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May 6th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The Batang Kali massacre took place on December12, 1948, as British troops carried out a counter-insurgency operation against Chinese Malayan communists.
The shootings took place after a 16-man patrol group of Scots Guards surrounded a rubber estate at Sunga Rimoh by the Batang Kali river. The bodies of several unarmed villagers were reportedly mutilated and the village was burned to the ground.
An informal investigation of the incident, carried out in 1949, exonerated all the soldiers involved. But claims of a cover-up by families of the victims have ensured that the killings in the village of Batang Kali remain one of the most contentious in British colonial history.
The campaign for a thorough investigation into the incident will reach a climax in London this week when a court will finally rule on whether to open an official inquiry into the killings, The Observer said in a report.
The Observer has seen documents revealing that after the killings the British authorities hastily passed a regulation empowering troops in the country to use “lethal force” to prevent escape attempts.
According to papers recovered from previously secret Foreign Office archives at Hanslope Park, Buckinghamshire, Regulation 27A was unveiled on 20 January 1949 by Sir Alec Newboult, chief secretary of what was then Malaya, little more than a month after the massacre.
They show that Newboult’s command authorised “the use of lethal weapons” to “prevent the escape from arrest,” so long as a warning was issued first. It explains that the law is applicable to any “officer” belonging to the UK military serving in Malaya.
“In their own way, the British officials responsible for Regulation 27A were making legal history, but in the most insidious and immoral way imaginable. This law was carefully crafted to immunise those involved in the killings from the legal consequences of their actions. It was an attempt to use the statute book to excuse and legitimise an atrocity that could never withstand the scrutiny of a court”, said John Halford, of law firm Bindmans, which is representing families of the victims.
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