‘Hysterical, I tore my shirt and started screaming, ‘Let them go! Kill me!’. Fifty years on, I can still smell the blood.’
This is the story of an eyewitness to the riots of May 13, 1969. A first-year student at Universiti Malaya at the time, he was caught in Kampung Baru that one of the hotspots of the riot. He remained there until May 16.on condition of anonymity, and confessed to prolonged and ongoing trauma from what he experienced 50 years ago.
With tears in his eyes, he recalled an incident where a young Chinese family was set upon a Malay mob.
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