English: This Horror Must End was a news article published by the Daily Worker (later renamed Morning Star) exposing never before published photographs of British forces and their Iban headhunter allies engaging in atrocities during the Malayan Emergency (1948-1960). The collection of scalps and severed heads was a common practice performed by British troops and their allies during the war.
These photographs were published by British communist activists in the hopes that they would turn public opinion against the British occupation of Malaya.
This article is the third article published by the Daily Worker in 1952 which contained never before published images of headhunting by British forces in Malaya.
Date
Source
10 May 1952, Daily Worker (Morning Star), front page article
Author
Anonymous author and anonymous British soldier photographers
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Daily Worker article exposing headhunting photographs during the Malayan Emergency
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Malayan Emergency
Iban
headhunting
human head
hanged, drawn, quartered and decapitated
Morning Star
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10 May 1952
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