Batang Kali massacre

When

12 Dec 1948

Kind

Massacre

Deaths

24

Coordinates

3.47° N, 101.63° E

Description

massacre of civilians by British soldiers during the Malayan Emergency

1948 massacre by British soldiers of defenceless men during the Malayan Emergency

The Batang Kali massacre was the killing of 24 unarmed male civilians in Batang Kali by the British Army's Scots Guards on 12 December 1948. The massacre took place in Batang Kali, Malaya during the Malayan Emergency, a communist insurgency involving the British Commonwealth and communist guerrillas belonging to the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA).

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