‘Ayo Gorkhali!’: ‘The Gurkhas are upon you!’

'If a man says he is not afraid of dying, he is either lying or is a Gurkha'
With a battle cry, "Ayo Gorkhali" - meaning "the Gurkhas are here" - and the motto: "It's better to die than to be a coward," the kukri (a long-curved knife) wielding warriors earned a fearsome reputation. Legend has it that once a Gurkha draws the kukri, he must draw blood.
The Gurkhas fought the Communists relentlessly – in thick jungle, in rain, in heat, in hunger, in bushes, in swamps, by day and by night – for 12 years. The guerrillas were virtually wiped out from the Federation of Malaya.
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