What happened during the 1964 race riots in Singapore?
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. A curfew was declared restore order, some people were killed while alot were injured . The next day , the race riot started again , people were only allow to buy foods in a short period of time . In total , more than 30 people got killed and more than 500 people got injured . All Wikipedia content is licensed under the GNU Free Document License or the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA license or is otherwise used here in compliance with the Copyright ActELIS CHING (07)
posted by 3-10 Social Studies Work @ 9/09/2008 10:08:00 PM
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