The Malayan Emergency
Examining the communist insurgency and the path to Merdeka.
Key Questions
- 1Why was the MCP unable to win popular support among all ethnic groups?
- 2How did the "Briggs Plan" change the course of the conflict?
- 3To what extent was the Emergency a war of decolonisation?
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