1948 AD–1960 AD
Counterinsurgency and resettlement in the Malayan Emergency
British Empire · Colonization & sovereignty · War & conquest · Resistance & colonized agency · Migration & diaspora · Decolonization & independence
The Malayan Communist Party’s guerrillas fought colonial and later independent government. The Briggs Plan isolated insurgents through food controls, detention, and relocation of nearly half a million rural residents, chiefly Chinese, into “New Villages”; independence in 1957 preceded the emergency’s end
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