Malayan Peoples Anti-Japanese Army

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The Malayan Peoples Anti-Japanese Army was a communist-led guerrilla force in British Malaya that waged armed resistance against Japanese occupation during World War II.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf communist organization
guerrilla army
military unit
resistance movement
alliedWith Allied forces
surface form: Allied powers
alsoKnownAs MPAJA
areaOfOperations Federation of Malaya
surface form: Malaya

Southeast Asian rainforests
surface form: Malayan jungles
armedWingOf Malayan Communist Party
commemoratedIn Malaysian and Singaporean wartime histories
conflict Japanese occupation of Malaya
World War II
country British Malaya
dissolvedInto Malayan National Liberation Army
endTime 1945
ethnicComposition predominantly ethnic Chinese
formedBy Malayan Communist Party
goal resistance against Japanese occupation of Malaya
headquartersLocation jungle bases in Malaya
ideology Marxism–Leninism
communism
languageOfCommunication Chinese
English
Malay
leader Chin Peng
Lai Teck
legacy precursor to Malayan Emergency communist insurgency
notableMember Chin Peng
Lai Teck
notableOperation guerrilla attacks on Japanese military targets
sabotage of Japanese infrastructure in Malaya
operationalEnvironment tropical rainforest
opposedTo Japan
surface form: Empire of Japan

Imperial Japanese Army
partOf Malayan Communist Party
surface form: Malayan Communist movement
politicalAlignment pro-Soviet
postWarStatus disarmed under British supervision
primaryTarget Japanese military forces in Malaya
receivedSuppliesFrom British air drops
recognizedAs main anti-Japanese resistance force in Malaya
secondaryTarget Japanese collaborators in Malaya
size several thousand fighters
startTime 1942
statusDuringWar clandestine
supportedBy Special Operations Executive
surface form: British Special Operations Executive

British Malaya
surface form: British colonial authorities in Malaya
trainingBy British Force 136
typeOfWarfare guerrilla warfare

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Japanese occupation of Singapore resistanceMovement Malayan Peoples Anti-Japanese Army
Japanese occupation of Malaya participant Malayan Peoples Anti-Japanese Army
this entity surface form: Malayan People’s Anti-Japanese Army
Malayan National Liberation Army precededBy Malayan Peoples Anti-Japanese Army
this entity surface form: Malayan Peoples’ Anti-Japanese Army
Chin Peng ally Malayan Peoples Anti-Japanese Army
this entity surface form: Malayan Peoples’ Anti-Japanese Army
MNLA precededBy Malayan Peoples Anti-Japanese Army
subject surface form: Malayan National Liberation Army
this entity surface form: Malayan Peoples’ Anti-Japanese Army
Ong Boon Hua alliance Malayan Peoples Anti-Japanese Army
this entity surface form: Malayan Peoples’ Anti-Japanese Army