 The organization's leader Chin Peng has called this a mistranslation and corrected it to "Malayan National Liberation Army" (MNLA).The name of the MNLA in Malay () could also be translated as the Malayan People's Liberation Army although extant records show that the title "Tentera Pembebasan Nasional Malaya" or MNLA became the normal self-identity by the 1970s.The MNLA was a guerrilla force created by the Malayan Communist Party (MCP).