UK cover-up: 1948 British 'massacre' of Malaysian villagers

The plantation workers (24 unarmed villagers) were shot in cold blood by a 16-man patrol of Scots Guards in December 1948. Many of the victims' bodies were found to have been mutilated and their village of Batang Kali was burned to the ground. No weapons were found when the village was searched during a military operation against Chinese communists in the post-second world war Malayan emergency.


Prisoners are lined up and shot during the Malayan emergency of the late 1940s.

The British government has refused to apologize for the incident or offer reparations, and last November it said it would not hold a public inquiry into an incident that campaigners dub "Britain's My Lai massacre". A recent letter from Treasury solicitors indicates that the government is not prepared to discuss whether the killings were lawful or not.

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