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The Malayan Trilogy series of novels (1956–1959) by Anthony Burgess is set during the Malayan Emergency. In The Sweeney episode "The Bigger They Are" (series 4, episode 8; 26 October 1978), the tycoon Leonard Gold is being blackmailed by Harold Collins, who has a photo of him present at a massacre of civilians in Malaya when he was in the ...
The Death of Lau Yew took place at the beginning of the Malayan Emergency. British security forces and Malayan Police clashed with those of the Malayan Communist Party resulting in the death of one of their key leaders, Lau Yew. [1] He had been betrayed by his own bodyguard. [2] Six people were killed in the initial attack.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 12:55, 5 September 2024: 804 × 857 (783 KB): Abdul Rahman Muazzam: Uploaded a work by British soldier serving in the Malayan Emergency. from War diary belonging to a soldier of the British Army's Suffolk Regiment, 17 April 1952 - 5 January 1953, Suffolk county archives (Bury St Edmunds), GB554/B/2/10.
The assassination of Sir Henry Gurney took place on 6 October 1951 at the height of the Malayan Emergency. Gurney, the British High Commissioner in Malaya, was killed by members of the Malayan Communist Party at Mile 56 ½ of Kuala Kubu Road on his way to Fraser's Hill for a meeting. [1] [2]
The crash happened when the country was struggling with communist insurgents, a period known as the Malayan Emergency (1948–60), when British, Commonwealth and other security forces in Malaya fought the insurgents. The Communist Party of Malaya had demanded Malaya's independence, but Britain responded by mounting a large-scale military and ...
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[1] [3] [7] [9] The British Prime Minister at the time, Winston Churchill initially refused but following the order by the Sultan of Perak who agreed to pardon and persuaded the British authorities, [7] along with the efforts of Lim Phaik Gan, a British-born Malayan woman lawyer and diplomat, [10] her sentence was commuted and she was released ...
The Batang Kali massacre was the killing of 24 unarmed male civilians in Batang Kali by the British Army's Scots Guards on 12 December 1948. The massacre took place in Batang Kali, Malaya (now Malaysia) during the Malayan Emergency, a communist insurgency involving the British Commonwealth and communist guerrillas belonging to the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA). [1]