Kota Kinabalu: Sabahans and those who always yearned to know what happened in the last moments of the Japanese Petagas massacre before dawn on January 21, 1944 are fortunate that the only surviving witness is still alive.
Kota Kinabalu: Matnin Matzin, 75, the son of Matzin Ani, the boiler man on the train which transported the Double Tenth detainees to Petagas, said Derasik’s account matches what his dad told him of the massacre.
Kota Kinabalu: Sabahans and those who always yearned to know what happened in the last moments of the Petagas massacre before dawn on January 21, 1944 are fortunate that the only surviving witness is still alive.