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MALAYAN EMERGENCY

TRIUMPH OF THE RUNNING DOGS 19481960

GERRY VAN TONDER

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For my very dear friend Captain Russell Fulton RAR (Rtd)

who is an inspiration to so many

First published in Great Britain in 2017 by

PEN AND SWORD MILITARY

an imprint of

Pen and Sword Books Ltd

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Copyright Gerry van Tonder, 2017

ISBN 978 1 52670 786 4

eISBN 978 1 52670 788 8

Mobi ISBN 978 1 52670 787 1

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TIMELINE 19461960
1930Malayan Communist Party (MCP) formed.
8 December 1941Japan invades Malaya.
16 February 1942Allies surrender at Singapore.
4 September 1945Japanese surrender at Penang.
1 December 1945Malayan Peoples Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA) disbanded by the British Military Administration (BMA).
12 June 1948The government bans trade unions after months of fomenting labour unrest.
16 June 1948Three European planters are murdered by Communists in Perak State.
18 June 1948Britain declares a state of emergency in Malaya.
24 June 1948A state of emergency is also declared in Singapore at the tip of the Malayan Peninsula.
23 July 1948MCP banned, resulting in the party militants forming the Malayan Peoples Anti-British Army (MPABA).
1 February 1949The MPABA changes its name to Malayan Peoples Liberation Army (MPLA).
September 1949February 1950MPLA carry out an average of seventeen road and rail ambushes a month.
Mid-1950Rural population moved into collective New Villages.
March 1950September 1950Road and rail ambushes by the MPLA increase to an average of fifty-six a month.
June 1951Operation Starvation introduced to restrict food movement.
July 1955Malayas first general election sees Tunku Abdul Rahman become chief minister. A partial amnesty is declared.
17 October 1955Government representatives hold the first of three meetings with the MCP at Klian Intan.
24 December 1955The MCP releases an eight-point programme, which includes a cessation of hostilities, the termination of emergency regulations and a demand for political reform.
29 December 1955Talks at Baling break down as the two parties fail to agree on the future legal status of the MCP.
8 February 1956Unsuccessful amnesty scrapped.
2 April 1956Rahman refuses to resume talks with the MCP.
April 1957Hor Lung, MPLA commander of southern operations, is bribed to surrender.
July 1957Sixty per cent of Malaya is declared essentially clear of insurgents White Area and emergency regulations lifted.
August 1957Kuala Lumpur declared a White Area.
31 August 1957Malaya is granted independence from Britain, with Rahman the first prime minister.
31 July 1960The emergency is declared officially over, but emergency regulations remain in place along the Thai border.
HRH The Duke of Edinburgh in Malaya on Merdeka Day 31 August 1957 Courtesy - photo 3

HRH The Duke of Edinburgh in Malaya on Merdeka Day, 31 August 1957. (Courtesy Rhodesian African Rifles Regimental Association (UK))

INTRODUCTION

We honour Europe for its great culture. But the world is something bigger than Europe. Asia counts in world affairs, and it will count much more tomorrow than it does today. Addressing the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 3 November 1948, Indias first prime minister, Pandit Nehru, warned the world, adding:

Asia, till recently, was largely a prey to Imperial domination. A great part of it is now free. But it is an astonishing thing that any country should venture still to hold forth this doctrine of colonialism.

There will be active struggle against this doctrine. We who have struggled against it have committed ourselves to the freedom of all colonies. Many of these territories are neighbours of ours, and it is a narrow way of looking at it if any Power thinks they can continue to maintain directly or indirectly their colonial rule.

If the peoples prepare for war, and in existing circumstances, it is difficult to say that people should not prepare to defend themselves, they must have clean hands.

The ink still wet on the 1945 instruments of surrender, the emergence of regional political and ideological dogma across the globe again threatened international stability. As the so-called Four-Power victors increasingly bickered over ownership of the defeated Germany, burgeoning nationalist movements in British and French overseas territories became far more active and vociferous in their demands for self-determination.

While Joseph Stalin was uncompromisingly intent on Soviet Communist expansionism in Europe, Mao Zedong was basking in the success of his Communist revolution in China. Chairman Mao desired to be the champion of the oppressed masses, espousing the formation of peoples liberation movements in the European colonies. Red China and Russia would provide the instruments of insurrection: ideological indoctrination and war materiel extremely attractive to nationalists pressing for self-government and independence.

In Southeast Asia, Japan had convincingly shown that white invincibility was a myth. The very British-armed anti-Japanese resistance movements, dominated by Chinese Communists, now turned their backs on their European masters. The transition to self-determination was relatively peaceful in Burma, but prolonged and bloody struggles ensued in the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) and French Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos).

The sudden proliferation of nationalist movements amongst her territories saw the still war-crippled Britain trying to save an imploding empire liberal pressure at home added to the problem. Flashpoints of armed dissent appeared across the legacy that was Pax Britannica Malaya, Kenya, Cyprus, Borneo, Palestine, Suez, Aden.

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