Chin Peng
| Chin Peng | |
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Headline on page 1 of The Straits Times of 1952
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| Born |
Ong Boon Hua 21 October 1924 Sitiawan, Perak, Federated Malay States, British Malaya |
| Died | 16 September 2013 (aged 88) Bangkok, Thailand |
| Residence | Malaya, Thailand |
| Nationality | Malayan |
| Successor | Abdullah CD |
| Political party | Malayan Communist Party |
| Spouse(s) | Khoon Wah Keng |
Chin Peng (Chinese: 陳平; pinyin: Chén Píng), former OBE, (21 October 1924 – 16 September 2013) born Ong Boon Hua (Chinese: 王文華; pinyin: Wáng Wénhuá) was a long-time leader of the Malayan Communist Party (MCP). A determined anti-colonialist, he led the party's guerrilla insurgency in the Malayan Emergency, fighting against British and Commonwealth forces in an attempt to establish an independent communist state. After the MCP's defeat and subsequent Malayan independence, Chin waged a second campaign against Malaya and, after 1963, the new state of Malaysia in an attempt to replace its government with a communist one from exile, until signing a peace accord with the Malaysian government in 1989.
Chin Peng died at the age of 88, in Bangkok, Thailand. Prior to his death, he was living in exile in Thailand and had not been permitted to return to Malaysia contrary to one of the conditions of the 1989 peace agreement.
Chin Peng was born on 21 October 1924, into a middle-class family, in the small seaside town of Sitiawan, in Perak state, Malaya. His father went to live in Sitiawan in 1920. He set up a bicycle, tyre and spare motor parts business with the help of a relative from Singapore.
Chin Pang attended a Chinese language school in Sitiawan. In 1937 he joined the Chinese Anti Enemy Backing Up Society (AEBUS), formed that year to send aid to China in response to Japan's aggression. According to Chin and Hack, he was not a communist then. He was in charge of anti-Japanese activities at his school. He has been a supporter of Sun Yat-sen. By early 1939 he had embraced Communism. He planned to go to Yan'an, the renowned communist base in China, but was persuaded to remain in Malaya and take on heavier responsibilities in the newly formed Malayan Communist Party.
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