The Sun – Shake off apathy on Batang Kali
May 17, 2012 in Articles, Spotlight
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May 17, 2012 | By Yap Mun Ching
EARLIER this month, Britain’s High Court heard for the first time testimony by Scots Guards soldiers admitting that they had killed and covered up the 1948 massacre of 24 unarmed rubber plantation workers in the village of Batang Kali.
During a judicial review of the British government’s decision not to hold an official inquiry into the incident, lawyers representing the villagers revealed statements obtained during interviews with soldiers in 1970 when the then-British Labour government ordered an investigation into persistent claims of a cover-up.
