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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 ...
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 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.
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]
The Labis incident took place during the Malayan Emergency in January 1950. British Gurkhas ambushed a group of communist guerillas five miles north of the Johore town of Labis. In the ensuring battle, 22 communists were killed and five wounded. It was described as the "first major success" by British security forces in the emergency. [1]
The Sungai Siput incident marked the beginning of the Malayan Emergency on 16 June 1948. Three European plantation managers were killed at Sungai Siput, Perak in two different rubber estates – the Elphil estate and Phin Soon estate.
Bukit Kepong incident was an armed encounter in 1950 during the Malayan Emergency between the Federation of Malaya Police and the guerrillas of the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA), the armed wing of the Malayan Communist Party (MCP). This conflict took place in an area surrounding the Bukit Kepong police station in Bukit Kepong.
The incident killed all 11 people on board the aircraft. It was the first time guerrillas shot down an aircraft throughout the Malayan Emergency and subsequent communist insurgency in Malaysia and represented the first personnel killed in action in RMAF history.