Britain urged to probe colonial era killings

Survivors of a shooting of Malaysian villagers by British colonial troops in 1948 are renewing a campaign to pressure the British government to acknowledge the killings were unjustified.

Malaysian opposition politicians said today that the killing of 24 unarmed rubber tappers by Scots Guard soldiers in what was then British-ruled Malaya was comparable to the 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam, when American soldiers killed perhaps 500 civilians.