> Malaysia wasn't hostile to an anti-colonial Singapore, as this sentence suggests. Not that Singapore in 1965 was necessarily anti-colonial. Malaysians had fou

> Malaysia wasn't hostile to an anti-colonial Singapore, as this sentence suggests. Not that Singapore in 1965 was necessarily anti-colonial. Malaysians had fought the British for independence and there was a cease fire by 1965. The British left Malaysia, but the new government was mostly still friendly with the Brits. 1963: The Brits left Malaya, Singapore, Sabah and Sarawak under the agreement that they would form Malaysia, which I believe, among other things, was that this merger would help with the fight against communism in the region. 1965: Misunderstandings between the local Singapore government and the federal Malaysian government resulted in Singapore leaving the Malaysian federation (or Malaysia kicking out Singapore, depending on which version of history you believe.) Hostilities between the governments definitely existed, though not to the degree of full on war. Cease-fire: I wasn't aware of armed violence during this time in the 'anti-colonisation' of Malaysia, apart from perhaps the MCP (Malaysian Communist Party) in Malaysia, and riots happening in Singapore.