Memali Incident
1985 siege of an Islamic sect by police in Baling, Kedah, Malaysia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Memali Incident (Malay: Peristiwa Memali) or code-named as Operasi Angkara ("Operation Cause") and Operasi Hapus ("Operation Destroy") was a major incident that occurred in the remote village of Kampung Memali, Baling in the Malaysian state of Kedah on 19 November 1985.
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Memali Siege | |||||||
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Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party | |||||||
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Mahathir Mohamad Musa Hitam Mohammed Hanif Omar | Ibrahim Mahmud † | ||||||
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200 policemen |
400 followers Unknown number of armed villagers[1] | ||||||
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4 killed[2] |
14 killed[2] 159 arrested[3] | ||||||
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A team of 200 policemen, under orders from the Deputy Prime Minister Musa Hitam, laid siege to kampung (village) houses in Memali, near Baling in Kedah. The houses were occupied by an Islamic sect of about 400 people led by Ibrahim Mahmud a.k.a. Ibrahim Libya. The siege resulted in the deaths of 14 villagers and 4 policemen.