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English: Commonwealth soldiers in a British military base pose with the severed head of an MNLA guerrilla killed during Malayan Emergency, 1951. This photograph was first published on the 28 April 1952 by the British communist newspaper the Daily Worker (Morning Star), causing a political scandal throughout the British government, exposing the widespread practice of Iban headhunters fighting for the British decapitating the corpses of anti-colonial guerrillas.
Date Created April 1951. First published 28 April 1952
Source Daily Worker (British newspaper) 28 April 1952, front page.
Author Anonymous photographer

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Commonwealth soldiers pose with decapited head in British base, 1952, Malayan Emergency

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