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Is the Malaya Emergency a War?
The insurance thing is very often cited. I've seen it mentioned in nearly all the academic papers and museum texts about the Malayan emergency, but it remains under-evident. There were things that the British did that probably would have come under Geneva Convention scrutiny or conduct of one cell during wartime. We might also see it as the British government wanting to define these things as periods of civil unrest rather than as wars.