'I gave them a second chance': Veteran recalls combating communists - Superintendant Paul Kiong Seri Pahlawan Gagah Perkasa

Paul Kiong

Malaysiakini :Paul Kiong spent more than a decade fighting communists in Perak during the Second Malayan Emergency from 1968 to 1989.

But now, the former Special Branch officer calls the 40 or so guerrillas he captured alive close friends. "Three weeks ago, I met up with an ex-CT (communist terrorist), husband and wife, in Puchong, and we had tea."I used to have tea with them every now and again, they are very close to me. "Why are they close to me? Did they fall in love with me? No. It is simply because I gave them a second chance, I didn't kill them," he said.

Kiong was speaking today at the Taman Tugu Human Library (TTHL) project, an event held on the first Sunday of each month at the Taman Tugu Nursery in Kuala Lumpur. The former guerrillas he met in Puchong, he said, are now successful farmers. "I am writing my memoir, but if there is any doubt or anything that I forget, I will contact all the ex-communists who were with me and those in Perak.

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