1964 race riots in Singapore

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.

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Reflections:
The Prophet Muhammad Birthday Riots was happened at Padang, Singapore where about 25,000 Malays gathered there to celebrate the Muslim prophet Muhammad's Birthday on 21st July 1964. The Malays went on to Geylang after the speeches, eventually the group dispersed and there was a policeman whom asked the group that dispersed to rejoin the main crowd. Everything started because the policeman who was chinese asked the malays to rejoin their main. I think the riot was merely misunderstanding between the Chinese and Malays. Many people were sacrificed during the racial riots, lifes were lost innocently.
Lucky Singapore now is in the state of racial harmony. In order to prevent this riots between parties to occur, everyone must not be bias against anyone and also never criticise anyone.

~Qiuxuan


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