BANGKOK, Sept 16 –Chin Peng, the former secretary-general of the outlawed Communist Party of Malaya (CPM), died in a hospital here early this morning, according to Bangkok Post online report.
He was just over a month short of his 89th birthday. He was born on Oct 21, 1924. The former communist guerrilla has been living in exile for several decades after the attempt to establish a communist state in Malaya, and later Malaysia,
failed.
He made several attempts to return to Malaysia, but was refused entry as the memory of the bloody insurgency that he led was still strong among some Malaysians.
— BERNAMA
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