SANDAKAN: The friendship enjoyed between Malaysia and Australia has in part been shaped by the common and bitter experience of war.
Governor-General of Australia Sir Peter Cosgrove said in the last months of World War Two, almost 2,500 Australian and British prisoners-of-war were forced to march over 250km in Sabah.
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