<P> Early travelers in Asia sometimes describe a kind of military amok, in which soldiers apparently facing inevitable defeat suddenly burst into a frenzy of violence which so startled their enemies that it either delivered victory or at least ensured what the soldier in that culture considered an honourable death . </P> <P> An example would be during the Battle of Bukit Chandu in Singapore during WWII when 41 outnumbered soldiers of the Malay Regiment, led by Adnan Saidi, charged and went all out against a 13 000 strong invading Japanese Army . They continued the fight armed with just knives and bayonets for three days before they were finally defeated . </P> <P> This form of amok appears to resemble the Germanic Berserker, the cafard or cathard (Polynesia), mal de pelea (Puerto Rico), iich'aa (Navaho), Laos, and Papua New Guinea . </P> <P> In contemporary Indonesia, the term amok (amuk) generally refers not to individual violence, but to frenzied violence by mobs . Indonesians now commonly use the term' gelap mata' (literally' darkened eyes') to refer to individual amok . Laurens van der Post experienced the phenomenon in the East Indies and wrote in 1955: </P>

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