This collection bundle has two books: MAY 13: Declassified Documents on the Malaysian Riots (Signed 50th Anniversary Edition) by Kua Kia Soong and Life After by Members of the May 13 Oral History Group.
MAY 13: Declassified Documents on the Malaysian Riots (Signed 50th Anniversary Edition)
This is the first credible account of the May 13, 1969 racial riots/pogrom in Malaysia using documents recently declassified at the Public Records Office, London after the lapse of the 30-year secrecy rule.
Since local sources remain classified or have been destroyed, these documents provide the only available confidential observations and memoranda by British and other foreign embassy operative. They include dispatches by correspondents which were not available to Malaysians at the time.
A social scientist, Kua Kia Soong provides a fresh political analysis of this “May 13 Incident”. In his view, the riots were by no means a spontaneous of violence between Malays and Chinese but rather an orchestrated coup d’etat by the ascendant state capitalist class against the Tunku-led aristocracy. He discusses the contradictions of the post-independence Alliance racial formula and traces the rise of the Malay state capitalist class in UMNO which has ruled Malaysia since 1969.
With this publication, the frequently raised “spectre of May 13” by the Barisan Nasional government to deter any challenge to the status quo has been forever put to rest and the political tsunami of 2008 is proof that Malaysians are finally free from the fear of fascism.
Life After: Oral Histories of the May 13 Incident by Members of the May 13 Oral History Group
'All these years, I have been waiting for people to tell our stories'
'Life After: Oral Histories of the May 13 Incident' collects the narratives of those who survived that unspeakable tragedy that cleaved the nation.
“As May 13, 1969 has lived on as one of Malaysia’s most iconic moments of political transition and change, it deserves to be told and retold through many lenses and by many interlocutors. How did those palpably touched by the ordeal, and lost friends, neighbours and family members survive the aftermath of the violence? As the narrators in this book recount these experiences, they weigh and judge the history of the nation, from below. This book thus makes for a powerful read, laying the groundwork for the possibility of public reconciliation and private closure of a painful national memory.”
Maznah Mohamad
National University of Singapore
“‘Never again!’ ‘It’s too painful!’ ‘They also hacked the woman to death and dumped her inside the house too!’ These are some of the heart-wrenching sentiments and blood-curdling narratives captivated in this book…a much-needed collection of first-hand memories of ordinary people who survived the unspeakable violence of Malaysia’s May 13 racial riots. A must-read, especially for students and scholars of identity politics and communal violence, and generally, for all who appreciate the value of oral history and memory studies.”
Sharifah Munirah Alatas
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
Members of the May 13 Oral History Group
Tham Seen Hau is a Kuala Lumpur-based video journalist. She is also a second-generation family member of five victims who died in the May 13 riots.
Usen Leong is currently a senior lecturer at the Drama and Visuals Department of New Era University College.
Tung Wan Qing is currently a media lecturer in a private college. She has just co-published with friends a book on media literacy in June 2022.
Por Heong Hong is a social scientist who studies politics of memory.
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