I've read about this incident before...that time Malaya was
still under British colonial rule, nothing to do with the present
Malaysian government. However much I dislike them it would be
unfair to pin this on them
However if you want to read more about it you can try a book called
"The War of the Running Dogs" about the Malayan Emergency. Quite a
pretty good book about the Emergency. Lots of background info and
individual stories about the events before during and after the
Emergency. My copies not with me right now, I can't tell you the
author's name off the top of my head, I'm sorry.
Just a thought on war crimes, sometimes in war isolated incidents
occur when civilians are mistakenly put in the line of fire. Unless
there was a systematic or deliberate attempt at exterminating one
group, I think we should look at this objectively. This was a case
where the wrong people was killed, nothing else. I think while
armies should try to reduce of avoid this, I also accept that its
an unavoidable consequence of war