English: A photograph of British allied headhunters in a Royal Marine base posing with the severed head of a suspected pro-independence guerrilla, likely belonging to the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA). This image was first published on 30 April 1952 by the Daily Worker, a British communist newspaper which was later renamed the Morning Star. This image was published in response to British government and military claims that a previous decapitation photograph published by the Daily Worker on the 28 April 1952 was fake.
Date
First published 30 April 1952
Source
30 April 1952, Daily Worker (Morning Star), frontpage.
Author
Unknown authorUnknown author
Licensing
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse
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Photograph of British allied headhunters in a Royal Marine base posing with the decapitated head of a suspected pro-independence guerrilla