Lau Yew (simplified Chinese:刘尧;traditional Chinese:劉堯;pinyin:Liú Yáo), born Liu Chang-biao (simplified Chinese:刘昌标;traditional Chinese:劉昌標; 1915–1948), was a prominent member of theMalayan Communist Party.[1][2]: 109 He was a member of theMalayan Peoples Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA)'s Central Military Committee duringWorld War II.[2]
Lau was born in Hainan in 1915 and joined theChinese Communist Party in 1931.[1][3] After escaping to Singapore from the Nationalist government police in 1936, he joined the Anti-Enemy Backing-Up Society a year later in July 1937.[3] Lau became a member of the Malayan Communist Party in February 1940 and received training at the101 Special Training School (STS 101) in December 1941.[3]
After the war, he held the offices of vice president, chairman, and president of the MPAJA Ex-Service Comrades Association until hisdeath in 1948.[3][4] Lau Yew is believed to have favoured a seizure of power from the British in 1945 before they had fully re-established themselves in Malaya, but was opposed in this by the MCP's leaderLai Teck. Lau was killed in an ambush in Kajang by theFerret Force teams on 16 July 1948.[4][5]
