A lot had been said about Chin Peng returning to Malaysia.
However, let’s consider this Bernama news article, shown below, about another leader of the Malayan Communist Party, which can be found on-line at
http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsindex.php?id=366092

October 21, 2008 00:11 AM

— BERNAMA

Can the government of the Federation of Malaysia explain & enlighten the people why was this woman, who obviously was a leader in the outlawed Malayan Communist Party, allowed to be returned to Malaysia after the signing of the peace agreement, when Chin Peng has not been allowed to do the same since then?

On 2nd June 2009 at 18:21.30, Loh said:
///To forgive Japan, but not Chin Peng is a grave injustice.///– Dr Chen
Japanese invaded Malaysia and committed a lot of atrocities. Apparently since TDM initiated the look east policies, the government, and particularly UMNO not only forgave Japanese, they love them. Chin Peng fought the Japanese during their occupation, and wanted to push out British colonist, for self rule in Malaysia. UMNO fought against Malayan Union and worked towards independence. The objective was the same, though through different approaches.

Yes, it was the Malayan People’s Anti Japanese Army which later became the guerilla army for the Communist Party of Malaya. However, CPM had made a major irreversible mistake by waging armed struggle against the British. Believe or not, prior to the beginning of the Emergency in 1948, CPM was not regarded hostile or outlawed by the British who regarded the MPAJA as a valuable ally in their resistance to the Japanese Occupation during World War 2. MPAJA was part of the British Force 136 resistance against the Japanese, and the CPM even took part in the WW2 victory celebrations in London, in 1946 if I’m not mistaken. If the hostilities of the Emergency had not happened, CPM could have been a legitimate party in Malaysian politics today. Note the example of a communist party existing in India today which even took part in its recent elections because the Indian communists did not wage armed struggle against the Indian government.

On 2nd June 2009 at 18:21.30, Loh said:
Tunku and David Marshall met with Chen Tian, representative of Chen Ping at Baling in 1955 for the only peace talk held between the communists and the elected representative of Malaya. Though there was no concrete peace agreement but Tunku was promised by the communists that they would cease armed hostilities when Tunku gained independence for Malaya. They must have kept the promise which made it possible for an end to the emergency rule in Malaya in 1960.

I don’t know which is the true version and which is the distorted version. What has been reported in the newspapers then and taught in the history books for decades is that the Tunku, with David Marshall, did meet Chin Peng at the Baling talks in 1955. During the talks, Chin Peng rejected Tunku’s condition that the CPM should surrender and eventually be disbanded, and Tunku rejected Chin Peng’s request that CPM be recognised as a legitimate political party should hostilities cease. In the end, each side went its own way after the talks ended.
When Malaya did achieve independence in 1957, gradually more CPM members became disillusioned with their armed struggle. After all, there’s no further reason to fight after Malaya had become independent. So, more surrendered and eventually hostilities from the CPM began to wind down to a lower magnitude that the Emergency was declared over in 1960.
But there were still the stubborn ones who still insist that the struggle must go on in the deeper jungles of Malaya and one of them was Chin Peng himself. This went on through the 1960s, 1970s & eventually ended in the late 1980s.

On 2nd June 2009 at 18:21.30, Loh said:
It might be recalled that Independent for Malaya was envisaged for 1958. It was brought forward a year earlier when the British had the assurance of non-hostility by the communists against independent Malaya. Had Chen Ping insisted that they wanted a role in the Independent Malaya for peace, the British would not have allowed Malaya independent in 1957, and the consequence could only be speculated. Thus, Chen Ping had indirectly help ensured that Malaya gained independence a year ahead of time. He had ceased hostility after Malaya’s independence.

As mentioned earlier, the 1955 Baling talks ended without either side agreeing on the terms for peace, and the Emergency which began in 1948 was declared over in 1960 although the CPM had not actually and totally surrendered, and instead, retreated deeper into the jungles to wage war at a smaller scale. The communist insurgency had only officially ended when CPM finally signed the peace agreement in 1989.
It can’t be denied that the Emergency may have forced the British to speed up its schedule in granting Malaya independence. After all, the sun was setting on what’s left of the British Empire after WW2. But it appears that the British also wanted to avoid the mistakes it made when it left Palestine and India from happening to Malaya.
Of course, we know that Zionist Jews displaced the majority of Palestinian Arabs and turned Palestine into Israel, the moment the British had hastily left that territory, creating over many decades of animosity which seems to have no end.
And we know that the British had somehow agreed to allow India to be partitioned to create a new nation called Pakistan which led to bloodshed between Hindus & Muslims, Indo-Pakistani wars & the still unsettled dispute over Kashmir.