Ex- Malayan Communist Chief Chin Peng Dies In Bangkok.

PETALING JAYA: Chin Peng, former secretary-general of the Malayan Communist Party (MCP), died at a hospital in Bangkok on Monday morning
. He was 90 years old, the Bangkok Post reported.
 He died of old age and was pronounced dead at 6.20am, reports said. His relatives will perform religious rites for him on Friday, the daily said.
 Chin Peng led the MCP's guerrilla insurgency and fought against British and Commonwealth forces to establish an independent Communist state.
 The insurgency officially ended on Dec 2, 1989 when the Malaysian government signed a peace treaty with MCP, less than a month after the Berlin Wall came down.
 He lived in exile in Thailand and was not permitted to return in Malaysia,