BBC's classic 1998 account of Malayan Emergency with guerrilla leader Chin Peng narrated by Ben Kingsley

The Malayan Emergency, also known as the Anti–British National Liberation War, (1948–1960) was a guerrilla war fought in Malaya between communist pro-independence fighters of the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA) and the military forces of the Federation of Malaya and Commonwealth (British Empire).

The conflict was an undeclared war with most of the action occurring in the border area between Indonesia and East Malaysia on the island of Borneo (known as Kalimantan in Indonesia). However Indonesia also conducted lower intensity covert …

In 1948, an undeclared war on terror exploded in the jungles of Malaya. British and Malayan security forces fought a formidable guerilla army determined to create a Communist republic. They failed – but by the time the war ended 12 years later, tens of thousands of people had been killed, both combatants and civilians.

In June 1948 a state of emergency was declared in Malaya, South East Asia, after the murder of three rubber planters by the Malayan Races’ Liberation Army (MRLA), a guerrilla army pursuing an independent Malaya.

2018年7月8日 · This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Malayan Emergency, an undeclared war fought between the Communist Party of Malaya’s (CPM) guerrilla army and the former British colonial government of Malaya. Modern-day independent Malaysia would emerge from the tumult.

The Malayan Emergency (1948-60) was one of the few successful counter-insurgency operations undertaken by the Western powers during the Cold War. It saw British and Commonwealth forces defeat a communist revolt in Malaya.

2021年10月4日 · The Malayan Emergency was a conflict that lasted between 1948 and 1960 between the British Empire and communist insurgents on the Malayan Peninsula. The conflict was one of the few successful counter-insurgency wars fought by a …

2020年10月5日 · Malaya – the Undeclared War (Malayan Emergency) The Communists termed it the Anti-British National Liberation War. Despite the communists’ defeat in 1960, communist leader Chin Peng renewed the insurgency in 1967; it lasted until 1989, and became known as the Communist Insurgency War.

3 天之前 · While the collapse of the British Empire is often portrayed as the result of benevolence, this could not be further from the truth. This article, from a new booklet published by the Revolutionary Communist Party – the British section of the Revolutionary Communist International – examines the real role of British imperialism during the 1948-60 Malayan “Emergency”.