MIN YUEN ORGANIZATION

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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 5, 2000
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• Publication Date: September 1, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. The Min Yuen, an abbreviation for Min Chung Yuen Thong,* is the nano used
to describe the Malayan Communist Party (au) organization of Federation
residents which performs auxiliary duties for such kCP organizations as
the Malayan Races Liberation Army (MRLA).
Theoretically, the Min Yuen is an overt organization which was designed to
replace the MCP-controlled Pan-Malayan Federation of Trade Unions (PMFTU) and
the New Democratic Youth League (NDYL) which were ottlawed at the start of
the Emergency in 1948.
3. Leadership of the Min Yuen was to have been composed of a nucleus of MCP
members occupying most of the executive positions. The MCP was to control
the organization through these individuals, with the actual work carried out
by civilian supporters recruited for this purpose.
4. 'hen the Emergency Regulations went into effect, it was impoadible for an
,CP organization to remain overt except in areas removed from Government
control. Organization of the Min Yuen at higher than district or area level
was virtually impossible, Various min Yuen activities were independently
conceived and were not coordinated.
A variety of names for local organizations resulted, including such names
as Area Committee, Peasants' Union, Liberation League, women's Union, and
Self-Protection Corps. The general function of these organizations was
similar, however, and included collection of funds, supplies, and intel-
ligence, propaganda activity, and providing a supply of recruits for the
14CP and the MR-A. All these functions have come to be known as in Yuen
activity.
6. As the Government campaign against the MCP developed, fewer areas were suf-
ficiently remote from the Security Forces to permit further Min Yuen organiza-
tion, Since certain auxiliary functions had to be undertaken to support the
MRLA, activities intended for Min Yuen organizations were performed by local
;,:CP branch and cell members who performed their duties for non-existent organiza-
tions called area committees or peasants' unions.
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7w It became apparent to the MCP that the auxiliary activity required more
military backing in order to induce local support and to prevent the exe
posure of MCP organizers-. Support for bandits in an area has varied accord-
ing to the amount of Security Forces activity in the area. MCP workers have
been exposed freouently when increased Security Forces activity destroyed the
local support organization protecting them.
8, Prior to the Emergency, district committees had their own armed units which
were known by various names, but which were actually killer scaled*. When
the Emergency was declared, the MCP decided to expand its military forces,
using these small armed units as a framework0 V. hen they were unified as the
MRLA, they were to be controlled by the state and regional committees,
9 This move left the district committees without armed units, and necessary
military support theoretically was to be supplied by a detachment from the
nearest MRLA formation, This arrangement was satisfactory until the MCP
Political Bureau decided to concentrate MRLA units as military support for
civil activities.
10. By June, 1949, the Central Committee decided that the civilian Mall organiza-
tion should be reorganized and put on a military bests, with district come
mitteee controlling their own armed units which sonid be used to support
thsir support activities. This Central Committee decielon was carried out in
the various states in line with local conditions, and the local armed units
formed as a result were given a vaeiety of names. In Negri Sembilan, for
exemple, they were called district units. Captured documents describe such
units as compoeed of all aCP and Min Yuen executives in an MCP district, from
the district committee level down,
11, These executives were organized and armed, and were given para-military train-
ins and divided into sections eith the district committees forming the district
(mit commands. These sections were assigned to Min Yuen or terrorist activity
in enpport of other sections engaged in Min Yuen activity,
12 "here enough executives were not available tc fora an armed unit, personnel
were detached from the nearest !ARIA formation and placed at the disposal of
a district committee. These detached individuals ceased to belong to the
MRLA and were used in armed units in supp,rt of local executives engaged in
Min Yuen activities, as in the case of the Armed hot* Force in Selangor. Some
of the personnel detached from MRLA formations were grouped under local execut-
ives in sections which carried out whatever amsignments were required, as was
the practice in Negri eemhilan,
el Titles used by these small armed units vary, as evidenced by such known names
as Armed aork Force, District Unit Armed Labor Corps, Special Work Force,
epeeial Mobile Corps,, and Self-Protection Corps, The composition As similar,
and sections each consist of ten men under a section commander and vice-com-
eaeder aections live separately in camps and are subject Lo area transfers,
They also may be organized as platoons under a district committee for a special
ettack that may be made with the MRLA,
'4 The Self-Protection Corps is the nearest approach to the original MCP concept
of a Min Yuen organization whose responsibility was to be confined to the area
in which its members lived,. Members of the Self-Protection Corps live at home
and engage in banditry only as required. Few of these units have retained
their purely local character, and the majority have degenerated into organiza-
tions similar to the other armed units described earlier.
The MCP intended that the MRLA should carry out attacks on Security Forces,
police stations, guarded estates, and major targets, while such organizations
as district units and armed work forces should be assigned to eliminating
raitors and engaging in sabotage Howeeer, there has been no arbitrary rule
and assignments have varied according to local conditions. Such local varia-
eioe Is typical of the MCP organlzation,All
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The Mm Min Yuen is sometimes knon as the Peoplegs
Moveent0 The name Min Chung Yuen Thongs which might be translated
as Peopleqs Grievance Organizations apparently was intended to suggest
a spontaneous popular movement and might also be rendered in English
rd An Organization for a Movement from Among the People.
There has long been considerable dispute and misunder-
standing regarding the nature and organization of the Min Yuen. The
chief reason for this ie that the Min Yuen began a gradual process of
change more than a year ago, and since then information from various
areas has conflicted because development has not been uniform through-
out the Federt.tion,,
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