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Anti - National Service Riots@Sunday, 26 June 2011,01:29 Anti-National Service Riots How did it start? The riots were started by the Chinese educated students when the government introduced national service in Singapore. National service ordinance requires all Singapore Males from age 18 to 20 to register for it , it is not very popular with the secondary students as most of them were 20 and above as their education had to be disrupted by the war . The students did not wanted to defend the British as they were biased against the British, only a very few students from the Chinese schools turned up. On the 13 of May 1954, more than one thousand students gathered in front of the government house to present the petition in a peaceful way, it then turned into a riot when the police were called in to stop it then the police and students fought. 26 people were injured and 48 students were arrested for the riot. This was partly because the British has been biased against the Chinese. They were treated unfairly in the educational and economic terms. In 1950, English schools took 79.8% of the budget, and Chinese schools took only 5.8%. There were 287 Chinese schools and 131 English schools and the Chinese was not allowed to go to universities in Singapore , had to go china for further education, until Nanyang university was set up. The Chinese were also given odd jobs. Who were involved? 1. Chinese Males age from 18 – 20 Impacts on people The Chinese then become more politically conscious and anti-government feelings started to breed the public . |