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Dec 3, 2023 · The Little India riot left 62 people injured and caused more than $530,000 in damage. Emergency vehicles, including police cars and ambulances, were flipped over and burned.
Dec 4, 2023 · Closing shop. A resident, who wanted to be known only as Mrs Peh, 74, said she saw rioters hurling items at police officers. These included tomatoes that they took from a nearby provision shop.
The 2013 Little India riot took place on 8 December 2013 after a fatal accident occurred at SST 21:23 at the junction of Race Course Road and Hampshire Road in Little India, Singapore, causing angry mobs of migrant labourers from South Asia to attack the bus involved and emergency vehicles that had by then arrived at the location.
A riot that lasted about two hours erupted in Little India on Sunday, 8 December 2013, following a fatal traffic accident that had occurred along Race Course Road. 1 Some 300 rioters took part in the unrest, which was the worst case of public violence in Singapore in over four decades. 2 About 240 officers from the Singapore Police Force (SPF ...
Dec 6, 2014 · To date, 22 of the 25 Indian nationals charged for their role in the riot have been dealt with, while another 57 men have been repatriated. Today, the authorities run Little India as a very...
Jun 30, 2017 · This dramatic ordeal, short-lived as it was, came to be known as the 2013 Little India riot. It was the first riot of such scale and seriousness in Singapore since the 1960s.
I discuss here the spatiality of migrant labor flows and control that underpin capitalist labor exploitation and led to the riot in Singapore, and conclude with a short reflection on the question of spatial justice in the Asian global city.
