Poet Wong Yoon Wah, who grew up during the Malayan Emergency, was not able to talk about his life story until recently.
NOTED poet and educator Wong Yoon Wah grew up in a barbed wire compound during the Malayan Emergency, suffering British guards who bayoneted his schoolbooks and communist guerillas who set fire to his classroom.
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