British soldiers shot and killed about 18 innocent Chinese rubber tappers at Batang Kali, near Gentings during the Emergency of 1948-62. No one was punished for this incident. It was also covered up by the Malaysian govt.
Up till today, no one wants to dig up this matter......Can anyone shed more light one this hidden war crime?
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