Malay demonstration highlights ethnic split

From: International Herald Tribune | Date: March 15, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

Thomas Fuller The New York Times Media Group
International Herald Tribune
03-15-2008
Malay demonstration highlights ethnic split
Byline: Thomas Fuller The New York Times Media Group
Edition: 3
Section: NEWS

PENANG, Malaysia --

Chanting "Long Live the Malays!" several hundred members of Malaysia's largest ethnic group gathered Friday on this largely Chinese island, defying a police ban on protests and raising communal tensions in the aftermath of sharp electoral losses by the country's governing party.

Rapid moves by newly elected state governments to abolish some of the long-held privileges of ...

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