 Malayan Races Liberation Army

The Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA), often mistranslated as the Malayan Races Liberation Army, was a communist guerrilla army that fought for Malayan independence from the British Empire during the Malayan Emergency (1948-1960) and later fought against the Malaysian government in the Communist insurgency in Malaysia (1968–1989).Their leader was an anti-fascist and trade union activist known as Chin Peng (pronounced Chin-Pong) who had previously been awarded an OBE by the British for waging a guerrilla war against the Japanese occupation of Malaya.