China Aiding Malaysian ‘Liberation League’

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30960, 17 January 1966, Page 9

China Aiding Malaysian ‘Liberation League’

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HONG KONG, Jan. 13. China disclosed today that it was helping a new clandestine organisation dedicated to the overthrow of the Government of Malaysia, the “New York Times” news service reported. Hsinhua, the official press agency, announced that a mission of the National Liberation League and National Liberation Army of Malay, headed by P. V. Sanna, had been welcomed to Peking. The organisation is similar to the Thailand Patriotic Front (T.P.E.), which was established in Peking on January 1, 1965, and is directing Communist subversive activities in north-eastern and southern provinces of Thailand.

Both the T.P.E. and the new Malayan organisation are modelled on the South Vietnam Liberation Front, the

political arm of the Viet Cong. The arrival of Sanna in China suggested that the centre of the “Crush Malaysia” campaign might be shifting from Djakarta to Peking. Since suppression in October of the Communist Party in Indonesia, and the decline of Chinese influence there, confrontation against Malaysia has slackened.

In a speech at a Peking banquet, Mr Sarma said his organisation would use Chinese tactics in seeking dismemberment of Malaysia.