Word: kuk
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...stepped out of the underbrush and flagged it. The engineer, braking his train to a stop, realized with horror that the "flag" waved at him to stop was a human head. As if introducing a guest at a cocktail party, one of the Chinese said calmly: "This is Shorty Kuk. We've come to surrender, and we brought his head along...
...Kuk, nicknamed "Shorty," was No. 2 man in the Communist terror forces in Malaya. Until rewards were abolished three months ago by the British, the price on Ah Kuk's head-$66,000-was second only to that offered for Party Secretary General Chin Peng ($83,000). The three Chinese, after turning in Ah Kuk's head, obligingly demonstrated how they had killed him. Surprising him had been simple, they explained. They were Shorty Kuk's personal bodyguards...