Sunday, July 21, 2013

--Chin Peng 陳平--


Chin Peng (Chinese: 陳平, Mandarin Chén Píng), former OBE, born Ong Boon Hua (Chinese: 王文華, Pinyin Wáng Wén Huá) in 1924, was a long-time leader of the Malayan Communist Party (MCP). A determined anti-colonialist, he led the party's guerrilla insurgency in the Malayan Emergency, fighting against British and Commonwealth forces in an attempt to establish an independent Communist state. After the MCP's defeat and subsequent Malaysian independence, Chin waged a campaign against the new state of Malaysia in an attempt to replace its government with a Communist one from exile, until signing a peace accord with the Malaysian government in 1989.
Chin is currently living in exile in Thailand, and has not been permitted to return to Malaysia despite it being one of the conditions of the 1989 peace agreement.
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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chin_Peng

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