POWs' suffering vividly retold in new book by retired military officer

(3rd from left) Major John Tulloch, Datuk Christina Liew, Datuk CL Chan and other guests for the ribbon cutting at the book launch.

KOTA KINABALU: The ordeal of prisoners of war (POWs) walking miles in water-filled boots as a form of torture, confined in tiny bamboo cages and even massacred are all searingly recounted in a new book launched here on Monday (Feb 27).

Titled "The Borneo Graveyard 1941-1945", the 492-page book also describes life during the Japanese occupation, how some Dutch women who helped POWs were gang-raped, and how locals risked their lives to help in secret whenever possible.