Campaigners seek compensation for 'massacre'
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Sixty years ago, a Scottish regiment in then-British Malaya shot and killed 25 villagers, in the name of fighting communism now, the Malaysian Chinese descendants are seeking compensation from Britain.
At the time, the Scottish regiment said the deceased were armed Communists trying to escape, but the sole survivor says they were unarmed villagers shot in cold blood. Their claims have been never been thoroughly investigated either by Malaysia or by Britain. Marking the sixtieth anniversary of the deaths, the Action Committee Condemning the Batang Kali Massacre visited the British High Commission in Kuala Lumpur.
Presenter: Sen Lam
Speaker: Quek Ngee Meng, from the Malaysian Action Committee Condemning the Batang Kali Massacre
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