Malayan Emergency Era is started from 1948 to 1960, it bring misery and sorrow to the people of Malaya. After the end of the World War 2, Japan left the Malayan economy devastation and it has cause so many problems to the society. Problems such as low salary, high unemployment rate and cause the food inflation levels increase 3% above the healthy levels. There is quite a lot of labour unrest and strikes happen between 1946 and 1948. The British was try to repair the Malaya economy during that time because Malaya is rich of rubber and tin industries and this material is important to British to recovery after the War World 2. Demonstrators were severely dealt with, take measures, including the deportation and arrests them. Arrest and deportation to demonstrators cause them become more militant. On the 16 June 1948, the first overt act of war occurred when three European plantation managers were killed at Sungai Siput, Perak. The Malayan Communist Party was ordered to attack them according with Soviet global strategy. The British has brought emergency measures into law, first is in response to the Sungai Perak case after that, in July started nationwide. When under the measures, the Malayan Communist Party and other parties were outlawed and the police have the power to imprison the communists and those who are assisting them. The Malayan Communist Party that led by the Chin Peng is retreated to village areas and forming the MNLA, it also known as Malayan Races Liberation Army or the Malayan People’s Liberation Army.
After formed of the MNLA, MNLA started a guerrilla war, the main target is the colonial resource extraction industries which are the rubber plantations and tin mines. The MNLA is a party that reformation of the Malayan People’s Anti-Japanese Army. Malayan Communist Party is the main resistance guerrillas in Malaya against the Japanese occupation. When during the last phase of World War 2 the British help the Malayan People’s Anti-Japanese Army by training and armed them secretly. Malayan People’s Anti-Japanese Army was dismiss in December 1945, after the dismiss the Malayan People’s Anti-Japanese Army pass all of their weapons to the British Military Administration. People who is agreed to dismiss have economic incentives offered by the British but there was about 4000 people doesn’t want these economic incentives so they reject it and went underground.
The MNLA are commonly used guerrilla tactics they go sabotage facilities, destroy the infrastructure and transportation, and attack tin mines and rubber plantations. Main support for the MNLA is mostly Chinese races around 500,000 of the 3.12 million that living in Malaya. These 500,000 was been referred as ‘squatters’ and most of them are farmers living in the jungles where the MNLA were based. MNLA base in the jungles allowed them can supply food by themselves, especially can providing them a source of new recruits. The Malay races supported MNLA in smaller numbers only. The MNLA gained the support from the Chinese because they have been denied equal rights in the election vote, no land rights to speak of and they are often is very poor. The supply organization of the MNLA is called ‘Min Yuen.’ It has a total population of contacts in the network. Supplying material and food is important to MNLA but it is also important to MNLA as an information collector. Camps and hideouts of the MNLA are in the inaccessible jungle and have limited infrastructure. Majority of the guerrilla in MNLA are Chinese races, although there are some others races such as Malays, Indonesians and Indians among the members. The MNLA are organized into groups, although these do not have a fixed place, each containing all the forces operating in a particular area. The group has a political component, political commissar, secret service and instructors. In the camp, the soldiers took part in the seminar Marxism-Leninism, and making political communication, distributed to locals. The MNLA also provision that if their soldiers wanted for any romantic involvement with the local women, they has to ask for official permission to do it. In the early stage of the conflict, the guerrillas try to build a ‘liberated areas’ which have been driven by the government forces, with MNLA control is being established, but did not succeed at this