PEOPLE who were around during the pre-Merdeka era would remember Baling, Kedah, as the platform for the famous Baling Peace Talks between Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra and leader of the Communist Party of Malaya Chin Peng in 1955.
Universiti students in the 70s and early 80s will remember it as the place of student demonstrations to purportedly champion the rights of poor farmers in 1978.
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