亡国恨

李後主之去國歸降 - this was one of the shows on a poster I was looking at. In this excerpt there is a line with these three words. So I just used these words as the title.

I mentioned the Japanese Occupation in the previous post. Singapore fell to the Japanese in 1942. It was not a country then; it was a British colony.

I have read a few books about the Japanese Occupation in Singapore. One of them is Sinister Twilight - The Fall of Singapore by Noel Barber. This book is an account of events leading to the fall of Singapore and of the Occupation period. It was a great setback and embarrassment to the British. The next three years were perhaps the darkest years in our nation's history.

The picture below is from a picture book about the atrocities and other bad things the Japanese did during those years.

I think many of you would have seen a video about the fall of Singapore in your CME or NE lesson when you were in secondary school. And your teachers probably would have discussed with you about the lessons we learned from this.