Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) Known as the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) until the 1960s. 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 Liberation Army, practiced guerrilla warfare in the rural areas of peninsular Malaya with the support of underground organizations in Malaya and Singapore. In the late 1980s, an estimated 500 guerrillas and the party leadership maintained themselves in the jungles of the Malaysian-Thai frontier. Guerrilla (also called a partisan) is a term borrowed from Spanish (from guerra meaning war) used to describe small combat groups. ...

It was often heavily criticised for their attacks on the civilian population, as well as the fact they were criticised by the right-wing factions in South East Asia because they had sympathies to the communist ideology. This also brought displeasure from many of their leftist associates because such actions meant they were not following the ethics found in the Eight Points of Attention, a code of conduct of communist soldiers that was championed by Mao Zedong. Communism - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... 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. ... Mao Zedong (December 26, 1893—September 9, 1976) was the chairman of the Communist Party of China from 1935 until his death. ...