changed the mindset, that my generation decided that, 'No ... this doesn't make sense. We should be able to run this [island] as well as the British did, if not better.'" "The Asiatics had looked to them for leadership, and they had failed them." Germaine Foo-Tan writes in an article carried on the Singapore Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) website: The memories of those who lived through that period have been captured at exhibition galleries in the Old Ford Motor Factory at Bukit Timah, the site of the factory where the British surrendered to the Japanese on 15 February 1942. Genocide classification A published undergraduate thesis from the University of Oregon in 2020 argued that the circumstances surrounding Sook Ching should be defined as a genocide instead of a massacre. It is argued that since the crime was racially motivated, targeting primarily Chinese men of working age, the crime fits the classification of genocide as the pursuit of destroying and/or reducing that group's population. See also Kenpeitai East District Branch Japanese war crimes Nanjing massacre Indonesian mass killings of 1965-66 Notes References Book sources Kang, Jew Koon (1981). "Chinese in Singapore during the Japanese occupation, 1942–1945." Academic exercise – Dept. of History, National University of Singapore. External links A Short Walk – Animated short film of Sook Ching Sook Ching Inspection Centre 1942 in Singapore 1942 in Japan Anti-Chinese sentiment in Asia British rule in Singapore Conflicts in 1942 February 1942 events Genocides in Asia Japanese occupation of Singapore Japanese war crimes History of Singapore Mass murder in 1942 March 1942 events Massacres committed by Japan Massacres in Singapore Massacres of men Political and cultural purges World War II massacres Violence against men in Asia