Successive UK governments have covered up the killings of 24 unarmed Malaysian rubber plantation workers by British troops in 1948, a lawyer representing relatives of the victims said yesterday.
The current government’s refusal last November to hold a formal investigation into the massacre will be challenged during a two-day judicial review hearing due to begin at the High Court today.
John Halford, one of the families’ UK-based lawyers, said: “What happened at Batang Kali was an extremely serious human rights abuse on any view at all.
“It was a massacre of 24 unarmed people who weren’t in any sense combatants, weren’t offering any kind of threat to the British troops who... read more