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Rashid Maidin was born on 10 October, 1917 in Kampung Gunung Mesah, Gopeng, Perak, Federated Malay States, British Malaya, is a Rashid Maidin sometimes given as Rashid Mahideen. Discover Rashid Maidin's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 88 years old?
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Kampung Gunung Mesah, Gopeng, Perak, Federated Malay States, British Malaya |
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1 September, 2006 |
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Si Sakhon District, Narathiwat, Thailand |
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Rashid Maidin Net Worth
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Rashid Maidin (10 October 1917 – 1 September 2006), sometimes given as Rashid Mahideen, was a senior leader of the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM).
He was born in Kampung Gunung Mesah, Gopeng, Perak; coincidentally on the same month and year as the October Revolution in the Russian Empire.
He is the eldest brother of 7 brothers and 1 sister.
He received his early education at the Gunung Panjang Malay School and the Kampung Gunung Mesah Madrasah, which were both in Gopeng.
He graduated at standard 5 in a Malay school.
However, due to poverty Rashid dropped out of school in 1929.
After leaving school, Rashid travelled and sought employment, ending up in Cameron Highlands, Pahang.
While working odd jobs there, he befriended a Christian missionary who taught him to speak basic English.
He furthered his proficiency in the language via correspondence courses.
Later, Rashid returned to Gopeng and worked at a French-owned power station.
While employed at the power station, he studied basic electrics and eventually obtained a first-class electrical chargeman certificate.
He started a family with Hamidah binti Abdul Rashid, a village girl in 1938.
They have 4 children, 3 sons and a daughter.
he started to get involved in the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) and in 1941, he officially became a member of MCP.
He was the first Malay joining MCP.
In 1941, the Imperial Japanese Army invaded and occupied Malaya.
The MCP, of which Rashid by now was the party's top Malay leader, organised armed resistance via the Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA).
At the end of the Anti-Japanese war, he met Abdullah CD.
After the return of British rule, the CPM continued its armed insurrection, this time against the British colonial government, via its new militant wing, the Malayan National Libheration Army (MNLA).
In 1947, he was one of the representatives from CPM to attend a council communist party meeting in London.
This meeting was participated by communist parties in the colonial country to discuss about the strategy to fight against colonialism for the right of independence.
CPM's armed insurrection led the British to declare a state of emergency, which lasted between 1948 and 1960.
in July 1948, he was caught by the British in Sungai Manik, Perak.
He was put in jail for 3 and a half years.
In the early 1952, he managed to free himself.
After that in late 1952, Rashid met Abdullah CD in Pahang.
Then in 1953, together with 10th Regiment, he retreated to the borders of Malaysia-Thailand.
He was wounded on his leg during the battle against the British.
In 1955, the CPM attempted to negotiate peace with the colonial government.
Rashid was a member of the CPM delegation at the talks, which were held at the town of Baling, Kedah.
After the collapse of the Baling Talks, the CPM continued its insurrection.
The second marriage was in 1959, a comrade and a party cadet named Selamah binti Abdullah.
They were gifted another daughter.
Rashid was also active in the trade unions, which led him to join the CPM as the party's first Malay member.
In his memoir, Memoir Rashid Maidin: Daripada perjuangan bersenjata kepada perdamaian (The Memoirs of Rashid Maidin: From Armed Struggle to Peace), Rashid justified his decision to join the CPM due to the party's strong anti-imperialist stance.
CPM was among the first anti-colonial movements in Malaya.
Since young Rashid was inspired by the story of Maharajalela's war against the British in Perak.
In between 1961 and 1972, he was assigned to lead the Special Unit of National Libriation Army in the borders of Kedah-Thailand.
Rashid was entrusted by CPM leader Chin Peng to lead the MNLA's Malay-dominated 10th Regiment.