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Pusing Police Station, Fortified Against Attacks By The Communist Terrorists
The photograph shows the Pusing Police Post/Police Station heavily fortified with 50 gallon oil drums and coconut tree trunks.
Pusing had been infamous for bandits even before the war. During the Emergency, terrorist activities around Pusing earned the town high notoriety, the wrath of Gurney and the curses of Templer.
From November 1950, squatters around Pusing were relocated to ‘New Villages’. Nearly every morning for the first week, guerillas descended from Gunong Hijau to harass the villagers and lay ambush for the resettlement parties.
Pusing Town itself was fenced in with barbed wire with a police post (pictured) and a newly formed Home Guard.
To read more about The Briggs Plan / New Villages, click here.
To read more about General Sir Gerald Templer, click here.
To read more about The Home Guard, click here.
To read more about the book ‘Kinta Valley’, click here.