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This in turn sparked off a brief wave of racial violence between Malays and Chinese, dramatizing the ethnic conflicts that would hamper the post-war quest for national independence.
To match their long-term stake in the country’s prosperity, the Chinese and Indians wanted political equality with the Malays.
Unlike the Portuguese, the Dutch decided to do business with the Malays of Johor, who controlled the southern half of the peninsula together with Singapore and the neighboring Riau islands.
Before disbanding — and stashing its weapons in the jungle — the army wrought revenge on Malays who had collaborated with the Japanese.
Nationalists in the new United Malays National Organization (UMNO) resented this “foreign” intrusion imposed by 19th-century economic development.