Descendants of British soldiers machine-gunned after leaping into sea from transport ship campaign for official acknowledgement of cover-up
Even amid the litany of horrors from the war in the Far East it still has the power to shock – hundreds of unarmed British and Allied prisoners shot in cold blood by their Japanese captors as they tried to save themselves from a sinking transport ship.
But the fate of the men – machine-gunned after leaping into the sea from the Suez Maru – was largely forgotten, other than by their grieving loved ones.
