Lau Yew () was a prominent member of the
Malayan Communist Party
The Malayan Communist Party (MCP), officially the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM), was a Marxist–Leninist and anti-imperialist communist party which was active in British Malaya and later, the modern states of Malaysia and Singapore from ...
. He was a high-ranking commander in its military arm during
World War II
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, the
Malayan Peoples Anti-Japanese Army
The Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA) was a communist guerrilla army that resisted the Japanese occupation of Malaya from 1941 to 1945. Composed mainly of ethnic Chinese guerrilla fighters, the MPAJA was the largest anti-Japanese re ...
.
After the war, he led the
Malayan Peoples Anti British Army until his
death
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in 1948. Lau Yew is believed to have favoured a seizure of power from the British in 1945 before they had fully re-established themselves in Malaya, but was opposed in this by the MCP's leader
Lai Teck
Lai Teck (real name Phạm Văn Đắc; 1901–1947) was a leader of the Communist Party of Malaya and Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army. A person of mixed Sino-Vietnamese descent, prior to his arrival in Malaya, Lai Teck was believed to ha ...
.
Lau Yew () was killed in an ambush in Kajang by the
Ferret Force teams on 16 July 1948.
Malaysian politicians
1948 deaths
Year of birth missing
Malaysian communists
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