declaration of national emergency or Darurat by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong resulting in the suspension of the Parliament by the Malaysian government at the time. So is it a racial riot.....NO.... . The fight between chinese and malay did happen along with it Indians has suffered from it. 196 to 600 people were recorded to be death on this date. So was it a racial riot no because this riot happened not because of racial but it happened because the ruling party lost its Kuala Lumpur seat in the 1969 election. Dato' Harun Haji Idris (Menteri Besar of Selangor) is the one who started the riot and influenced his Malay followings that it is a threat to malay if a chinese won in the kl. It was for his personal gain and not bcs the malays position was threaten. He was the one whom asked the malays to assemble in certain areas and then the assembly turned violent which at the end gave birth to New Economy Policy (NEP) which was supposed to uplift the malays in terms of the economic level which was also targeted to be achieved within 20 years bit from that date it has been 49 years but has the economy of malays changed? Comment down below.

The first ever riot in Malaysia happened in 13 MAY 1969 which caused the nation to go under