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Violence and the Dream People
The Orang Asli in the Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960
By John D. Leary
Violence and the Dream People is an account of a little-known struggle by the Malayan government and the communist guerrillas, during the 1948-1960 Malayan Emergency, to win the allegiance of the Orang Asli, the indigenous people of the peninsular Malaya.
