He then returned to his home in Kampung Pari, Ipoh and spent the 1980s engaged in anti-CPM propaganda, urging his former comrades to surrender.
[1] In the struggle against the Japanese occupiers during the Second World War and later the British colonial powers, Musa was drawn to the Parti Kebangsaan Melayu Malaya.
[8] In subsequent years he gave a number of interviews to the media recounting his experiences and urging his former comrades to surrender and live in Malaysia.
[9] In 1981, Musa claimed that CPM women's leader Shamsiah Fakeh had committed infanticide during World War II by killing her child while in the jungle to avoid capture.
[10][11] Shamsiah subsequently denied the allegation in her memoirs and explained that she was convinced by fellow guerillas to give the child away to local villagers to be raised upon entering an unfamiliar district.