Chin Peng dies in Bangkok at 90

(Bangkok Post) – Chin Peng, former secretary-general of the Malayan Communist Party (MCP), died at a hospital in Bangkok on Monday morning. He was 90 years old.

He died of old age and was pronounced dead at 6.20am, reports said.

His relatives will perform religious rites for him on Friday.

Chin Peng led the MCP’s guerrilla insurgency and fought against British and Commonwealth forces to establish an independent Communist state.

The communist insurgency failed and he lived in exile in Thailand and was not permitted to return in Malaysia.