A short film by well-known Australian documentary maker Max Uechtritz – himself born in Rabaul, and a founding member of the Montevideo Maru Committee – was shown, which saw many of the victims’ descendants weeping throughout.

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It all concerned the fate of Japan’s converted military transport ship, the Montevideo Maru, as it sailed in the waters north of the Philippines on the night of June 30, 1942.

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The Montevideo Maru has been discovered off the coast of the Philippines 80 years after it was sunk, killing about 980 Australian troops and civilians.

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