KUALA LUMPUR: A British Court of Appeal dismissed an application by family members for a public inquiry on the killings of 24 unarmed civilians by British troops in Batang Kali, Selangor, in 1948.
A three-man bench headed by Lord Justice Maurice Kay also disagreed with counsels acting for the British government that the Malaysian government and the Sultan of Selangor were accountable for the deployment of the troops to Selangor.
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