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The 1964 Race Riots and Racial Riots on 13 May 1969

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The 1964 Race Riots were a series of riots that took place in Singapore during two separate periods in July and September between Chinese and Malay groups. The first incident occurred on 21 July during a Malay procession that marked Muhammad's birthday. In total, the violence killed 36 people and injured another 556. About 3,000 people were arrested. The riots are also known as the Prophet Muhammad Birthday Riots, 1964 Racial Riots, and 1964 Sino-Malay Riots. At that time, Singapore was a state in the Federation of Malaysia.

On 21 July, 1964, about 25,000 Malays gathered at Padang, Singapore to celebrate the Prophet Muhammad's birthday. After the speeches, the procession went on to Geylang. Along the way, a group that was dispersed was asked to rejoin the procession by a policeman. Instead of obeying the orders, the group attacked the policeman. This incident led to a race riot after the group of Malays attacked Chinese passers-by and spectators. The riots were reported to have started at about 5:00 p.m. between Kallang and Geylang Serai. A curfew was declared at 9.30 p.m. to restore order, but in the first day of riot, four people were killed and 178 injured.[1]

After the curfew was lifted at 6 a.m. the next morning, the conflict grew even more tense, and another curfew was imposed - only lifted for short periods for people to buy food. The curfew was completely lifted on 2 August, 11 days after the start of the riots. After the riots, goodwill committees were set up made up of community leaders from the various racial groups. The main job of these leaders was to help restore peace and harmony between the Malays and the Chinese by addressing the concerns of the residents. About 23 people lost their lives and 450 people were injured during the July riots. There was significant damage to property and vehicles. About 3,000 people were arrested, including 600 secret society members and 256 people arrested for possession of dangerous weapons. The rest were arrested for violating the curfew.

Different kinds of reasons have been cited for causing the riots. Malaysia Deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak blamed Indonesian and Communist provocateurs.

On the other hand, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and several other foreign observers attributed the riots as the result of agitation by Syed Jaafar Albar and other elements of the ultra-nationalist faction in UMNO. According to the Australian Deputy High Commissioner, W.B. Pritchett:

"...there can be no doubt that UMNO was solely responsible for the riots. Its members ran the communal campaign or allowed it to happen."[2]

The riots occurred during the period when the PAP-UMNO relations were severely strained after the People's Action Party challenged the UMNO in the March 1964 Malaysia federal election with the campaign slogan of Malaysian Malaysia.

In addition, the involvement of Chinese secret societies in the riots also increased the level of violence.

One should differentiate between the Malaysia Racial Riots with that of Singapore, the Malaysia Racial Riots occurred on 13 May 1969.
 

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According to PAS is not because of Malay Muslim is Extreme Muslim but the English Speaking Malay Leader in UMNO continue bias on Chinese Speaking Chinese Malaysian.

Example of British Government:-

1) Call Chinese Speaking are link to China Communist
2) Help English Speaking and bias on Chinese Speaking Chinese Malaysian which is unfair.

Oleh : Muhammad Yusri Amin

Monday, 18 May 2009

KOTA BHARU, 18 Mei - Masihkah anda ingat peristiwa berdarah 13 Mei 1969. Rusuhan kaum yang mencatat sejarah hitam negara ekoran kegagalan kerajaan Perikatan (Barisan Nasional) menyusun masyarakat secara adil.

Berdasar kepada kajian, peristiwa berdarah itu berlaku kerana polisi kerajaan yang tidak seimbang antara kaum.

Naib Presiden PAS, Dato' Husam Musa berkata, pemimpin Umno yang mengetuai kerjaaan Perikatan gagal mengurus penyusunan masyarakat sehingga menyebabkan orang Melayu dan orang Cina bermusuhan.

"Dan berlakulah peristiwa 13 Mei di mana sesetengah ahli sejarah mendakwa ia berlaku kerana kegagalan pemimpin Umno melahirkan keseimbangan dalam kehidupan masyarakat terutamanya di bandar-bandar besar.

"Sedangkan peristiwa berdarah itu tidak berlaku di Kelantan. Ini kerana sebaik sahaja tercetus rusuhan di Kuala Lumpur, Dato' Asri Muda memanggil semua penghulu dan mengarahkan mereka menjaga keselamatan mukim masing-masing," katanya di sini.

Menurutnya penghulu diberi tanggungjawab oleh kerajaan PAS ketika itu bagi memastikan tidak berlaku peristiwa berdarah seperti di tempat lain pada 13 Mei.

Beliau juga berkata, pemimpin PAS di Kelantan sejak awal lagi mengutamakan keseimbangan antara kaum bagi mengelakkan ada kelompok masyarakat yang tersisih.

Oleh itu katanya usaha kerajaan PAS mengadakan Deklarasi Perpaduan Nasional dan Keamanan 13 Mei 2009 baru-baru ini bagi mencetus langkah proaktif ke hadapan dengan meneroka politik baru di Malaysia.

"Dan oleh kerana itu, saya fikir Mursiydul Am PAS, Tuan Guru Nik Aziz telah mengambil inisiatif untuk menggagaskan konsep perpaduan nasional sebagai premis politik yang baru di negara ini," katanya.
 
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