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The following are a list of massacres that have occurred in Malaysia and its predecessors:
Name
Date
Location
Deaths
Notes
Parit Sulong Massacre
January 23, 1942
Johor, Japanese-occupied Malaya
133
Killing of Allied prisoners of war by the Imperial Japanese military.
Sook Ching
February to March 1942
Japanese-occupied Malaya
70,000
Killing of ethnic Chinese populations in Malaya by the Imperial Japanese military, following similar actions in Singapore.
Jesselton Revolt
October 9, 1943
Jesselton, British Borneo
324
Batang Kali massacre
December 12, 1948
Batang Kali, Malaya
24
Killing of villagers (alleged to be communist sympathisers) by counter-guerrilla British Army troops.
Bukit Kepong incident
February 23, 1950
Bukit Kepong, Muar
25
Killing of police, women and children by Communist party of Malaya
Alor Akar School massacre
August 24, 1969
Alor Akar
3
A 23-year-old teacher at a vocational school in Alor Akar, Kuantan attacked several sleeping students in the school hostel. He killed three students and wounded two others, one of them critically, with a dagger. The teacher surrendered and was later arrested by police.[1][2]
Malaysian Airline System Flight 653 hijacking
December 4, 1977
Tanjung Kupang
100
Hijacking of a Malaysian plane, possibly by the Japanese Red Army.
1985 Lahad Datu ambush
September 23-24, 1985
Lahad Datu, Sabah
26 (including the perpetrators)
A group of Moro pirates raid the town and commit robberies and shootings.
Memali Incident
November 19, 1985
Kampung Memali, Baling, Malaysia
18
Killing of Islamists by the Royal Malaysia Police.
1986 Sabah riots
March 1986
Sabah
5
Seven plastic explosives were detonated in Kota Kinabalu. A bomb was also detonated in Tawau. At least five bombs exploded in Sandakan killing one newspaper vendor and injuring a senior Police Field Force officer. The riots resulted in the death of 5 people.
Shooting of Ong Teik Kwong
December 1, 2016
Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu Expressway, Penang
3
Datuk Ong, a 32 year old businessman, was driving his car to Penang with his bodyguard and a passenger. The bodyguard, Ja'afar Halid, pulled out his gun and shot Ong. Ja'afar Halid's subsequent shooting also accidentally hit seven people at the scene, resulting in two more deaths and four injured.
Darul Quran Ittifaqiyah madrasa fire
September 14, 2017
Kampung Datuk Keramat, Kuala Lumpur
23
Arson that was set by outsider drug addicts
2018 Malaysia methanol poisonings
September 2018
Malaysia
45
45 people have been reported died of methanol poisoning from drinking fake liquor. Around 30 people including three Indian nationals, believed to be responsible for the distribution of cheap counterfeit liquor to retailers around Selayang and Desa Jaya which led to the methanol poisoning incident have been arrested
^Amok teacher kills three in midnight hostel horror, The Straits Times (August 24, 1969) Archived July 26, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
^Teacher Runs Amok Kills 3 in Malaysia, Chicago Tribune (August 24, 1969) Archived November 7, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
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