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—Deputy Governor to Secretary of State for the Colonies, 19 March 1945 The armed rebellion of the Mau Mau was the culminating response to colonial rule. Although there had been previous instances of violent resistance to colonialism, the Mau Mau revolt was the most prolonged and violent anti-colonial warfare in the British Kenya colony. From the start, the land was the primary British ...
The Battle of the Pine is the name given in Greek Cypriot sources to an attack on a British army vehicle by the EOKA on 24 November 1955. A team of EOKA guerrillas ambushed the vehicles on the road from Kyperounda to Chandria killing one soldier, Sapper Robert Melson.
The Malayan Emergency (1948–1960) was a guerrilla war fought in British Malaya between communist fighters of the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA) and the military forces of the Federation of Malaya, British Empire and Commonwealth.
The state of emergency in France is framed by the Law n°55-385 of 3 April 1955 (pre-dating the constitution of the Fifth Republic) and modeled on the " état de siège ". It was created in the context of the Algerian War, to allow the authorities to manage the crisis without having to declare the " état de siège ", which allows the military ...
A national state of emergency automatically expires after 90 days, unless extended by the Governor-in-Council. [24] There are different levels of emergencies: Public Welfare Emergency, Public Order Emergency, International Emergency, and War Emergency. [25] The Emergencies Act replaced the War Measures Act in 1988.
Signature. Chin Peng[b] (21 October 1924 – 16 September 2013), born Ong Boon Hua, [c] OBE [a] was a Malayan communist politician, guerrilla leader, and revolutionary, who was the leader and commander of the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) and the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA). A Maoist, he led the CPM as secretary general from 1947 ...
Background and causes of the Malayan Emergency. Headquarters of the Communist Party of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, 1948. In 1948, the Communists and the British colonial government in Malaya entered a period of guerrilla fighting which has become known to history as the Malayan Emergency . The name derives from the state of emergency declared by ...
The Cyprus Emergency [note 2] was a conflict fought in British Cyprus between April 1955 and March 1959. [8]The National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters (EOKA), a Greek Cypriot right-wing nationalist guerrilla organisation, began an armed campaign in support of the end of British colonial rule and the unification of Cyprus and Greece (Enosis) in 1955.