Last leg to Tarakan and Balikpapan
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. – Oprah Winfrey, American talk show host It was time to leave Long Nawang and head for Tarakan where another tragic Japanese war crime occurred in 1942 when 215 Dutch soldiers were tricked into surrendering, and then drowned in the sea. […]
My 2,000km flight to Long Nawang
We know about every massacre that has taken place close to the present, but the ones in the distant past are like trees falling in the forest with no one to hear them. – Steven Pinker, Canadian-American cognitive psychologist On Nov 29, 2017 I flew to Long Nawang, to investigate the 1942 murder of 30 […]
