Fifty
years ago on this date, 12 July 1963, a prison Superintendent, Dutton together
with two other prison staffs were brutally murdered by prison rioters in Pulau
Senang, an island of Singapore. I will post the information from Wikipedia. 18
of the rioters were sentenced to death and executed by hanging.
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Pulau Senang
is a 81.7-hectare coral island about 13 kilometres off the southern coast of Singapore. Along with Pulau Pawai and Pulau Sudong, it is used as a military
training area for live-fire exercises.
Pulau Senang is best known in the history of
Singapore as a penal settlement
experiment that failed after only three years, when a riot
against the guards broke out in 1963, killing three officers. Pulau
Senang is Malay for "island of ease".
Pulau
Senang was a penal experiment where prisoners were allowed to roam freely on
the island. It was thought that detainees could be reformed through manual
labour.
The
settlement started on 18 May 1960, when 50 detainees arrived with Superintendent
Daniel Dutton. Over the next three years, the number of detainees rose to 320,
and they transformed the island into an attractive settlement.
Believing
that through hard work, the detainees could be reformed. Dutton removed arms
from the guards. On 12 July 1963, a group of some 70 to 90 detainees rioted and
burned down most of the buildings. They hacked Dutton to death and killed two
other officers. 58 people were accused of rioting and murdering Dutton and
officers Arumugan Veerasingham and Tan Kok Hian.
Because
of the large number of the accused, a special dock had to be constructed for
them. The case went to trial on 18 November and lasted an unprecedented 64
days. On 12 March 1964, the seven-member jury found 18 of the accused guilty of
murder, 18 guilty of rioting with deadly weapons and 11 guilty of rioting. The
remaining 11 accused were acquitted. Those found guilty of murder were sentenced
to death, while those found guilty of rioting with deadly weapons were sentenced
to three years of imprisonment; the rest to two years of imprisonment.
Most
of those involved in the rioting were members of secret societies who were
detained without trial and had no hope of leaving the island. As a result of
the riots, the penal experiment came to an abrupt end.
LET US NOT FORGET THE THREE FALLEN PRISON STAFFS. 18 OF THE
RIOTERS WERE EXECUTED. PLEASE GO TO THIS BLOG POST TO HEAR FROM THE JUDGE,
MURRAY BUTTROSE AND ALSO THIS BLOG POST FROM ANOTHER BLOGGER.
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