Racial conflict in Malaysia: against the official history
Racial conflict in Malaysia: against the official history
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马来西亚的种族冲突：违背官方历史
DOI：
10.1177/0306396807085900
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发表时间：
2008
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影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Kua Kia Soong
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作者：
Kua Kia Soong
根据官方历史，1969年5月至7月的“种族骚乱”是马来西亚最大的两个族裔群体——马来人和华人之间自发爆发的冲突，而暴力事件的起因是反对党拒绝维持现状。在这篇文章中，官方账户受到伦敦公共记录办公室最近解密的文件的质疑，这些文件表明骚乱代表了一场政变。 1969 年 5 月上台的派系凭借马来人占主导地位的意识形态，代表了当时新兴的马来国家资产阶级的利益。从那时起，该派系继续掌权，并经常援引种族冲突的幽灵来抵制非马来社区对公民权利的要求。
According to the official history, the `race riots' of May-July 1969 were a spontaneous outbreak of conflict between Malays and Chinese - Malaysia's two largest ethnic groups - and the violence was prompted, if anything, by opposition parties rejecting the status quo. In this article, the official account is challenged using recently declassified documents held at the Public Records Office, London, which suggest that the riots represented a coup d'etat. With its ideology of Malay dominance, the faction that came to power in May 1969 represented the interests of the then emergent Malay state-capitalist class. Since then, this faction has continued to hold power and has regularly invoked the spectre of racial conflict to counteract demands from non-Malay communities for civil rights.