Samin Parlan remembers shootout with communists, suffered three gunshot wounds


PONTIAN: The scars from three gunshots on the body of L/Kpl (Rtd) Samin Parlan bear witness to the sacrifices and sufferings that he had endured battling communist insurgents in a shootout 46 years ago.

Samin, 82, was a member of Troop 5C of the Federal Reserve Unit (FRU) and was a 36-year-old constable when the shootout occurred.

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