LOCATION LABUAN WAR CEMETERY. Near Labuan Airport and Taman airport. Labuan War Cemetery is about 3.2 km from Victoria, overlooking the
harbour. It is the only war cemetery in North Borneo and contains, as
well as the graves from Sandakan, about 500 from Kuching where there was
another large prisoner of war camp.
Of the 3,908 buried here, a
large number are unidentified graves, this was due to the destruction of
all the records of the camps by Colonel Suya, the Japanese commandant. When apprehended, Suya committed suicide rather than face questioning on his conduct of the Borneo camps
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