known - and commemorated - wartime atrocities.
		The Australian High Commission in Kuala Lumpur organised their presence, heads bowed, at the Sandakan Park's stark, fl granite memorial plinth, three metres tall, with its only inscription: "In remembrance of all those who suffered and died here, on the death marches and at Ranau." It is a very moving memorial.
	www.smh.com.au /news/Opinion/Windows-to-the-soul-at-Sandakan/2005/04/29/1114635748667.html (2123 words)

	Introduction to Sabah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		For the purpose of administration, Sabah is divided into 5 divisions, viz., the Kudat Division, the West Coast Division, the Interior Division, the Sandakan Division and the Tawau Division.
		Sandakan is a major town in the east with a population of about 348,930.
		As in Sandakan, agriculture is the main economic activity, with oil palm and cocoa being the major crops cultivated.
	www.sabah.gov.my /didr/english/IntroSabah.htm (604 words)

	History
		Stotter, who had in the meantime been appointed to Sandakan, was sent to negotiate a financial settlement with Kuching.
		Already in 1923, partly realizing that the fathers in Sandakan could no longer cope with the volume of work, partly understanding the desperate need to have professionals heading the school in Sandakan, he contacted the La Salle brothers to take over the school but unfortunately nothing came of it.
		Look at the faithfulness of Fr.Stotter as he hopped between Sandakan, Kudat, Marudu and Tawau, finding the Catholics and their leaders, seeking catechists and helpers, struggling to build the first chapel, school and living quarters.
	www.members.tripod.com /catholicflash/html/history.htm (4900 words)

	Sabah - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Sabah consists of five administrative divisions, which are in turn divided into a total of 23 districts.
		Sandakan - gateway to the Sepilok Orang Utan Sanctuary and Kinabatangan River
		Sabah, Geography, History, Philippine claim, Politics, Administrative divisions, Population and ethnic composition, Economy, Tourism, Arts and entertainment, References, External links, States of Malaysia, Disputed territories and Former British colonies.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Sabah (1676 words)

	H-Net* Sabah Wanita meeting turns ugly
		According to the delegates, the trouble started when a group of observers in the rear of the hall booed and disrupted permanent chairman Junaidah Aji as she was disclosing the number of members and branches eligible to vote.
		The division Wanita head Armani Mahiruddin, however, asked the delegates to take a vote on whether to put off the elections to which the reply from the floor was that to go ahead with it.
		Musa, the Libaran division chairman, told The Star that he was leaving the fracas to the police to deal with.
	www.mail-archive.com /hizb@hizbi.net/msg24424.html (543 words)

	Don Wall
		Attended by more than 700 Sandakan relatives and friends from all states of Australia, the Service was led by the late Father John Brendan Rogers OFM OAM, formerly Chaplain at Sandakan and Kuching Prisoner of War camps.
		Such was the feeling at that Memorial Service, that a decision was taken on the spot, to establish permanent Sandakan Memorials throughout the Eastern States of Australia to be located in the regions or districts from which significant numbers of Sandakan POWS had originated.
		A brass ribbon demonstrates the 265km route of the infamous death marches from Sandakan Camp westward to the village of Ranau in the foothills of Mt. Kinabalu.
	www.donwall.com.au /sandakan.html (880 words)

	Life In The Travel Lane: Asia, Part Two: Malaysian Borneo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Our plan was to tour the perimeter of the state from east to south to west and then north, covering the cities of Sandakan, Semporna, Tawau, and finally the capital city of Kota Kinabalu, plus points in between.
		Sandakan is essentially a port and fishing town, with palm oil production in the outlying areas.
		After a couple of restful days in Sandakan, we flew to Tawau on the southeastern coast of Sabah, intent on heading for Semporna, further south and east on the very tip of the state of Sabah.
	travel.nwblog.com /?PostID=143 (4914 words)

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		Sandakan, situated on the East Coast of Sabah was founded by William B. Pryer on 21st June 1879.
		In 1884, when Sandakan became the capital of British North Borneo, the population had increased to 3771 people consisting of a mixed population with the Chinese and Sulus being the two largest ethnic groups.
		When the war ended, Sandakan town was nearly totally destroyed, partly from the bombings in the process of liberation and the rest by the Japanese.
	www.icruise.com /cruise_content/port_Sandakan.shtml (382 words)

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		In the central division, meters that are removed are being stockpiled.
		Division of the Central Division Commercial Operation 3.30 The commercial operation at the Central Division in Kota Kinabalu should be divided into a minimum of two and possibly three separate areas.
		An additional benefit of this division would be to make each office of a comparable size to the others, allowing for easier standardization of software packages and hardware equipment when the customer system is computerized.
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	SabahTravelGuide.Com, The ultimate travel guide to Sabah, Borneo
		Firstly Sandakan has taken the initiative to blaze the trail for others to followed, being recognized as the State’s first heritage trail to be officially launched.
		Sandakan is also home to the Sam Sing Kung Temple (constructed in 1885) one of the oldest standing buildings found in Sabah.
		The trail is the fruit of labour of the Sandakan Heritage Trail Committee chaired by Lai King Hang under the auspices of the Sandakan Tourism Committee headed by Datuk John Lim.
	www.sabahtravelguide.com /news/details.asp?newsid=76 (912 words)

	Sandakan: The Last March (Revised 5th ed) - Books - Travel Centre - www.wildasia.net
		It was en-route from Balikpapan to Sandakan in the Hercules aircraft that I decided this Edition would be published together with the autographs of all those who participated on the tour.
		The Memorial at Sandakan was first erected on the initiative of Bruce Ruxton, A.M., ORE. Apart from the official Pilgrimage group, about one hundred people who also attended were from other independent groups organised by the R.S.L. Many of the Service personnel present were not aware of the immense nature of the tragedy.
		Sandakan - a name now synonymous with cruelty and brutality inflicted on sick and defenceless people - represents the worst tragedy suffered by Australians during World War II.
	wildasia.net /main/product.cfm?productID=1019 (322 words)

	www.welcometowallyworld.com - Sandakan P.O.W. Camp
		The 8th Division of the A.I.F. was shipped to Malaya and Singapore in 1940 to defend those states against the Japanese.
		He survived Sandakan by being lucky enough to be one of the officers shipped off to another Japanese P.O.W. camp at Kuching which was eventually liberated in September 1945.
		The last prisoner of war died at Sandakan on the day the Emperor of Japan told his people the war was over and they would be surrendering.
	www.welcometowallyworld.com /sandakan-pow-camp (1424 words)

	DVA - Publications - Laden, Fevered, Starved
		Their sections on Sandakan were based on the testimony of the six survivors and others who had escaped in earlier years from among those Australians brought to the area.
		This pressure for local remembrance of Sandakan was reflected in the eastern states by the establishment in 1993 of the Sandakan Memorial Foundation.
		These memorials provided a place of remembrance for the Sandakan families living in the surrounding districts, as on each memorial were the names of the local men who had died at Sandakan.
	www.dva.gov.au /media/publicat/sandakan/sand10.htm (3536 words)

	History
		Stotter, who had in the meantime been appointed to Sandakan, was sent to negotiate a financial settlement with Kuching.
		Already in 1923, partly realizing that the fathers in Sandakan could no longer cope with the volume of work, partly understanding the desperate need to have professionals heading the school in Sandakan, he contacted the La Salle brothers to take over the school but unfortunately nothing came of it.
		Look at the faithfulness of Fr.Stotter as he hopped between Sandakan, Kudat, Marudu and Tawau, finding the Catholics and their leaders, seeking catechists and helpers, struggling to build the first chapel, school and living quarters.
	members.tripod.com /catholicflash/html/history.htm (4900 words)

	Dugongs In East Malaysian Water
		In Kudat Division, all the animals were recorded singly and observed feeding in the shallow waters close to shore, north-east of Balambangan Island (Lung Bay) and west of Malawali Islands on 19 May 2000, and north-west of Banggi Island (Lung Bay) on 26 May 2000.
		A majority of the respondents from all divisions in Sabah noted that on the average at least one dugong was caught in the last 5 years.
		Pemukat in Labuan Island, Lung Bay and Malawali Island in Kudat, Kaniogan, Cape Semangat, and Nunuyan Island in Sandakan, and Tambisan, Timbun Mata, and Gaya Islands and Tungku in Tawau Division.
	www.arbec.com.my /dugongs/results_discussion.php (2705 words)

	Don Wall - Author, Historian and Former Far-East Prisoner of War
		“Sandakan the Last March” was regarded as the most definitive account of the Sandakan tragedy to date, and ultimately triggered the Don Wall formation of the Sandakan Memorial Foundation in 1992.
		The Sandakan Memorial Foundation then set about Don Wall sandakan to establish permanent memorials to those who perished at Sandakan, in the districts from which significant numbers of Sandakan POWs had originated.
		Throughout the Sandakan late 1990s and until his death in 2004, Don continued his research work and remained a treasured source of information for Don Wall families of POWs and military historians alike.
	www.donwall.com.au (570 words)

				Sandakan was the place where the many Australians spent time in a prisoner of war camp, and was the starting point for the infamous death marches to Ranau.
		This part of the war is considered by many to be the worst atrocity ever suffered by Australian soldiers, and compares to the atrocities of the Burma Railway, where fewer Australian POW's lost their lives.
		An Australian Memorial honouring the survivors, POW's, local civilians who help to clandestinely feed the prisoners, and soldiers who perished at Sandakan and during the death marches into the jungle, has been erected at what was the Prisoner of War Camp in Taman Rimba close to the city of Sandakan.
	www.borneo.com.au /auswar.htm (1569 words)

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		Sandakan 347,334 year 2000 census is a town in Sabah, eastern Malaysia, on the island of Borneo.
		It is the administrative center of Sandakan Division 439,384 estimated district population 2003.
		Sandakan is famous as the gateway for ecotourism destinations such as the Sepilok Orang Utan Sanctuary, Turtle Islands Park, Kinabatangan River and Gomantong Cave.
	www.fsdome.com /database2005-2/03-09-2005.htm (1366 words)

	Second Australian Imperial Force: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The 6th Division exerienced many casualties in mainland Greece, and on Crete The largest Greek island in the Mediterranean; site of the Minoan civilization that reached its peak in 1600 BC [For more, click on this link], and 3,000 of its personnel were taken prisoner in the Greek campaign.
		The 6th and 7th Divisions were recalled to take part in the Pacific War The pacific war, which is known in japan as the greater east asia war and in china as the war of resistance against japanese aggression (kang-ri zhanzheng, literally "resist japan war"), occurred...
		The 6th and 7th Divisions, with elements of the 1st Armoured, formed a large part of the Allied forces which destroyed the major Japanese beachhead in New Guinea, at the Battle of Buna-Gona The battle of buna-gona was a battle in the pacific campaign of world war ii....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /s/second_australian_imperial_force (2392 words)

	Home-grown terrorism - Global Terrorism - www.smh.com.au
		Sandakan is a place where there was and may still be significant JI presence.
		By the 1990s, JI had established a second division in Sandakan, led by Nasir Abbas, who is helping police with their inquiries.
		Sandakan is a key transit point for Jemaah Islamiah recruits travelling from Indonesia to the Southern Philippines for training.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/10/01/1096527940768.html?from=storylhs (2175 words)

	Sabah Destinations - BlogCharm
		Sandakan was the permanent seat of Government and centre of commerce; Tawau was small but a prosperous town.
		Sandakan - a pearl on the east coast of sabah
		Sandakan is the biggest town in the east coast of Sabah state.
	www.blogcharm.com /sabahdestinations (2613 words)

	Kota Kinabalu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Kota Kinabalu, formerly Jesselton, is the capital of Sabah, east Malaysia, on the island of Borneo; it is also the capital of the West Coast Division of Sabah.
		After the war, the British North Borneo Company, unable to finance the huge costs of reconstruction, gave control of North Borneo to the British crown.
		The new colonial government elected to rebuild Jesselton as the capital of North Borneo instead of Sandakan, which had also been razed in the war.
	www.greenvalenyus.com /topic/Jesselton (654 words)

	Sandakan - SkyscraperCity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Sandakan is the second-largest town in the state of Sabah, East Malaysia, on the north-eastern of island of Borneo.
		It is the administrative centre of Sandakan Division and was the former capital of British North Borneo.
		Sandakan is known as the gateway for ecotourism destinations in Sabah, such as the Sepilok Orang Utan Sanctuary, Turtle Islands Park, Kinabatangan River and Gomantong Caves.
	www.skyscrapercity.com /showthread.php?t=337095 (730 words)

	North Borneo Biography,info
		In June 1945 the Australian 9th Division landed in Brunei and liberated much of North Borneo before the end of the war.
		The destruction of the former capital Sandakan was so complete that Jesselton was chosen as the new post-war capital.
		The colonial system of administration was in most ways similar rule during the Company era, retaining the same Residency and District structure; however, as a result of this change in status, North Borneo had access to British government funds for reconstruction.
	www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_BOR (1408 words)

	Kota Kinabalu Summary
		In 1946, Jesselton replaced Sandakan as the capital of what then was British North Borneo, and in 1968 it was renamed Kota Kinabalu.
		Kota Kinabalu, formerly Jesselton, is the capital of Sabah, east Malaysia, on the island of Borneo; it is also the capital of the West Coast Division of Sabah.
		The new colonial government elected to rebuild Jesselton as the capital of North Borneo instead of Sandakan, which had also been razed in the war.
	www.bookrags.com /Kota_Kinabalu (908 words)

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