Editing Malayan Emergency (section)

====Concentration camps====
As part of the [[Briggs Plan]] devised by British General Sir [[Harold Rawdon Briggs|Harold Briggs]], one million civilians (roughly ten percent of Malaya's population) were forced from their homes by British forces. Tens of thousands of homes were destroyed, and many people were imprisoned in British concentration camps referred to with the euphemism "[[new village]]s". During the Malayan Emergency, 600 of these concentration camps were created.<ref name=Keo19/><ref name=Sa64/> The policy aimed to inflict [[collective punishment]] on villages where people were thought to support communism, and also to isolate civilians from guerrilla activity. Many of the forced evictions involved the destruction of existing settlements which went beyond the justification of [[military necessity]]. This practice is prohibited by Article 17 (1) of Additional [[Protocol II]] to the [[Geneva Conventions]], which forbid civilian internment unless rendered absolutely necessary by military operations.<ref name="Gifu">{{cite web|url=https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treaties/apii-1977/article-17|title=Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts (Protocol II), 8 June 1977.: Article 17 - Prohibition of forced movement of civilians|publisher=International Humanitarian Law Databases}}</ref><ref name="MAY"/><ref name="MAL">{{cite book |author=Fujio Hara |title=Malaysian Chinese & China: Conversion in Identity Consciousness, 1945–1957 |date=December 2002 |publisher=University of Hawaii Press |pages=61–65}}</ref><ref name="Pamela Sodhy 1991 284–290">{{cite book |title=The US-Malaysian Nexus: Themes in Superpower-Small State Relations |pages=284–290 |publisher=Institute of Strategic and International Studies, Malaysia |author=Pamela Sodhy |year=1991}}</ref>