Monkey business we don’t need


IT was the height of the Communist insurgency and Confrontation, weeks before Sarawak’s Independence Day in 1963. And it was a dark evening when Sarawak Special Branch officer Assistant Commissioner Datuk Lawrence Lim arrived to visit an Iban longhouse.

Lim and his group of officers were met by a hairy man wearing black pants and a hat who helped carry their bags to the longhouse.

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