Tuesday, 13 May 1969 - When the race riots erupted in Kuala Lumpur, I was then staying in Ipoh when my family home was located. Can't recall what I was doing then; except that on the following Wednesday morning I remember getting ready to go to school when a Pejabat Penerangan van came to the neighbourhood to announce that there was a curfew.
Little is mentioned of this dark episode in our history text books.What happened on '513' had happened. It's a chapter of the Malaysian history. The events cannot be erased.
While in the past, there were limited sources of information about May 13, the arrival of blogsphere provided a welcome change. We don't have to depend on the mainstream media for news, which more often than not, are skewed to what the government wants the people to read. Now everyone can be a history writer in their own way.
Welcome to the world of blogging. Still, one has to exercise a bit of judgement to sift out the truth from the false. Enough said, here are some links to sites containing postings on May 13:
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