Mateen Ansari: Difference between revisions

He was taken prisoner when [[Empire of Japan|Japan]] occupied [[Hong Kong]] in December 1941 after the [[Battle of Hong Kong]]. After the Japanese discovered that he was related to the ruler of one of the [[Princely States]] they demanded that he renounce his allegiance to the British and foment discontent in the ranks of Indian prisoners in the prison camps.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Kwong Chi Man|first1=Tsoi Yiu Lun|title=Eastern Fortress: A Military History of Hong Kong, 1840-1970|year=2014|publisher=Hong Kong University Press|isbn=9789888208715|pages=231}}</ref><ref name=CWGC>{{cite web|url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2815107|title=Commonwealth War Graves Commission — casualty details|publisher=[[Commonwealth War Graves Commission]]|access-date=2007-12-01}}  This page gives both 20 October and 29 October as the date of his death.  The [http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_reports.aspx?cemetery=49428&mode=1 overall pages] for Stanley Military Cemetery suggest that 29 October is correct</ref>  He refused and was thrown into the notorious [[Stanley Jail]] in May 1942 where he was starved and brutalised. When he remained firm in his allegiance to the British on his return to the prison camps he was again incarcerated in Stanley Jail where he was starved and tortured for five months. He was then returned to the original camp, where he continued in his allegiance to the British, and even helped to organise escape attempts by other prisoners.<ref  name=CWGC />  He was sentenced to death, with over thirty other British, Chinese and Indian prisoners and beheaded on 29 October 1943.<ref  name=CWGC />  He is buried in [[Stanley Military Cemetery]] in Hong Kong.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stephen-stratford.co.uk/jap_pows.htm|author=Stephen Stratford|title=Military history website|access-date=2007-12-01|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012170348/http://stephen-stratford.co.uk/jap_pows.htm|archive-date=2007-10-12}}</ref>

* [http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2815107/ANSARI,%20MATREEN%20AHMED CWGC: Mateen Ansari]