Selarang Barracks (Selarang Barracks incident site)

Selarang Barracks is historically significant as the site of the Selarang Barracks incident (also called the Barrack Square incident or the Selarang Square Squeeze), a World War II episode in which British and Australian prisoners-of-war interned by the Japanese in Changi were compelled into a confined area. The event is recorded in wartime histories of Changi and the POW experience in Singapore and is notable enough to carry multiple names in the historical record.\n\nThe source material provided is a historical summary focused on the wartime incident; it contains no accounts of apparitions, hauntings, unexplained sounds, or other paranormal phenomena. No supernatural entities or folkloric traditions are associated with the site in the provided excerpt. Where typical site details such as precise coordinates, construction dates, or current accessibility are not present in the excerpt, they are left as unknown rather than inferred.\n\nCulturally, the site's importance lies in its role in the memory of POW suffering and wartime events in Singapore rather than in any documented paranormal tradition in the provided source.