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2 - Fatal Decisions

Late 1947 to 20 June 1948

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2021

Karl Hack
Karl Hack
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The Open University, Milton Keynes
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1947–8 saw fateful decisions by the MCP and the British, with these interweaving to create a spiral towards violence. This chapter traces the ‘long cold war’ that preceded and framed these events, the decision-making by both sides and how they combined both with international communism and local events at Sungei Siput to spark a full-scale insurection and counterinsurgency.

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British decisionsMCP decisionsarrestsdetentionChin Peng
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The Malayan Emergency
Revolution and Counterinsurgency at the End of Empire
 , pp. 26 - 78
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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  • Fatal Decisions
  • Karl Hack, The Open University, Milton Keynes
  • Book: The Malayan Emergency
  • Online publication: 16 December 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139942515.003
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  • Fatal Decisions
  • Karl Hack, The Open University, Milton Keynes
  • Book: The Malayan Emergency
  • Online publication: 16 December 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139942515.003
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  • Fatal Decisions
  • Karl Hack, The Open University, Milton Keynes
  • Book: The Malayan Emergency
  • Online publication: 16 December 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139942515.003
Available formats
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