Kevin Blackburn
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HISTORICAL DIALOGUES: “Comfort Women” – New Research from Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia
Historical Dialogues Network Seminar “Comfort Women” - New Research from Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia held on 11 October 2023
Moderator: Mary M. McCarthy (Drake University, USA)
Participants: Kevin Blackburn (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore). Katharine McGregor (University of Melbourne, Australia), Sachiyo Tsukamoto (University of Newcastle, Australia)
Date/Time: 11 October, 2023: 0600-0715 (New York), 1200-1315 (Berlin), 2100-2215 (Melbourne/Sydney), 1900-2015 (Tokyo)
Overview: Panel moderator Professor Mary McCarthy of Drake University talks with the authors of three recent books on the history of women from Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia subjected to enforced military prostitution by the Japanese army. Each author reflects on what their research adds to the historiography of this topic and what is new about their findings. They address the particular challenges women from these countries have faced in bringing their experiences to light and why the transnational movement for redress has not had as much impact in these countries or for these particular women. By doing so, the participants offer new insights into this global movement for redress and how national, patriarchal, and local cultures have impeded it.
Books discussed:
Kevin Blackburn, 'The Comfort Women of Singapore in History and Memory', NUS Press, 2022.
Katharine McGregor, 'Systemic Silencing: Activism, Memory, and Sexual Violence in Indonesia', University of Wisconsin Press, 2023.
Sachiyo Tsukamoto, 'The Politics of Trauma and Integrity: Stories of Japanese “Comfort Women”', Routledge, 2022.
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Chang Teh Cheok who was in the KMT equivalent of Dalforce
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Chang Teh Cheok who was in the KMT equivalent of Dalforce - the Overseas Guard Force. His describes his encounter with the Japanese soldiers as they came across the Johor Straits in February 1942 in the swamps near Kranji in the Battle for Singapore.
The Malay Regiment: Abbas Abdul Manan 's oral history interview in 1992
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Abbas Abdul Manan of the Malay Regiment in 1942 gives an oral history interview about his experiences in battle at Bukit Chandu in February 1942
Pioneers 1993 Eunos Abdullah and Abdul Samat
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Pioneers 1993 Eunos Abdullah and Abdul Samat
Pioneers 1993 Lim Boon Keng
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Pioneers 1993 Lim Boon Keng
Chinese Women in the Colonial Life of Singapore
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This is an 15 minute episode of the Singapore television series 'Looking Back' from 1987. It is called 'Maids'. The series was a Curriculum Development Institute of Singapore creation and produced by the Department of Educational Technology. The series was meant for use in Singapore schools. It covers the experience of Chinese women during colonial times with a re-enactment of the life of a rea...
Rasammah Bhupalan excerpts on war and soldiering
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Rasammah Bhupalan excerpts on war and soldiering
Rani of Jhansi Veteran Mrs Rasammah Bhupalan Full 2005 Address Pt 2
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Mrs Rasammah Bhupalan recalls her days as a female warrior in the Rani of Jhansi Regiment of Indian women organised by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in 1943 at Singapore and Malaya to fight for India's independence. She remembers her feelings as a young teenager (born in 1927), travelling to the front in Burma to fight the British on Indian soil. Mrs Bhupalan is speaking at the war forum held at t...
Rani of Jhansi Veteran Mrs Rasammah Bhupalan Full 2005 Address Pt 1
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Mrs Rasammah Bhupalan describes her life as a female warrior in the Rani of Jhansi Regiment of Indian women organised by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in 1943 at Singapore and Malaya to fight for India's independence. She recalls her feelings as a young teenager (born in 1927), rejecting a belief in Gandhi's non-violent protest of satyagraha and embracing the 1938 Indian Congress Party President B...
Rani of Jhansi Veteran Rasammah Bhupalan
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Mrs Rasammah Bhupalan describes the reasons why she joined the Rani of Jhansi Regiment of Indian women organised by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in 1943 at Singapore and Malaya to fight for India's independence. She describes her feelings as a young teenager (born in 1927). Mrs Bhupalan is speaking at the war forum held at the Singapore History Museum in September 2005. For a more complete story ...
MALAYSIAN INA VETERAN ORIGINALLY FROM THE BRITISH INDIAN ARMY K.R. DAS
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K.R. Das joined the British Indian Army in Bombay and arrived in Singapore on 3 January 1942 with the 45th Indian Brigade, which was annihilated at the Battle of Muar on 16-20 January 1942. He talks about his disillusionment with the British Indian Army and the desire to fight for India's freedom. Das also discusses the incompetency of his British commanders and their contempt for ordinary Indi...
THE LAST DALFORCE VETERAN CHOI SIEW HONG
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Choi Siew Hong was one of three Raffles College students who joined the Chinese volunteer army unit Dalforce to fight the Japanese weeks before the fall of Singapore in 1942. He speaks about his experience at a public forum on World War II at the Singapore History Museum in September 2005. Mr Choi eventually became Deputy Governor of Malaysia's central bank, Bank Negara (1966-1972). He passed a...

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  • @JasonZawTunBlgps
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    7:56-9:19.

    • @JasonZawTunBlgps
      @JasonZawTunBlgps 2 місяці тому

      Ok, so what I’m getting from that timestamp is he provided Malay education and sent them overseas. Gotcha! I want to watch Murder Drones at post-dismissal. 😂

  • @JasonZawTunBlgps
    @JasonZawTunBlgps 2 місяці тому

    11:45-12:30. 😴

  • @ezjuliani
    @ezjuliani 2 місяці тому

    Lancau!!

  • @we.got.everythingcreditg
    @we.got.everythingcreditg 5 місяців тому

    Thank you it is very useful

  • @AzlanJalil
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    regimen pertama melayu terbaik,❤❤❤

  • @AminNazari666
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    Pehh ini lah orang yang Lt Adnan halau suruh undur selamatkan diri.

    • @aizatjunaidi69
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      Sebelum lt adnan suruh kwn dier undur dorang ada lwn dgn senjata sama senjata dulu pastu dah bunuh tentera jepun sedikit pastu cabut lari.tapi leftenan adnan jer tertinggal pastu kenek gantung tikan sama bayonet banyak kali

    • @aizatjunaidi69
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      Tapi dlm video ni org pelakon ke ataupun betul nye

  • @tigerkl4956
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    Legendary army 🪖🪖🪖

  • @faktab7776
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    A single platoon of men who had more balls, courage and bravery then the entire British army combined.

  • @Huben57
    @Huben57 2 роки тому

    They are heroes. Poorly equipped. Yet they fought to the end against the Japanese

  • @aizatjunaidi69
    @aizatjunaidi69 2 роки тому

    I thought all the malay regiment die at bukit chandu but there are still alive at the chandu hill after they killed some japanese soldier and escape from that hill

  • @recordnice
    @recordnice 2 роки тому

    Legend

  • @charliesahar993
    @charliesahar993 2 роки тому

    The great & mighty of malay regiments

  • @yoongmian1599
    @yoongmian1599 2 роки тому

    UNSUNG HERO

  • @Bustamamgendut
    @Bustamamgendut 2 роки тому

    May I know the title of this documentary? Thank you.

  • @zainudinumar2860
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    Semoga Allah mencucuri rahmat pada Almarhum panglima Adnan dan seluruh warga ramd yg terkorban.Amin ya robal alamin. X23 Ramd.Hubul watan minal iman.

  • @sandlongpp5851
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    Thank you for posting the account of Mr Choi Siew Hong. It was a privilege and honour for me to meet Mr Choi, when he was the Deputy Governor of Bank Negara in 1972. Upright, impeccable clarity of thoughts into speech. I was a mere sapling compared to this giant. Those occasions were, when whilst putting his signatures on documents I brought, included a single visit to his residence amongst the government bungalows in Ampang area, I was introduced to his son, who was with Finance of Esso. A patriot, a manager, a visionary Malayan. Salute.

  • @sandlongpp5851
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    Sir, I salute you . History was not kind to the Indian National Army. You are walking history. Please accept my respects to you and comrades Of INA. SALUTE TO SUBHAS CHANDRA BOSE. THE FIRST ASIAN ANTI COLONIAL NATIONALIST, LIBERATOR OF ASIAN MINDS. FUEL OF ASIAN PATRIOTISM. If INA WAS NOT BORN WE WOULD BE POORER , WITHOUT MAHATMA GHANDI AUNG SAN, NEHRU, MOHAMAD ALI JINNAH,MACAPAGAL , SUKARNO. , HATTA Thank you Sir, Rumbha nandri Selamat Po

  • @sandlongpp5851
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    Terima Kasih. Thank you. Xie Xie Nien. Rumba Nandri. Origato Gozaimasu. Merci Beaucoup. Spasiba. Danke Schon. Pepys Road Bikers. 1,000 friends not enough, 1 enemy too many. Parra Bellum.

  • @marzukimustafa1467
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    Well done all heroes

  • @zaidii4126
    @zaidii4126 3 роки тому

    Whats the name of the documentary?

  • @BABYYSARA3831
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    KUARTERS PEGAWAI ABBAS

  • @nickchuiyt81
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    thank you for sharing. Useful for teaching secondary one history =)

  • @moon4ise209
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    Nice vid!! Keep it up!

  • @samayikibangla
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    Dear Mr Kevin, will you be able to tell whether Mrs Rassamma is present? If so, can you let me know how to contact her, as we could arrange Lt Bharati Asha Sahay of Rani of Jhansi Regiment (INA) to speak to her?

    • @kevinblackburn2105
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      Last I heard, Mrs Bhupalan was still alive and well and living in Kuala Lumpur. I have not contacted her for years though. She is 94 this year (2021) and has been active in public speaking. Her wikipedia biography is still active. I have her address and house telephone number from when I used to get in touch with her, but I would be reluctant to provide that publicly here. You can contact me at my university e-mail address at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. I am easy to find on the web.

    • @samayikibangla
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      @@kevinblackburn2105 thank you very much. I shall be sending u the email

  • @jayjeetkataria8387
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    interesting interview

  • @navnidhisharma422
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    Thanks for sharing such video. more videos should be uploaded

  • @wonghoonghooi9958
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    From recorded accounts, Dalforce was divided into Communist and Nationalist elements. Regardless, most of them joined to fight the Japanese who invaded the Chinese homeland. These included the over-60 couple who fought at the Bukit Timah battle. These stayed on even when it became obvious that their equipment was ridiculously inadequate (an old hunting rifle with 7 rounds of ammo - 7, not 70). The 3 English-speaking Raffles College students who joined had made it a point in recorded accounts to distance themselves from the motivation of the others who joined. They made it a point to say they joined for adventure ie. for the fun of it. I would have preferred that the last narrated account from a Dalforce veteran had been from a member of the majority group.