Chin Peng (Traditional Chinese: 陳平, Simplified Chinese: 陈平, Mandarin Chén Píng) (born 1924), was born Ong Boon Hua (Mandarin: Wang Yonghua or Wang Wenhua Chinese: 王文華) in Sitiawan, and was a long-time leader of the Malayan Communist Party (MCP). He rose to prominence during World War II when many ethnic Chinese residents of Malaya took to the jungle to fight a guerrilla war against the Japanese. These fighters, inspired by the example of the Chinese Communist Party, became known as the Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA). Chin Peng was the liaison officer between the MPAJA and the British Lord Mountbatten, the leader of the British South-East Asian Command (SEAC). In the course of the War he was awarded an OBE and two campaign medals by Britain. He was elected the Secretary General of the Malayan Communist Party after the betrayal of previous leader Loi Tek who had turned out to be an agent for both the British and the Japanese and had denounced the leadership of the Party to the Japanese secret police. Chin Peng was the most senior surviving member. Traditional Chinese characters are one of two standard character sets of printed contemporary Chinese written language. ... Simplified Chinese characters (Simplified Chinese: 简体字; Traditional Chinese: 簡體字; pinyin: jiǎntǐzì; also called 简化字/簡化字, jiǎnhuàzì) are one of two standard character sets of printed contemporary Chinese written language. ... This article is on all of the Northern Chinese dialects. ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article is on all of the Northern Chinese dialects. ... Sitiawan (from Malay: Setia Kawan) is a region in the Manjung district of Perak, a state of Malaysia located on the west coast of that countrys Malay Peninsula. ... Communist Party of Malaya (CPM), also known as the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) until the 1960s was founded in Singapore in 1930 with a predominantly Chinese membership, the party carried out armed resistance to the Japanese during World War II. From 1948 to 1960, its military arm, the Malayan Peoples... Combatants Allied Powers Axis Powers Commanders {{{commander1}}} {{{commander2}}} Strength {{{strength1}}} {{{strength2}}} Casualties 17 million military deaths 7 million military deaths World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th century conflict that engulfed much of the globe and is accepted as the largest and deadliest... Han Chinese (Simplified: 汉; Traditional: 漢; Pinyin: hàn) is a term which refers to the majority ethnic group within China and the largest single human ethnic group in the world. ... The Federation of Malaya, or in Malay Persekutuan Tanah Melayu, was formed in 1948 from the British settlements of Penang and Malacca and the nine Malay states and replaced the Malayan Union. ... Guerrilla War redirects here. ... Communist Party of China flag The Communist Party of China (Simplified Chinese: 中国共产党; Traditional Chinese: 中國共産黨; pinyin: Zhōnggu ngchǎndǎng) is the ruling party of the Peoples Republic of China. ... The Malayan Peoples Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA) originated from among ethnic Chinese cadres of the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) who became increasingly opposed to Japan due to its invasion of China in 1937. ... Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (June 25, 1900 – August 27, 1979) was a British admiral and statesman and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions, in decreasing order of seniority: Knight or Dame Grand... A Medal can mean three things: a wearable medal awarded by a government for services to a country (such as Armed force service); strictly speaking this only refers to a medal of coin-like appearance, but informally the word also refers to an Order (decoration); a table medal awarded by... Actually, it isnt Loi Tek, but Lai Teck - he betrayed the MCP in 1948 when he disappeared with the partys money. ...

He gained notoriety for being the leader of the MCP armed insurgency, which led to a large number of civilian casualties. Some have claimed this was in contrast to the stance adopted by Mao Zedong and his policy of the Eight Points of Attention to avoid civilian casualties. He was exiled from Malaya during the Malayan Emergency from 1948 and remains so until this day. He was a firm anti-colonialist who opposed the British rule of Malaya but wish to rule under Malayan Communist Party. That is the reason, he continued his struggle even after Malaysia achieved independence. Civilian casualties is a military term describing civilian, non-combatant persons killed or injured by direct military action. ... ▶(?) (December 26, 1893 – September 9, 1976; Mao Tse-tung in Wade-Giles) was the chairman of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China from 1943 and the chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China from 1945 until his death. ... The Three Rules of Discipline and Eight Points for Attention is a military doctrine that was issued in 1928 by Mao Zedong and his associates for the Chinese Red Army, who were then fighting against the Kuomintang. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Federation of Malaya, or in Malay Persekutuan Tanah Melayu, was formed in 1948 from the British settlements of Penang and Malacca and the nine Malay states and replaced the Malayan Union. ...

Since the beginning of the 2000's, he has applied to be permitted back into Malaysia, and a complex legal issue arises out of this. Hearings whether to permit him or not to come back to Malaysia were scheduled to occur on May 25, 2005 but the High Court postponed the hearing to July 25. May 25 is the 145th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (146th in leap years). ... 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... July 25 is the 206th day (207th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 159 days remaining. ...

His return is opposed by surviving members of Malayan Communist Party victims, those who previously served in armed force against him, and members of the public. There have been a resurgence of account of Malayan Communist Party atrocity in newspapers by those who against his return to Malaysia (such as the Ex-Servicemen's Association of Malaysia).

Chin Peng has given lectures in the National University of Singapore (NUS) during his exile in Thailand. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

The current Malaysian Prime minister, Abdullah Badawi, suggested the Government might reconsider its position in the future. He said he would wait for the outcome of the Court case before making up a decision.

The Emergency

There exists a certain amount of controversy whether he was responsible for the deaths of civilians and colonialists, marked when members of the Malayan Communist Party killed three pro-British civilians in 1948 in Sungei Siput. Many Singaporean historians and anticommunists allege that Chin Peng knew about and ordered the killings, although there is a degree of dissent over this. Some argue that Chin Peng was forty kilometres south and was at a fellow party member's bungalow, and was ignorant of the incident. In his book, written many years later and after the defeat of the MCP, Chin Peng states clearly that he did not order the attacks. In any event Chin Peng was the leader of the Party and the killers operated under his orders and through his inspiration. The MPAJA had spent most of the war killing ethnic Chinese who collaborated with the Japanese rather than actual Japanese soldiers, so it is clear that this was similar to their past behaviour. Inevitably, the killings forced the Malayan colonial administration to declare a state of emergency. This also provoked an immediate crackdown on the Malayan Communist Party, when British troops raided his house. Chin Peng managed to escape, but did lost various key documents, including his passport in the process. Unsure of the status of the rest of the party, he eventually learned that that his comrade Ah Hai was hiding in Ipoh, and devised a scheme with his sister, disguised as a couple on a reunion, such that he managed to re-establish a secret base there. From then on, the Malayan Communist Party became an underground insurgency resisting British suppression of the movement. Look up Controversy on Wiktionary, the free dictionary A controversy is a contentious dispute, a disagreement in opinions over which parties are actively arguing. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Anti-communism is opposition to communist ideology, organization, or government, on either a theoretical or practical level. ... A bungalow is any single story house. ... A state of emergency is a governmental declaration that may suspend certain normal functions of government, may work to alert citizens to alter their normal behaviors, or may order government agencies to implement emergency preparedness plans. ... Raid or RAID may refer to: Raid (police action), when police invade a building or area. ... The title page of European Union passports bears the name European Union, then the name of the issuing country, in the official languages of all EU countries. ... Comrade is a term meaning friend, colleague, or ally. ... The location of Ipoh on the map of Peninsula Malaysia. ... Underground as an adjective commonly refers to something that is either below the ground or outside of public consciousness. ...

This initial resistance by the Malayan Communist Party eventually erupted into full hostility, and developed into a form of a civil war, which which became the Malayan Emergency that lasted for twelve years until 1960. In 1960 Chin Peng wished to give up the armed struggle, but, after travelling to China, was told by Deng Xiaoping that South-East Asia was ripe for Revolution. The MCP maintained a theoretical armed struggle for decades after. The death toll eventually climbed into the thousands. Those sympathetic to Chin Peng tend to portray the violence perpetrated by the MCP as defensive and reactionary, while right-wing opponents tend to portray it as aggressive and unethical. During the Cultural Revolution the MCP was split into three factions and Chin Peng ordered purges resulting in mass trials and many summary executions. A civil war is a war in which the competing parties are segments of the same country or empire. ... The Malayan Emergency was an insurrection and guerrilla war of the Malay Races Liberation Army against the British and Malayan administration from 1948-1960 in what is now Malaysia. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Deng Xiaoping Deng Xiaoping ▶(?) (Simplified: 邓小平; Traditional: 鄧小平; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Teng Hsiao-ping; August 22, 1904—February 19, 1997) was a revolutionary elder in the Communist Party of China (CPC) who served as the de facto ruler of the Peoples Republic of China from the late 1970s to... In politics, right-wing, the political right, or simply the right, are terms which refer, with no particular precision, to the segment of the political spectrum in opposition to left-wing politics. ... Ethics is a general term for what is often described as the science (study) of morality. In philosophy, ethical behavior is that which is good or right. ... A poster during the Cultural Revolution. ...

Chronology

• October 22, 1924: birth.
• January 1940: Accepted as probationary member of the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM); put in charge of communist members in Sitiawan.
• July 4, 1940: Leaves home.
• December 1941: Communists’ offer of help accepted; joins the fight against the Japanese.
• January 10, 1942: The first batch of the Malayan Peoples Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA).
• 1942: Meets future wife, Khoon Wah.
• 1945: World War II ends.
• January 1946: Awarded 2 war medals; boycotts tour of British bases; forced to sign letter of apology.
• Mid-October 1946: In Penang, Yeung Kuo reveals that Lai Teck has betrayed the CPM; Lai Teck subsequently absconds with most of party’s money.
• March 6, 1947: Truth is revealed about Lai Teck; he is killed. Chin Peng made secretary-general of CPM
• 1948: Three planters killed at Sungei Siput; Emergency declared; CPM declared illegal.
• Late 1950: Briggs arrives in Malaya and implements "Brigg's plan" – resettling people into "New Villages". If the people refused to move, the British would burn down their house. This made it difficult for the communists to gain food supplies from the "Min Yuen", their supporters in the villages.
• October 6, 1951: Sir Henry Gurney, British High Commissioner in Malaya, is assassinated on Gap road by Siew Ma.
• February 7, 1952: Sir Gerald Templer arrives to take the place of Gurney, and implements harsh measures against communists.
• December 28, 1955: Baling talks held with David Marshall and Tunku Abdul Rahman, unsuccessful because of surrender terms. After Baling talks, Chin Peng flees to Thailand. Ah Hai replaces him as acting Secretary-General in Malaya.
• 1960: The Emergency is declared over. However, fighting still continues.
• December 2, 1989: A peace treaty is signed between the communists, Thailand and Malaysia. The long, hard war the British had preferred to term an emergency was over.
• October 6-8, 2004: Chin Peng visits Singapore for 3 days to speak at the Institute of South-east Asian Studies (ISEAS).
• 2005: Chin Peng is pending to return to Malaysia. His hearing was scheduled for May 25, 2005, and the High Court postponed it to July 25, 2005. This application was subsequently rejected.

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Bibliography

• My Side of History (2003) ISBN 9810486936

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External links

• Online Biography