A large number of remains from the Japanese military's purge of the Chinese community in Asahan, Malacca, in the southern part of the Malay Peninsula and the Federation of Malacca, have been unearthed. During the Japanese occupation of the Malay Peninsula, the Japanese military executed genocide to identify and eliminate suspected anti-Japanese elements in the Chinese community.

　　A large number of remains from the Japanese army's purge of the Chinese descent population in Asahan, Malacca, in the southern Malay Peninsula and the Commonwealth of Malaya, have been unearthed. In the Greater East Asia War, Japanese forces occupied the Federation of Malaya from British forces on January 31, 1942, and Singapore on February 15, 1942. Sook Ching was a Chinese term meaning purge by cleansing. During the Japanese occupation of the Malay Peninsula, they carried out a massacre, known as the Dae Jing, to identify and eliminate suspected anti-Japanese elements in the Chinese community. From February 21 to March 4, 1942, Japanese troops forced Chinese men between the ages of 18 and 50 into mass arrest centers, where anti-Japanese suspects were executed. The Japanese military was most averse to Chinese of Chinese descent who financially supported both the Kuomintang and Communist forces in China.

　On February 18, 1942, Lieutenant General Yamashita Fubun, commander of the 25th Japanese Army, ordered the elimination of anti-Japanese elements within the Chinese population. The Japanese occupying forces executed the anti-Japanese suspects without trial, and on February 7, about 70 surviving soldiers of the Malay Regiment were forcibly taken by the Japanese from the POW camp at Farrer Park in Singapore to the battlefield at Pasir Panjang and shot to death. The purge broke out on February 21 in Singapore and later throughout Malaya. It was the outbreak of a genocidal purge that rounded up and executed Chinese Chinese nationals suspected of being a threat. An estimated 50,000 or more ethnic Chinese of Chinese descent were killed by the Japanese military police.

　On February 18, 1942, Lieutenant General Yamashita Bongwen issued a purge order to the Japanese Army's 25th Army. The purge order ordered all Chinese men of Chinese descent between the ages of 18 and 50 to report to designated screening centers. The order specifically targeted for selective execution the Volunteer Army, Communists, looters, arms bearers, and a list of anti-Japanese suspects controlled and distributed by the Japanese military.

　Mass arrests were carried out in urban areas from February 21 to March 4, 1942, by the Japanese Military Police's 2nd Field Division. The selection of each designated screening center was arbitrary and disorderly. At the Jalan Besar Center, men with glasses were screened as educated and guilty of anti-Japanese activities. At another center, soft hands were screened for evidence of education. At the Telok Kulau School center, people were screened based on occupation. Those unfortunate enough to be selected were loaded onto lorries and forcibly taken to remote locations. Suspects were summarily executed by machine-gun fire. The Japanese military did little to conceal the purge killings. It was estimated that the Japanese executed approximately 5,000 to 6,000 people. Chinese Chinese estimated about 40,000 to 50,000.