KL rejects return bid by Chin Peng<\/p>\n
MALAYSIA: Malaysia has rejected a request from an ageing former
\ncommunist guerrilla leader to be allowed to return home from
\nexile, Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said in
\nremarks published on Monday.<\/p>\n
Chin Peng, 79, the ex-secretary-general of the outlawed
\nCommunist Party of Malaya (CPM), wants to return for the
\nlaunching of his autobiography Alias Chin Peng: My Side of
\nHistory and to visit his parents' graves.<\/p>\n
But permission could not be granted because Chin Peng was
\nstill linked to a banned organization with a "history of
\nperpetrating terrorism in this country," Abdullah was quoted as
\nsaying by local media.<\/p>\n
Chin Peng, who won the Order of the British Empire (OBE) and
\ntwo medals for helping the British fight the Japanese in Malaya
\nduring World War II, later led the CPM in a guerrilla campaign
\nagainst the British colonial and Malay governments between 1948
\nand 1960.<\/p>\n
The government and the CPM eventually signed peace accords in
\nDecember 1989.<\/p>\n
"I was informed about his request from a third party,"
\nAbdullah said. "Chin Peng said that he wished to come back now. I
\nreplied that at the moment, the government's stand is not to
\nallow him to return."<\/p>\n
Chin Peng, born Ong Boon Hua in Sitiawan in Malaysia's
\nnorthern Perak state, now lives in exile in Thailand. -- AFP<\/p>",
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