Fourteen Days' War

Fourteen Days' War
Perang 14 Hari
Part of the aftermath of World War II
LocationPeninsular Malaysia
DateAugust 1945
TargetPro-Japanese Malays and Indians, pro-Kuomintang Chinese
Attack type
Mass killings
Deathsc. 5,000–10,000 Malayans killed[1]
PerpetratorsMalayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army
MotiveRevenge on Malayan collaborators with Imperial Japan and Chinese nationalists

The Fourteen Days' War (Malay: Perang 14 Hari), also known as the Parang Panjang War (Malay: Perang Parang Panjang), refers to the violent persecution by the Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA) of Malays and Indians who had supported the Japanese occupation of Malaya and Chinese supporters of the Kuomintang in August 1945. The violence lasted up to 14 days in such places like Batu Pahat, Kuala Kangsar, Teluk Intan and others.[2]

In his 1982 book 25 Years of Independence, Abdul Samad Idris attributes the events of the Fourteen Days' War to the MPAJA's distrust of the Malay population, which was deliberately inflated by the communists.[3]

  1. ^ The Malayan Emergency in Retrospect: Organization of a Successful Counterinsurgency Effort, page 3
  2. ^ Adhar, Zaid (2021-02-26). "Sejarah hitam negara". Harakahdaily. Retrieved 2024-08-09.
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