Briggs Plan

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The Briggs Plan was a British counterinsurgency strategy implemented during the Malayan Emergency that aimed to defeat communist guerrillas by relocating rural populations into fortified "New Villages" and tightening security control.

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Briggs Plan canonical 3
Templer Plan 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf British military plan
counterinsurgency strategy
aimedAt winning hearts and minds of rural population
appliesToTerritory Malaya
author Harold Briggs
conflict Malayan Emergency
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
criticizedFor coercive resettlement policies
human rights concerns
followedBy Templer Plan
linked to: Briggs Plan
hasPart New Villages program
implementedBy British armed forces
British colonial authorities in Malaya
Malayan government
Malayan police
influenced later counterinsurgency strategies in other colonies
languageOfName English
legalBasis Emergency Regulations in Malaya
locationOfImplementation rural areas of Malaya
namedAfter Harold Briggs
numberOfNewVillagesCreated over 400
numberOfPeopleResettled over 400000
objective cut off food and intelligence to guerrillas
defeat communist guerrillas in Malaya
separate insurgents from rural population
opposedBy Malayan Communist Party
partOf British counterinsurgency doctrine
pointInTime early 1950s
positionHeldByAuthor Director of Operations in Malaya
result creation of New Villages
displacement of rural Chinese population
reduced support for Malayan Communist Party guerrillas
securityMeasure barbed wire perimeters around New Villages
controlled entry and exit
night-time curfews in New Villages
police posts in New Villages
startTime 1950
status historical
targeted Malayan Communist Party insurgents
rural Chinese squatters
timePeriod Cold War
usesTactic curfews
food denial operations
forced resettlement
identity card system
intelligence gathering
population control
security cordons
village fortification

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Harold Briggs notableWork Briggs Plan
Briggs Plan followedBy Templer Plan
linked to: Briggs Plan