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(1948) Batang Kali massacre: British soldiers admitted unlawful killings, court told
Source: The Guardian
Scots Guards soldiers admitted unlawfully shooting dead 24 Malaysian villagers then covering up the massacre, the high court has been told.
Calling for an official inquiry into the mass killing during anti-insurgency operations in 1948, lawyers for relatives of the victims disclosed for the first time the soldiers' accounts given during police interviews.
The statements were taken in 1970, when the then Labour government ordered an investigation into the deaths.
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/08/batang-kali-massacre-unlawful-killings