In April 1952 the "Daily Worker" published photographic evidence that the British government was hiring tribal headhunters from Borneo to decapitate pro-independence fighters in Malaya (now Malaysia) during the Malayan Emergency. The photographs depicted British soldiers and Iban headhunters posing with the decapitated heads of two alleged pro-independence fighters, along with eye-witness testimonies. This caused a minor scandal in which the British government denied the authenticity of the photographs, only to later admit that they were real but that the photographs depicted an isolated incident. In response to the claims that the decapitation photographs depicted isolated incidents, the "Daily Worker" published many more photographs, far more gruesome and graphic than those that were previously published.