The 'Forgotten' Insurgency and Defence Twisting

A report prepared by the Nature of Service Branch, Department of Defence, (NOSB) for the Parliamentary Petitions Committee dated April 2014, states:

The 1968-89 Insurgency has been described as … a low-intensity campaign of subversion and counter-subversion in Singapore and sporadic jungle skirmishes in Malaysia.

This is clearly misleading. The article describes the Insurgency as ‘… a serious security threat that required the combined efforts and resources of the Malaysia, Thai and Singapore governments to resolve’. It also reports ‘… sabotage and bombings against government installations and personnel of both sides of the Causeway … [and] open bloody battles with the Malaysian government …’.

The complete sentence quoted above reads: ‘The Second Emergency gradually developed into a low-intensity campaign of subversion and counter-subversion in Singapore and sporadic jungle skirmishes in Malaysia’.

Reference:

 The "forgotten" insurgency that failed - Ong Weichong and Kumar Ramakrishna

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