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Digging up Malaysia’s Racial Past

Digging up Malaysia’s Racial Past

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Philip Bowring
May 16, 2007
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Thirty-eight years on, the traumatic ethnic riots of May 13, 1969 in Malaysia remain as much a subject of official censorship as the events of June 4, 1989 in China. Now a new book by a Malaysian Chinese academic is on the point of being officially banned for suggesting that May 13 was the occasion for what amounted to a coup against the independence le…

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