““In 1956, his government put forward a proposal to bar student groups from political activities. The reaction was swift: militant Chinese students seized control of six Chinese-medium schools and barricaded themselves inside. Lim retaliated by sending the police to clear the schools. The students took to the streets, and almost two weeks of rioting led to the death of fifteen people and the injury of hundreds of others. The streets of Singapore became battlefields between security forces and Chinese radicals.””
