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Psychiatric Sequelae to a Civil Disturbance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Eng-Seong Tan  and
Ronald C. Simons
Eng-Seong Tan
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Ronald C. Simons
Affiliation:
Departments of Psychiatry and Anthropology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.A.; formerly Visiting Lecturer, Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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On 13 May 1969, intercommunal rioting broke out between the Malay and Chinese sections of the population of Kuala Lumpur and continued for a full week. Subsequently a state of emergency was proclaimed, parliamentary government was suspended and the country was placed under the rule of the National Operations Council (a council of top ministers, civil servants and the chiefs of the armed forces and police) which ruled by edict.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 122 , Issue 566 , January 1973 , pp. 57 - 63
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1973 

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