On 11th December 1948, a unit of the 2nd Battalion of the Scots
Guards entered Batang Kali, a small hamlet in the Selangor area of
Malaya. The soldiers then rounded up and massacred 25 Chinese
villagers and burnt many of the dwellings. When word leaked out,
the authorities attempted to justify the killings by saying that
the victims had been detainees who had tried to escape:
There matters rested until, 20 years later, The People, a London
newspaper, challenged a statement by George Brown, a leading Labour
Party politician, discussing revelations of the My Lai massacre [by
Americans in Vietnam], that ... there are an awful lot of spectres
in our cupboard too...
... Among those who read this challenge was a Scots Guardsman who
had been a member of the patrol. Eventually, he and three other
members of the patrol swore statements on oath to the effect that
the 25 Chinese had been massacred and that they were not trying to
escape. The victims, moreover, were all civilians, and this is
just one of the many British My Lais in Malaya.[27]
http://www.troopsoutmovement.com/oliversarmychap5.htm
British war crimes must not be forgotten.......just like Japanese
war crimes.....pui......
