File:This is the War in Malaya.jpg

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English: "This is the War in Malaya", published by a British communist newspaper called the Daily Worker (Morning Star) on the 28 April 1952. This article sparked a political scandal in Britain which led to the exposure of the widespread use of headhunting by British allied forces during the Malayan Emergency, especially among Iban trackers from headhunting tribes which had been hired by the British.
Date Photograph taken in April 1951. First published 28 April 1952.
Source 28 April 1952, Daily Worker (Morning Star)
Author Anonymous author

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Daily Worker publicises the widespread practice of headhunting by British forces during the Malayan Emergency.

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