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Case Study: The Struggle Of Anti British Colonialism

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The struggle of anti British colonialism’s rule domination had been going on since the 1950s. Sarawak Western border area revolutionary armed forces were restructured into the North Kalimantan People’ Guerrilla Force on 13th July 1969 after they had experienced much hardship and eventually entered the First Division. During the time they operated in the First Division coastal area (refer to Map No. 8), they faced a large-scale military siege from the ruling government on 24th February 1970 code named “Operasi Jala Raya” [The Big Net operation]. We namedcalled this round of military attack from government army the February 24th coastal area incidents. After studying the whole process of the February 24th coastal area incidents, we noted that it was different from the military operations of the Indonesian army against our revolutionary arm forces at the border area. It made us suspect that it had its political agenda judging from the strategic deployment and its tactical operations of the Big Net Operation which was coordinated by the Special Branch of police. Therefore, this military operations had a very complex presentation. During the fight, both side had some very illogical and unimaginable actions that deserves special attention and serious study. Here, I provide some information, based on my personal experience, for those cconcernare forabout …show more content…

Definitely, this siege operation was against us. However, we did not find any unusual police activities around our station. Our lookout postssentry did not find any unusual situation. It was the radio station, and not the gunshots from the enemy army’s attack on our station, that made known to us the government army’s siege operation had started about 4 hours ago. (refer to Map No.

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