Operation Ginger

Operation Ginger was a counter insurgency operation part of the Malayan Emergency, the objective was to disrupt the communist guerrilla supplies, and  search and also destory the guerilla base in Perak to make Perak much safer.

 Planning and Background 
In January 1958 the Malaysian police forces attacked the communist guerilla with food denial method, thus action making many guerilla lack of food and supplies causing many of them were dead or captured by the police-military combined forces.

After the communist guerilla suffered many defeated action, they must retreated to Perak and make their own headquarters at Perak, General Broke launched the operation who play crucial to end the insurgency. In early 1958 General Brooke launched an operation codenamed Operation Bintang around South Perak, the operation ended in 90% of communist forces on South Perak were eliminated meanwhile the other retreated to another places. 

The plan was: Police authorities directed the counterinsurgent operation and the military give the plan to the units in their area for attacked the communìst guerilla forces, and also the military element in operation was an infantry brigade of headquarter to which were attached as the begining of the operation with the support of British penetration troops.

 Operation 
The operation started in 1958, The Commonwealth powered with 4,200 brigade men and 1,800 Malaysian police attacked the Perak, and they attacked and also killed many guerilla soldiers. At least 222 men were killed.

During the operation the police-military combined forces faced the heavy problems such as slow progression, to ended the communist activities the combined forces carry out the heavy offensive through communist guerilla forces, the combined forces placed many blockades aroun places and attacked the communist position causing them split into small companies forces. 

In February 1959 Sui Mah the killer of Sir Henry Gurney was had been isolated from the rest guerilla forces and starved, and then he ordered to his force to search some food and after get the food his forces get captured by Malaysian police, and also Chan Hong and Choy Foong the best member of malayan guerilla get killed and also get eliminated.

 References 

Category:Insurgencies
Category:1950s conflicts
Category:History of Malaysia