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The Ones That Didn’t Get Away. Episode No, 1. Operation Jelaku 3, Nonok (Now Asajaya) Sarawak.

Source: Facebook Hj Robert Rizal Abdullah 6 April 2021 BACKGROUND The year was 1973. The State was Sarawak. The situation in Sarawak was that it was still battling the Communist insurgency which had started in 1970, almost at the same time that Chin Peng had begun his second phase of…

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Commando 33

3RD BATTALION MALAYSIA RANGERS ITS GLORIOUS YEARS 1965 – 1989 Dubbed as “Commando 33” by members of the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM), 3rd Battalion, Malaysia Ranger was the top fighting echelon of the Malaysian Army in the 70s when the CPM launched its second phase of the insurgency and…

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16 officers and men were killed

Today on 18 December in 1989, 16 officers and men were killed when the Nuri Helicopter they were in crash-landed onto the river bank of Sungai Lundu, near Kg Kuala Bandang, Sarawak. Amongst the 16 killed were: 1. Mej Jen Dato’ Mustaffa bin Awang, (51; RAMD), GOC 1st Infantry Division,…

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Selagi hayat, selagi itulah berjuang

Sumber: Berita Harian LAUNGAN `Agi Idup Agi Ngelaban’ yang bermaksud ‘selagi hayat, selagi itulah berjuang’ yang menjadi pencetus pembentukannya 161 tahun dahulu terus menjadi pembakar semangat anggota Rejimen Renjer Diraja (RRD) untuk berjuang mempertahankan kedaulatan negara Malaysia yang dibina hasil gabungan tiga wilayah pada 1963. Agi Idup Agi Ngelaban’ asalnya…

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