posted on Dec, 9 2013 @ 03:19 AM
Okay, Rare doesn't really touch it for this modern City-State/Nation. This is the most they've seen for rioting in over 40 years!
Police said they had arrested 27 suspects after the riot, which started after a private bus hit and killed a 33-year-old Indian national in the
Little India area.
The riot is likely to fuel concerns about discontent among low-paid foreign workers. Last year, Singapore saw its biggest outbreak of labour unrest in
years when around 170 bus drivers from mainland China went on strike illegally.
Singapore is the place where some forms of littering or graffiti can get someone a sentence of caning, which is being whacked (to the point of cutting
skin open in extreme cases) with a long stick in court assigned punishment. However they manage it, they do keep law in a very diverse place and in a
region of the world where that isn't necessarily common.
The riots came on the same day that Singapore's ruling political party adopted a new resolution, the first since 1988, about its social
The eight-point mission statement from the People's Action Party included a resolve to strengthen the Singaporean identity where people of different
races, religions and backgrounds "live harmoniously together, embrace one another as fellow citizens and work together for a better
It is a unique place, and I'm sorry to hear something like rioting has erupted there, of all places. I came across this though and the Unrest forum
wouldn't seem complete without coverage of it, given a 40+ year history since the last outbreak of it's kind. (1969, according to the article)
Interesting times we live in. Interesting and strange, indeed.