Changi Beach: one of the world's most beautiful, but haunted beach

New Delhi : The Changi Beach Park is a beach park located at the northeastern tip of Singapore. The beach looks out to the sea over Pulau Ubin, one of the remaining kampung (villages) in the very modern and urban Singapore.This is one of the most beautiful beaches in the Asia Pacific and has one of the most horrific histories too. This beach stands witness to the killing of innumerable innocent soldiers. During the Second World War, the Japanese invaders used Changi Beach as the execution spot for thousands.Singapore was an important trading post and port during that period as well. This compact city state was also strategically vital to the British as a Crown colony of the British and became the military base for Allied troops in Southeast Asia.When the Japanese invaded Singapore in early 1942, fierce fighting went on for a week from February 8 to 15 in what became known as the Battle of Singapore for the fate of the outpost considered the Gilbraltar of the East.Singapore fell into Japanese hands by mid-February, 1942.The cruelty of the Japanese invaders unleashed three years of unimaginable horrors in Singapore. Right after taking over Singapore, the Japanese soldiers started their cruel behave and killed many.The survivors were marched to Changi Beach which became a POW camp for British, Chinese and Australian soldiers. There, by the thousands, these soldiers were tortured, beheaded and impaled by the Japanese and till date beach combers thronging to this place could hear the screams and weeping of people. Often at night people could also find deep dig pits as that needed for burials of dead bodies. The most horrifying is that some beach combers have found headless bodies of chinese soldiers on the beach at night.