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The notion that the declaration of a state of emergency on 16 June 1948 was a hurried response by the government to a carefully planned surprise attack sprung upon it by the MCP has been generally rejected. 16 June can be seen as a point in a continuum of increasing suppression of radicalism in Malaya by the government, beginning in late 1945 ...
Others have argued that the British army's deployment and treatment of the Ibans during the Malayan Emergency reflected the British military's history regarding what they perceived as 'martial races'. [75] The deployment of Iban mercenaries recruited to fight in the Malayan Emergency was a widely publicised topic in the British press.
Rather than declaring a "state of emergency" as the British had done earlier, the Malaysian government introduced several policy initiatives in response to the insurgency, including the Security and Development Program (KESBAN), Rukun Tetangga (Neighbourhood Watch), and the People's Volunteer Corps (RELA Corps).
Democracies use states of emergency to manage a range of situations from extreme weather events to public order situations. Dictatorial regimes often declare a state of emergency that is prolonged indefinitely for the life of the regime, or for extended periods of time so that derogations can be used to override human rights of their citizens usually protected by the International Covenant on ...
Donald Trump and his running mate J.D. Vance. Donald Trump recently announced that he was thinking about declaring a national emergency once he moves into the White House in order to give himself ...
Communist insurgency in Malaysia; Part of the Cold War and continuation of the Malayan Emergency: Sarawak Rangers (present-day part of the Malaysian Rangers) consisting of Ibans leap from a Royal Australian Air Force Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopter to guard the Malay–Thai border from potential Communist attacks in 1965, three years before the war starting in 1968.
The inflation crisis was caused by massive overspending and escalating energy prices and that is why today I will also declare a national energy emergency. We will drill, baby, drill.
The number of state firefighters has increased from 5,800 to nearly 10,800, and more than 2,200 treatment projects — including forest thinning, prescribed burns, fuel breaks and other land work ...