The most promising historical comparison is the British experience in Malaysia.
In Malaya, although the majority of the population came from the Chinese population of two million, there were about 1.5 million Malays and a significant small group that normally fits into a category of “other.”
It should be of no surprise that the Malayan Communist Party was mostly Chinese which grew immensely in numbers after the Chinese revolutionary victory in China in 1949. The key to victory in Malaysia was to separate the Chinese Communist from the neutral Chinese, the Malays and the “others.”
But that is another story.
By the way, the Malayan Chinese Communist were originally supported by the British to fight Japanese occupation. Why is that indigenous forces are always most active to fight an “occupation?”
It took two years of trial and error for the British to get it right in Malaysia. However, in 1950, a retired general was appointed as the High Commissioner’s Director of Operations. General Briggs set up civil/military councils in every state and district on which sat the local police, and the “British military,” under the chairmanship of a senior officer of the “Administration” authorities.
—from Military.com
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banned film “The Last Communist”
link: Chin Peng(陳平,陈平)
