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Preface
Hard
cover, 278 pages, this book refers to a wholesale application of a
primary method of counter-insurgency, where over ONE MILLION persons
in Malaya were regrouped or resettled in the early fifties, to
rupture the links between the Malayan Communist Party’s guerillas
and the Min Yuen or supporting masses movement. They were forcibly
removed from their homes, loaded into trucks and resettled, which
initially meant little more than assignment to a particular area of
earth on which to rebuild their lives. New villages were behind
barbed wire, flood-lit, guarded and under curfew from sundown. All
daytime traffic, in and out, was thoroughly searched, for a spoonful
of rice concealed in a girl’s bodice, multiplied by thousands, could
give sustenance to those in the jungle. These previously scattered
rural masses had no longer the potential of a sea in which the
guerilla could swim like a fish. |
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