May 13 1969........

i always want to know what happend back into may13 1969 since i was a young kid, lately im very into the history again of May 13 1969 and what happend back then,i keep on googleing for the story about it....but any how i still think that many true story are untold.....i try to immagine what happend to those chinese back then....how terrible was the situation...?? what really happened in the May 13 incident in 1969? What happen to the victims? i suddenly recall back that few years back that i was attend my friend Hayashi's wedding in kepong that we have diiner in a old cinema that now become a restorent..some has told me that's this restorent was a cinema back in 60's and this a the place all the chinese got kill during the riots again chinese..its was really sad to hear that...for the past many years...i always hear hear my parents tell me about what happend back then and actually they are still very scare n worry someday it will happend agian...i was told that so many got kill and many are missing..as the history i found is that the record are only about 200 chinese got kill...but many say that was more then thousand actually...some story say that some of the chinese was on the way to KL and got kill in the half way.another story say that before may 13...there is a malay go to this parang maker and buy hundred of parang form the seller and when ask why buy so many parang ?? then the malay guys just say all the parang are going to use in the jungle for cutting three...
i wonder why this can be happend...im very sorry for those victim who got kill..

"On May 13, 1969, riots against the Chinese began in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was considered the worst racial riot in Malaysian history. Many Malaysian Chinese fled to Singapore for protection. We were told the rivers ran red in Malaysia with Chinese blood. One of my European friends married to a Chinese described how she and others hid in a hospital for protection and how the Malay Chinese were running everywhere from the hordes of attacking Malays. My husband ultimately moved to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in the mid-1970's and his secretary, of Chinese descent, described how she came home during the riots to find her husband's head in her refrigerator.
Some police figures are that 196 people died in the riot, many more were wounded--there were numerous cases of arson and approximately 6,000 Kuala Lumpur residents (of which 90% were Chinese) became homeless. Some have said the actual tragedy far exceeded the official figures.
It has been suggested--in fact this is the official position - that the riots resulted from the tallies of the 1969 elections in which the largely Chinese dominated Democratic Action Party and the Gerakan Party made significant gains in opposition to the Malay controlled United Malays National Organization (UMNO). Members of the winning party marched through Kuala Lumpur through some largely Malay areas. It is said the demonstrators carried brooms that symbolized "sweeping" the Malays out of Kuala Lumpur. The official policy was that the Malays resented all of this and the riots ensued--basically that the Chinese had themselves to blame. It is the classic "blaming the victim" explanation."