HIS courage, devotion to duty and passion for the country of his birth are a matter of public record. Tan Sri Yuen Yuet Leng, the irrepressible œpolicemans policeman, the poisonous thorn in the flesh of Malayas, and subsequently Malaysias, militant communists and the bane of their lives throughout his 34 years of exemplary police service and leadership, has died at the age of 88. He finally succumbed to a failing heart. This brave man on whose life several assassination attempts were made and frequently shot at on his innumerable jungle-bashing forays, carried not just the scars of war to the grave, but an enemy bullet lodged in his body that doctors considered too dangerous to remove. Yuen had, I am sure, the quiet satisfaction of denying his enemy the pleasure of adding his name to their list of œenemy killed. The countrys foremost counter-insurgency strategist had not quite finished with them yet.
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