Batang Kali: Britain’s My Lai?
Christopher Hale reports on a long campaign to discover the truth about the killing of Malayan villagers by British troops in 1948.
For two days in May the restless spirits of 24 men shot dead by British soldiers in a Malayan village 64 years ago haunted Court Three of London’s Royal Courts of Justice.
The incident is often referred to as Britain’s My Lai – after the Vietnam War atrocity when ‘Charlie Company’, led by Lt. William Calley, murdered between 307 and 504 unarmed civilians on March 16th, 1968.
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