Back جيش التحرير الوطني المالايوي Arabic Ejército de Liberación Nacional Malayo Spanish Armée de libération des peuples de Malaisie French Tentera Pembebasan Rakyat Malaya Malay Освободительная армия народов Малайи Russian மலாயா தேசிய விடுதலை இராணுவம் Tamil 马来亚民族解放军 Chinese

Malayan National Liberation Army

Malayan National Liberation Army
馬來亞民族解放軍
Tentera Pembebasan Kebangsaan Malaya
Dates of operationFebruary 1, 1949 (1949-02-01) – December 2, 1989 (1989-12-02)
Allegiance Communist Party of Malaya
Group(s)
Active regionsNorthern Malaya and Southern Thailand
Ideology
Political positionFar-left
Size8,000[1][2][3]
Allies
Opponents United Kingdom
Battles and wars
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The Straits Times advertising cash bounties by the British military for the capture of MNLA central committee Chin Peng. These bounties often backfired and turned communist central committee into folk heroes.

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.

  1. ^ Tourism Malaysia http://www.spiritofmalaysia.co.uk/page/malaya-emergency Archived 8 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Terrorism in Southeast Asia: Implications for South Asia from The New Delhi International Workshop on International Terrorism in Southeast Asia and its Likely Implications for South Asia April 2004 – Pub. Pearson Education India, 2005 ISBN 8129709988 p. 203
  3. ^ "The Myth Of Ethnic Conflict" by Beverly Crawford & Ronnie D. Lipshutz University of California at Berkeley 1998 ISBN 978-0877251989 p. 3
  4. ^ Postgate, Malcolm; Air Historical Branch, Ministry of Defence (1992). Operation Firedog : air support in the Malayan emergency, 1948-1960. London: H.M.S.O. pp. 4–14. ISBN 9780117727243.
  5. ^ Burleigh, Michael (2013). Small Wars, Faraway Places: Global Insurrection and the Making of the Modern World 1945–1965. New York: Viking – Penguin Group. p. 165. ISBN 978-0-670-02545-9.
  6. ^ Newsinger, John (2015). British Counterinsurgency (2nd ed.). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 34–35. ISBN 978-0-230-29824-8.

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