Malayan National Liberation Army | |
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馬來亞民族解放軍 Tentera Pembebasan Kebangsaan Malaya | |
Dates of operation | February 1, 1949 | – December 2, 1989
Allegiance | Communist Party of Malaya |
Group(s) | |
Active regions | Northern Malaya and Southern Thailand |
Ideology | |
Political position | Far-left |
Size | 8,000[1][2][3] |
Allies |
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Opponents | United Kingdom
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Battles and wars | |
The Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA), often mistranslated as the Tentera Pembebasan Kebangsaan Malaya, was a communist guerrilla army that fought for Malayan independence from the British Empire during the Malayan Emergency (1948–1960) and later fought against the Malaysian government in the Communist insurgency in Malaysia (1968–1989).[4] Their central committee was a trade union activist known as Chin Peng who had previously been awarded an OBE by the British for waging a guerrilla war against the Japanese occupation of Malaya.[5] Many MNLA fighters were former members of the Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA) which had been previously trained and funded by the British to fight against Japan during the Second World War.[6]
In 1989 the Communist Party of Malaya signed a peace treaty with the Malaysian state and the MNLA and the Party settled in villages in southern Thailand.
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