To: VOA
The had a closely contested election... the ethnic Chinese looked set to gain representation, which was too much for the Muslims to bear. In and around Kuala Lumpur (the capital), they formed organized Muslim groups that were armed with machetes (locals call them parangs) and proceeded to massacre non-Muslims, women, men, children, all hacked to death. the malysian government to this day censors all articles that relate to this incicent. Over the Straits of Malacca, in Indonesia, that practice has been continuing...
7 posted on
01/18/2004 5:16:11 PM PST by
USF
To: USF
Over the Straits of Malacca, in Indonesia, that practice has been continuing...
Thanks for the details.
To paraphrase Mark Twain's remark about the two slaves killed in the explosion of
a riverboat boiler:
"Nobody got hurt...just thousands of non-Muslims got hacked to death."
No wonder this historic and on-going persecution doesn't get much press here.
9 posted on
01/18/2004 5:33:31 PM PST by
VOA
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