a bag of tricks and evil political exploitations?
RIOTS IN SINGAPORE
11 dec, 1950 - Maria Hertogh riots. a tragedy that was exploited by politicians to create trouble. a tussle for a girl between her dutch mother and the malay mother who adopted her became a religious conflict with 18 deads.
15 feb 1851 - anti catholic riots. for 5 days, non christian chinese fr secret societies attacked chinese who had converted to become catholics.
5 may 1854 - hokkien-teochew riots. hokkiens and teochews disagreed over politics in china. their societies clashed for almost 2 weeks killing some 600.
21 oct, 1871 - hokkien teochew riots. a hokkien caught a teochew in the act of picking his pocket and this led to a clash between the 2 communities' gangs. for days, people fought openly o the streets.
sep to oct, 1956 - chinese middle school riots. thousands of chinese school students went on strike against the british autorities after their union was closed down. rioting spread: 13 died and 123 injured.
21 jul 1964 & sep 2 - racial riots. during a procession to celebrate prophet mohammed's birthday, fighting broke out between malays and chinese probably instigated by politicians (yes, again people who could be like chee soon juan) who wanted to make trouble for singapore.
june 1969 - on may 13, riots broke out between chinese and malays in malaysia after an election. b june, the riots spread to singapore: leaders of malaysian triad societies instigated groups here to attach one another.
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