STORIES of police bravery in the line of duty abound, and the most memorable and stirring of them all must surely be that of the defence of the police station at Bukit Kepong, an isolated community in the Pagoh district of Johor. This is what Brian Stewart, formerly of the Malayan Civil Service and the author of Smashing Terrorism in the Malayan Emergency ” The Vital Contribution of the Police, has to say in his introduction to the chapter on the œGallant Last Stand at Bukit Kepong.
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