Back جيش التحرير الوطني المالايوي Arabic Ejército de Liberación Nacional Malayo Spanish Armée de libération des peuples de Malaisie French Tentera Pembebasan Rakyat Malaya Malay Освободительная армия народов Малайи Russian மலாயா தேசிய விடுதலை இராணுவம் Tamil 马来亚民族解放军 Chinese

Malayan National Liberation Army

Malayan National Liberation Army
馬來亞民族解放軍
Tentera Pembebasan Nasional Malaya
Leader
Dates of operationFebruary 1, 1949 (1949-02-01) – December 2, 1989 (1989-12-02)
Allegiance Communist Party of Malaya
Group(s)
Active regionsNorthern Malaya and Southern Thailand
Ideology
Political positionFar-left
Size8,000[1][2][3]
Allies
Opponents United Kingdom
Battles and wars
The Straits Times advertising cash bounties by the British military for the capture of MNLA leader Chin Peng. These bounties often backfired and turned Communist leaders into folk heroes.

The Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA) was a Communist guerrilla army that fought for Malayan independence from the British Empire during the Malayan Emergency (1948–1960) and later fought against the Malaysian government in the Communist insurgency in Malaysia (1968–1989).[4] Many MNLA fighters were former members of the Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA),[5] including its leader Chin Peng.[6]

The group was also referred to as the Malayan Races Liberation Army owing to a mistranslation.

In 1989 the Communist Party of Malaya signed a peace treaty with the Malaysian state, and the MNLA and the Party settled in villages in southern Thailand.

  1. ^ Malaya Emergency Tourism Malaysia Archived 8 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Wilson, John; Swati, Parashar (2005). Terrorism in Southeast Asia: Implications for South Asia. Pearson Education India. p. 203. ISBN 8129709988.
  3. ^ Crawford, Beverly; Lipshutz, Ronnie D. (1998). The Myth Of Ethnic Conflict. University of California at Berkeley. p. 3. ISBN 978-0877251989.
  4. ^ Postgate, Malcolm; Air Historical Branch, Ministry of Defence (1992). Operation Firedog : air support in the Malayan emergency, 1948-1960. London: H.M.S.O. pp. 4–14. ISBN 9780117727243.
  5. ^ Newsinger, John (2015). British Counterinsurgency (2nd ed.). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 34–35. ISBN 978-0-230-29824-8.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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