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Word: batuarang (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...green-uniformed rebel band took over the small mining town of Batuarang, just north of the placid Malayan capital of Kuala Lumpur. While some of the rebels pinned the police to their barracks with heavy automatic fire, others expertly sabotaged the coal mine-the only one operating in all Malaya. Shooting up a school bus and murdering a foreman and four workers, 37 of the bandits, including a teen-age girl, swept down on the railway station and held up an incoming train. The rebel leader emptied the railroad cash box, snapped: "We only want European property. We are going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MALAYA: Majority of Guns | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

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