Monday, December 09, 2013

Singapore's Little India riot a shock but not a total surprise...

For the first time in nearly 50 years, a race riot broke out in central Singapore last night, bringing to light simmering discontent among the island nation’s migrant community.

An angry crowd of South Asians turned violent after a bus ran over and killed an Indian worker as he was crossing the road in Singapore’s Little India — a vibrant cultural district of shops and restaurants that serves as a hub for the hundreds of thousands of Indians working in Singapore — at about 9:30 in the evening.

Video from the incident shows men yelling in Tamil as they set upon the bus, even as the body remained pinned under the vehicle. One man smashed the front windscreen with a pole while another repeatedly struck it with a garbage can.

The cheering mob continued to grow, and hurled objects at the Singapore Civil Defence Force rescuers trying to reach the victim before turning on arriving police reinforcements. They overturned four police cars and set three patrol cars and an ambulance on fire, triggering several fiery explosions that reverberated through the city streets. Full story...

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