Independence & Merdeka · event 4 of 10

1948

The Emergency. A communist insurgency begins and lasts twelve years. Around half a million rural Chinese are resettled into guarded ‘New Villages’. It is never officially called a war, because the planters’ insurance covered civil disturbance and not war.

The Independence & Merdeka era

  1. 1942
  2. 1945
  3. 1946
  4. 1948
  5. 1957
  6. 1960
  7. 1963
  8. 1965
  9. 1969
  10. 1971

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