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New Villages, also known as Chinese New Villages (Chinese: 华人新村), are settlements created during the waning days of British rule over Malaysia in the mid-1950s. The original purpose of the New Villages in Malaysia was to segregate the villagers from the early Malayan Races Liberation Army's insurgents during the Malayan Emergency. The settlements were very effective in accomplishing their stated goal, preventing insurgents from gaining popular support in a way that could have turned the tide against communist insurgents in Vietnam or China It is estimated that today, about 1.2 million people live in 452 New Villages throughout Peninsular Malaysia. About 85% of the population in New Villages are ethnically Chinese. The ethnic Malays take up about 10% and ethnic Indians roughly 5%. Today they are essentially slums, because of their outdated design.
List of New Villages in Malaysia
See also
References
- http://www.xiao-en.org/cultural/magazine.asp?cat=31&loc=zh-cn&id=301 (Chinese version)
- 50 Years of Chinese New Village in Malaysia (Chinese: 馬來西亞華人新村50年 作者：林廷輝、宋婉瑩) ISBN 983-9673-65-3
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