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Why Is Chin Peng Instrumental In Securing Malaysia's Independence?

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History Graded Assignment Akmal Hakeem (2) Jayasuriya (18) Sean Siew (20) Jeremy Teo (24) Question: “Chin Peng claimed that the Communist Party of Malaysia was instrumental in securing Malaya’s independence in 1957.” How far do you agree with this statement? Explain your answer. Peel 1: P- The effectiveness of the MCP 's campaign and armed rebellion -explain the MCP -objectives -leadership -tactics -explain the effectiveness -how it worked Peel 2: P- The British being forced into transferring power back to the people in order to deny the MCP of Malaya (our stand) Peel 3: P- British being poor after the war -pressure from other countries -the hatred of the British by the local people -loss of prestige -power vacuum …show more content…

After the war, the British planned to give citizenship to the migrant workers who stayed in Malaya throughout the war. However the Malays, seeing themselves as the native race of Malaya, did not agree to this and so the Chinese and Indian migrant workers did not get their citizenship. This led to one of the reason why the MCP started their campaign of fighting against the British. Their main reason for starting their campaign was to drive out British Imperialism and let Malaya became independent under a communist rule. The British also knew that the MCP was getting all their resources from the farmers living near the edges of the forest. Also, most of the people who joined the MCP were workers in factories, these workers were mainly from mainland China. These workers are basically fighting for citizenship. Citizenship to these workers means a lot to them, some privileges that they could gain from gaining a citizenship is the ability to vote, thus the right to have citizenship is very important to them. Since granting independence to Malaya would in turn allow these workers to gain citizenship that they always yearn for, most of the them who help the MCP would thus stop helping since what they have been fighting for is starting to be implemented. This means that with the British granting independence and citizenship to Malaya and the Malayans respectively, most of the goals of the MCP have already been met. Since the goals were already accomplished, many of the workers in the MCP decided to stop with their campaigns and they left the MCP. Therefore, granting Malaya independence was already planned by the British and not affected by the actions of the

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