MAY 13: Declassified Documents on the Malaysian Riots of 1969
Author: Kua Kia Soong
Publisher: SUARAM, 2007

THE recent election results in Malaysia upset a 40-year apple cart. The ruling National Front (Barisan Nasional—BN) coalition lost its long-cherished two-thirds parliamentary majority as well as control of a further four states to add to Parti Islam-controlled Kelantan.

Somewhere the specter of May 13, 1969 hovered. At least that is w