SUNGAI Siput was well known for its extensive cultivation of rubber during the British colonial era in the 1930s.
But it was not its vast rubber estates that actually put the town in the limelight but the murder of three European plantation managers by communist guerillas in 1948 following which the Emergency was declared.
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