Peace Accord in Malaysia

Date: December 2, 1989 • Location: London, United Kingdom

The Malayan Communist Party and the Malaysian government signed a peace accord to end a 21-year communist insurgency.

The Malayan Communist Party (MCP), officially the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM), was a Marxist–Leninist and anti-imperialist communist party which was active in British Malaya and later, the modern states of Malaysia and Singapore from 1930 to 1989. It was responsible for the creation of both the Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army and the Malayan National Liberation Army.