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Malaya 1942 There is no such thing as the 'good guy' or that good guys always wear black! Everybody does something not with the purest of thoughts but with the motive of ‘what's in for me?' lurking entrenched in his mind. This, the Asiatic peace loving natives, found out the hard way. About three-quarter of a century ago, Malayans were visited by their fellow Asiatics on bicycles. A group of Malayans were actually happy that their kind of people were coming to liberate them from the tyranny of the foreign oppressors. Little did they realise what waited for them - from the frying pan into the flaming hot fire! In 1945, when Sukarno declared independence and proclaimed Indonesia as a sovereign nation, the British, who gave an aura of being a just army, caring for humanity and liberty, came into Indonesia. The Malayans who once looked at their colonial masters as fair soon realised that they do not care about the people of the East. They were only interested in safe...