[list_indonesia] [ppiindia] Malaysian ex-rebel in return bid
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Last Updated: Friday, 4 March, 2005, 18:43 GMT
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Malaysian ex-rebel in return bid
By Jonathan Kent
BBC News, Kuala Lumpur
Chin Peng was once the British empire's most wanted man
A former Malaysian guerrilla leader has gone to court to win the
right to return to the land of his birth.
Chin Peng led the Communist Party of Malaya in a decade-long
insurgency against colonial rule.
He says he wants to return to Malaysia to visit his parents'
graves. The Malaysian government has previously rejected his applications.
Once dubbed the British empire's most wanted, he is one of the few
surviving leaders from the age of revolution.
He fought alongside the British during the Japanese occupation of
Malaya, but in 1948 he turned on the colonists and tried to drive them from his
country.
Missing home
For 12 years he and his band of predominantly ethnic Chinese
fighters tied down a force of more than 100,000 Commonwealth troops despite
being outnumbered nearly 20 to one.
Some 10,000 guerrillas, soldiers and civilians died in the
conflict.
Though the Communists signed a peace treaty with the Malaysian
government in 1989, Chin Peng has not been allowed to return home. So from
exile in Thailand, he petitioned the high court in the Malaysian state of
Penang.
Now 80 years old, he wants to see once more the town where he grew
up and visit family graves and he says he wants to live out his last days here.
His autobiography, My Side of History, published 18 months ago, has
been a huge hit in Malaysia.
Few people here had heard the story of the "Emergency", as the
campaign against communism was known, told from the guerrillas' point of view.
According to Malaysia's state news agency, Prime Minister Abdullah
Badawi said he would wait for the outcome of the court case before deciding how
to handle the matter.
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