I think that all art that somehow encourages breaking the silence should be appreciated.

I was moved to make this after reading a newspaper article about a book being released that connected the 5/13 racial riots to a conspiracy to overthrow the Prime Minister at the time. I don't put stock in any single cause for the incident, but the article also gave other previously published work on the subject, including a rarely-mentioned book of declassified documents from the period.

The old don't want to talk about it, politicians wave it around like a bogeyman, and the young only have a vague idea of what it is. A friend who is now living in Australia said it best: "Maybe a better day will come for self-examination and hopefully healing."

The flag that bleeds for its country.

As a neo-realist, Nietzsche would be perfect in this condition. "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger." I guess we all are stronger now knowing a racial standoff would mean IN\/4S10N - ONOZ OMG ONOZ.

To be honest, I would've been a patriot, given if the government wasn't such a douche at things. The election changes nothing, it only hardens the zeal to fight against the oppositions.

To Badawi in the office, I sing but one phrase in this song, "Sieg Heil to the president gasbag."

Funny how everyone was so certain there would be a repeat of this with the results of the last election. Though, perhaps a change from violent outrage to resentful teeth-gnashing is not a change at all.

The stupid part of me keeps saying that if all the wheat left the barn, all that's left would be chaff. "Hold the fort, you stupid loyalist, you."

Badawi's a nice soft-spoken guy. That's not what the leader of a country should be.

And then exactly 29 years later at the same date the same thing happened in my city.

The rational part in me says that it is a coincidence the irrational prt in me scream "conspiracy".

I looked it up a bit, and the circumstances also show some irony. 5/13 here was, to some, a response of local Chinese towards alienation at an economy controlled by and unfairly biased to Malays.

Most parts of me merely think that wherever people are unhappy and unable to do anything civil about it, there will be bloodshed.

Have you heard of the artist Yves Klein?

I bought the book with the declassified documents. But the bulk of the book contains foreign records of the massacre. The British and Australian governments were particularly concerned.