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Malaysia: Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten congratulates Chin Peng of the Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army in Singapore (1945).

Malaysia: Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten congratulates Chin Peng of the Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army in Singapore (1945).

Chin Peng (born 1924), was born Ong Boon Hua (Mandarin: Wang Yonghua or Wang Wenhua) in Sitiawan, and was a long-time leader of the Malayan Communist Party (MCP). A determined anti-colonialist, he was noted for leading the party's guerrilla insurgency in the Malayan Emergency and beyond.

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