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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jan-2026 13:57:30 JST Adrianna Tan

   TIL that after the Malayan Communist Party lost the guerilla war, a bunch of them decamped to Hunan, China, from which they broadcast revolutionary radio ‘Suara Revolusi Malaya’ (voice of the Malayan revolution).

   They did so until the 80s, when China ‘opened up’ and Lee Kuan Yew requested that Deng shut down that station. Shortly after, they stopped broadcasting.

   This book is a collection of transcripts of those broadcasts over the years

   https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/publicationsg/details.html?uuid=37ce8adb-7152-49aa-b4c0-9d1015db27b3

   #TootSea #Malaysia #Singapore #China

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jan-2026 14:05:56 JST Adrianna Tan

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     @sortius oh yeah anti colonialism was a big part of the struggle

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     sortius :Fire_Bisexual: (sortius@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jan-2026 14:05:57 JST sortius :Fire_Bisexual:

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     @skinnylatte my dad was actually in Malaysia fighting them as party of the Royal Navy taskforce assigned to the "hearts and minds" missions there.

     Not that there's any admission of this stuff yet

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Jan-2026 14:21:26 JST Adrianna Tan

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     When I was in college, I wrote about the female soldiers of the guerilla war. It was my first paper published of any sort

     https://www.iias.asia/the-newsletter/article/forgotten-women-warriors-malayan-communist-party