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Members of the Malayan Communist Party kill three British plantation managers in Sungai Siput; in response, British Malaya declares a state of emergency.
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Malayan Communist Party
Far-left political party in Malaya
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Sungai Siput
Mukim (township) in Kuala Kangsar District, Perak, Malaysia
Sungai Siput (U) (Malay for 'snail river', Jawi: سوڠاي سيڤوت: Chinese: 和豐) is a town and mukim in Kuala Kangsar District, Perak, Malaysia, covering 155,141 hectares, 61.5% of the total area of Kuala Kangsar. Sungai Siput falls under the management of the Kuala Kangsar Municipal…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
British Malaya
British territories on the Malay Peninsula (1826–1957)
The term British Malaya loosely describes a set of states on the Malay Peninsula and the island of Singapore that were brought under British hegemony or control between the late 18th and the mid-20th century. Unlike the term "British India", which excludes the Indian princely…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Malayan Emergency
1948–1960 British colonial war in Malaya
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