Briggs plan-director of operations general sir harold briggs developed an overall strategy known as the briggs plan. its central tenet was that the best way to defeat an insurgency such as the government was facing is to cut the insurgents off from their supporters amongst the population. the briggs plan was multi-faceted; however one aspect of it has become particularly well known: this was the forced relocation of some 500,000 rural malayans, including 400,000 chinese, into guarded camps called new villages. these villages were newly constructed in most cases, and were surrounded by barbed wire, police posts, and floodlit areas, the purpose of which was both to keep the inhabitants in and the guerrillas out.
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