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...morphing from being mainly a separatist issue for the Philippines into a terrorist problem for the rest of Southeast Asia has Malaysian and Indonesian officials on full alert. (Both countries have porous maritime borders with Mindanao.) Over recent weeks, Malaysian police have detained six suspects in the town of Sandakan in Borneo for arranging the transport of JI recruits to Mindanao. Meanwhile, Indonesian police say that several of the 18 men arrested for plotting and executing the Dec. 5 bombing of a McDonald's outlet in Makassar in South Sulawesi province have confessed to being trained in Mindanao. And investigators...
...houses were gone; sleazy palm-leaf shacks swayed in their places. The flies were thicker, the natives were thinner; only the charring equatorial heat was the same. Nevertheless, Harry and Agnes Keith were glad to be back. Before war and Japanese prison camps, the "dirty, stinking little town" of Sandakan, British North Borneo, was home...
Pyramid Intact. Author Keith (Land Below the Wind, Three Came Home) got her first peek at Sandakan as a young bride in 1934. Then she had felt the lure "of a country where elephants roamed free, fish flew . . . ladies wore evening dresses every evening, and I had no dishes to do, no clothes or babies to wash...
...conservative Sandakan, the social pyramid was still intact, with 25,000 Chinese, Malays, Indians and natives at the base, 80 Europeans at the top. The only revolutionary the Keiths had to keep tab on was little Georgie Keith, 7. To Mrs. Keith's dismay, he began spouting pidgin English: "Aw, Ma, dey all spik like dat!" "But that's not English you are talking. You must stop." "O.K., Mum. I no talk like dat any more...
...first four months things weren't too bad in Sandakan: the Japs looted thoroughly but neither killed nor raped anyone. Mrs. Keith was beaten up by soldiers while pregnant and ill and had a miscarriage-but that was only a mild foretaste of things to come. The prisoners were moved to Berhala Island just offshore. Women & children were housed in one crowded, ill-ventilated barrack; the men some distance away in another. Said the Jap commanding officer: "You are a fourth-class nation now. Therefore your treatment will be fourth-class, and you will live and eat as coolies...