Perhaps It Ain’t Necessarily So but it makes an intriguing tale.
“The term ‘Emergency’ (in Malaya) was used by the British to characterise the conflict in
order to avoid to referring to it as a war, because London-based insurers would not pay
out in instances of civil wars …..
The British attempted to starve the MNLA (Malayan National Liberation Army) through
food rationing, killing livestock and spraying of the herbicide Agent Orange. The British
Engaged in extrajudicial killings of unarmed villagers in violation of the Geneva Convention
……. the Briggs Plan forcibly relocated between 400,000 and 1,000,000 civilians into
concentration camps called ‘new villages’ ……..
The widespread use of decapitation on people suspected of having been guerrilas led to
the the 1952 British Malayan head scandal Similar scandal included the public display
of corpses.”
TO BE CONTINUED
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