Presentation The Malaysian Experience & Hope For The Future in International Conference On World War 2 & The Rise Of Multilateralism. Plenary Theatre, Level 3, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre.

Content
• Reasons for Japanese Invasion of Malaya
• Reasons for British Defeat and Japanese Victory
• Picture sof Defeat and Victory
• Japanese Occupation of Singapore and Malaya
• Japanese Racia lPolicy
• The Rise of Military Response
• End of WWII
• Palestinian & Israel Conflict–Possible Future War


Reasons for Japanese Invasion of Malaya
1. Ambitious Leader: Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
2. Control of Rich Resources in SEA: The need of land for growing population
3. Need for Raw Materials:

• British and US embargo
• Need toget vital resources needed

4. Good Opportunity:

• British engaged in war in Europe
• Lower priority to provide defense in the East
• Good time to launch an invasion

Importance of Malaya:
• An important source of tin and rubber
• Malayan Chinese
• British Colony
Economic, power and opportunity are reasons behind the invasion…

Japanese Conquest of Malaya:
Reasons for Britis Defeat;
- Malaya Was Not Prepared For War
- Inexperienced Young Soldiers
- Lack of Military Equipment
- Lack of Air And Naval Defense For Troops
- Engaged In War In Europe
- No Tanks
- No Jungle Training
- British Complacency

Reasons For Japanese Victory:
- Well-Planned Invasion
- Well-Prepared Military
- Gen Yamashita As A Good And Experienced Commander
- Excellent Tactics And Coordination
- Superviority of Army Over British Forces
- Japanese Propaganda
- Japanese Promise to Free India from British Rule

In November 1942, The Japanese army set a world record for marching endurance by covering 100 miles down the Malay Peninsula in 72 hours.

Japanese Occupation of Singapore & Malaya
MILITARY GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHED:

• Singapore and Malaya were renamed “Syonan-to” and “NewMalai” respectively

• Creation of Malay Consultative Councils (8 provinces) chaired by the Japanese Governor and the Sultans as Vice Chairman. The Sultan and members could only advise the Chairman.

• The Sultans remained as head of state with no administrative power but only on matters concerning Malay customs and Islam

• Siamese rule over Kedah, Perlis, Kelantan & Trengganu was restored as a reward for cooperating with the Japanese

• Japanese Military Administration demanded full cooperation supported by the notorious Kempeitai (secret police)

OTHER EFFECTS

• Nipponisation of people–Japanese Systemof Education, Japanese language “Nippon-go” at primary schools, national anthem,Japanese customs, traditions and culture and controlling people through propaganda

• Decline in economy–tin and rubber industries declined, import and export market cut off and unemployment

• Shortage of foods & other necessities–shortage of imported foodstuff, Japanese food growing campaign, substitution

• The issue of paper money and black market–flood of “banananotes” and blackmarket

• Poor public health services–hospitals looted for medical supplies by Japanese, preventive measures against diseases neglected

Japanese Occupation of Singapore & Malaya (RACIAL POLICY)
The Chinese

• Supported China against Japanese since 1937-collected large sums of money

• Japanese mistrust of Chinese in Malaya

• Fierce Chinese resistance against the Japanese–thousands massacred

• Allowed to continue trade and business

• Forced to donate $50 mil in 1942

• Traitors vs resistant fighters

The Malays

• Treated less harshly; cooperation and support needed

• Directed propaganda at Malays as they were indigenous and the largest group

• Told Malays they were the rightful owner of Malaya and would eventually gain independence

• Grew to hate Japanese-starvation, fear and suffering

The Indians

• Treated better in the beginning; confidence and support needed

• Japanese promise to free India; India Independence League and India National Army; unsuccessful invasion of India 1943

• 250K forced to work at Death Railway (100K death)

• Grew to hate and distrust Japanese; joined resistance groups

The Europeans & Eurasians

• Made POWs; great hardship

• Death railway

• Eurasians detained, tortured or killed

Japanese Occuption of Singaopre & Malaya

• MPAJA
• Wataniah (Pahang Malays)
• Malayan Communist Party (MCP)
• Malayan Overseas Self-Defence Army
• Force 136

THE RISE OF MILITARY RESPONSE
During the occupation a guerilla resistance force battled the Japanesefrom the jungles of Malaya.
Groups such as the Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA) and Force 136 were involved in the bulk of anti-Japanese resistance during the occupation.

End of WWII...
SURRENDER OF THE JAPANESE
• Battle of the Coral Sea (May 1942)
• Battle of Midway (July 1942)
• May 1945 : German surrendered
• 6 and 9 August 1945: Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• 15 August 1945: Unconditional Japanese surrender on board of the Missouri

INSTRUMENT OF SURRENDER

• Instrument of surrender– “We, acting by command of and in behalf of the Emperor of Japan, the Japanese Government, and the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters, hereby accept provisions set forth in the declaration set forth by the heads of the Governments of United States, China and Great Britain on 26 July 1945 at Potsdam, and subsequently adhered to by the United of Soviet Socialists Republics, which four powers are hereafter referred to as the Allied Powers. We hereby proclaim the unconditional surrender to the Allied Powers of the Japanese Imperial Generals Headquarters and of all Japanese armed forces and all armed forces under the Japanese control wherever situated”

• 12 September 1945: Lt Gen Itagaki surrendered to Lord Louis Mountbatten, Allied Supreme Commander at the Municipal Building in Singapore

EFFECTS OF JAPANESE OCCUPATION
• Lawlessness and Violence
• Thousands death
• Racial Hostilities
• Malayan Communist Party (MCP) Strengthened
• Social and Public Health Services in Disorder
• Economic Problems
• British Prestige Lowered
• Development of Malay Nationalism

Short Quiz on Palestine/Israel Conflict Potential Cause of Future War
Instructions:
1)Please answer the statements: True or False
2)There are 6 questions for this quiz

Time Left
TRUE/FALSE

1. The Arabs/Palestinians own 97.5% (1917), 44% (1947), 22% (1948-1967), 10% (1995)and 13% (2006) of land from the original State of Palestine? TRUE
2. 123 Israeli children have been killed by Palestinians and 1,487 Palestinian children have been killed by Israelis since September 29,2000? TRUE
3. 1,072 Israelis and at least 6,348 Palestinians have been killed since September 29, 2000? TRUE
4. There is another country in the middle east with nuclear power besides Israel?
5. Israel is the only country in the Middle-East receives more than one-third of all U.S. aid yet is the 16th richest country in the world? TRUE
6. Israel has been in defiance of 69 United Nations Security Council resolutions and has been protected from 29 more by U.S.vetoes? TRUE

Amazing what they get away with isn’t it…
Q: Which country in the Middle-East refuses to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and bars international inspections?
Answer: Israel.
Q: Which country in the Middle-East seized the sovereign territory of other nations by military force and continues to occupy it in defiance of United Nations Security Council resolutions?
Answer: Israel.
Q: Which country in the Middle-East routinely violates the international borders of another sovereign state with warplanes and artillery and naval gunfire?
Answer: Israel.
Q: Which American ally in the Middle-East has for years sent assassins into other countries to kill its political enemies (a practice sometimes
called “exporting terrorism”)?
Answer: Israel.
Q: In which country in the Middle-East have high-ranking military officers admitted publicly that unarmed prisoners of war were executed?
Answer: Israel.
Q: Which country in the Middle-East refuses to prosecute its soldiers who have acknowledged executing prisoners of war?
Answer: Israel.
Q: Which country in the Middle-East created 762,000 refugees and refuses to allow them to return to their homes, farms and businesses?
Answer: Israel.
Q: Which country in the Middle-East refuses to pay compensation to people whose land, bank accounts and businesses it confiscated?
Answer: Israel.
Q: In which country in the Middle-East was a high-ranking United Nations diplomat assassinated?
Answer: Israel.
Q: In which country in the Middle-East did the man who ordered the assassination of a high-ranking U.N. diplomat become prime minister?
Answer: Israel.
Q: Which country in the Middle-East blew up an American diplomatic facility in Egypt and attacked a U.S. ship, the USS Liberty, in international waters, killing 34 and wounding 171 American sailors?
Answer: Israel.
Q: Which country in the Middle-East employed a spy, Jonathan Pollard, to steal classified documents and then gave some of them to the Soviet Union?
Answer: Israel.
Q: Which country at first denied any official connection to Pollard, then voted to make him a citizen and has continuously demanded that the American president grant Pollard a full pardon?
Answer: Israel.
Q. Which Middle-East country allows American Jewish murderers to flee to its country to escape punishment in the United States and refuses to
extradite them once in their custody?
Answer: Israel
Q. Which Middle-East country preaches against hate yet builds a shrine and a memorial for a murderer who killed 29 Palestinians while they prayed in their Mosque?
Answer: Israel
Q: Which country on Planet Earth has the second-most powerful lobby in the United States, according to a recent Fortune magazine survey of Washington insiders?
Answer: Israel.
Q. Which country in the Middle-East deliberately targeted a U.N. Refugee Camp in Qana, Lebanon and killed 103 innocent men, women, and especially children?
Answer: Israel.
Q. Which country in the Middle-East receives U.S. weapons for free and then sells the technology to the Republic of China even at the objections of the U.S.?
Answer: Israel.
Q. Which country in the Middle-East routinely insults the American people by having its Prime Minister address the United States Congress and lecturing them like children on why they have no right to reduce foreign aid?
Answer: Israel.
Q. Which country in the Middle-East had its Prime Minister announce to his staff not to worry about what the United States says because “We control America”?
Answer: Israel.
Q. Which country in the Middle-East was cited by Amnesty International for demolishing more than 4000 innocent Palestinian homes as a means of “ethnic cleansing”?
Answer: Israel.
Q. Which country in the Middle-East has just recently used a weapon of mass destruction, a one-ton smart bomb, dropping it in the centre of a highly populated area killing 15 civilians including 9 children?
Answer: Israel.
Q. Which country in the Middle-East routinely kills young Palestinian children for no reason other than throwing stones at armoured vehicles, bulldozers, or tanks?
Answer: Israel.
Q. Which country in the Middle-East signed the Oslo Accords promising to halt any new Jewish Settlement construction but, instead, has built more than 270 new settlements since the signing?
Answer: Israel.
Q. Which country in the Middle-East has assassinated more than 100 political officials of its opponent in the last 2 years while killing hundreds of civilians in the process, including dozens of children?
Answer: Israel.
Q. Which country in the Middle-East regularly violates the Geneva Convention by imposing collective punishment on entire towns, villages, and refugee camps for the acts of a few, and even goes as far as demolishing entire villages while people are still in their homes?
Answer: Israel.

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