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7 unusual facts about Malayan Communist Party


Henry Gurney

On 6 October 1951, he was shot to death on his way to Fraser's Hill for a meeting; the guerrillas of the Malayan Communist Party ambushed his Rolls Royce during the Malayan Emergency period.

L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle

Communist Party of Malaya cadres had been found with the FN FAL as well, most of them looted from dead or wounded Malaysian soldiers.

Malayan Communist Party

When Singapore fell, Lai Teck was arrested by the Japanese and became their agent.

At this time, the party was infiltrated by an apparent British agent, Lai Teck, who became Secretary-General in April 1939.

In 1946, amid a discontent with the leadership's cautious line, an investigation commenced into rumors of Lai Teck's treachery.

Malaysia Federal Route 55

On 6 October 1951, Sir Henry Gurney a British High Commissioner in Malaya was shot to death at this road on his way back to Fraser's Hill for a meeting; the guerrillas of the Malayan Communist Party ambushed his Rolls Royce during the Malayan Emergency period.

Special Operations Volunteer Force

As the British tried to repair the Malayan economy, the Malayan Communist Party, or MCP, was organizing protests against labor conditions in the country.


Ismail Abdul Rahman

When the British High Commissioner Donald MacGillivray met with the Tunku, Ismail, and the MCA's representative of H. S. Lee, he accused them of playing into the hands of the Malayan Communist Party, which was waging an armed insurgency against the British.

Kor Risik DiRaja

In 1963, when Malaysia was facing the dual threat of the Insurgency by the Malayan Communist Party the Confrontation with Indonesia, the unit was enlarged and became the Ministry of Defence Intelligence Unit under the Joint Intelligence Directorate at the Ministry of Defence (Malaysia).

PASKAU

PASKAU can trace its beginnings to the 1970s and a mortar attack by Malayan Communist Party agents from outside an RMAF airbase, Kuala Lumpur; it resulted in the destruction of a RMAF DHC-4 Caribou transport aircraft.


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