Justice sought in the UK over Malaysian deaths (Video)

British forces killed 24 men suspected of helping communist rebels during the Malaya Emergency, 62 years ago this weekend. The soldiers, from the Scots Guards, originally claimed that a group of rubber plantation workers were trying to escape capture in the village of Batang Kali, in what is now Malaysia. But since then, some of [...]

Justice sought in UK over Malaysia deaths

Chong Koon Ying was only nine years old when British soldiers came to the rubber plantation and killed her father. Today, on her first visit to the scene in decades, the stream helps her work out where the rows of trees used to be, where the family lived and where 24 men were shot dead [...]

Malaysian campaigners ask Queen to press for action over 1948 deaths

Campaigners in Malaysia have petitioned the Queen to use her influence in gaining an apology and compensation from the British Government over an alleged massacre of 24 unarmed villagers by British soldiers in 1948. The move comes after a request was rejected for an investigation into the killing of the 24 ethnic Chinese in the [...]