MacDonald House bombing
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The MacDonald House bombing occurred on 10 March 1965, at the then Hongkong and Shanghai Bank building (now known as MacDonald House) along Orchard Road of Singapore. The time bomb was planted by a duo of Indonesian saboteurs, during the period of Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation (also known as Konfrontasi). The explosion killed two people and injured at least 33 others.[1]
With the start of the Konfrontasi in 1962, the Indonesian Government (led by Sukarno) openly opposed the formation of Malaysia. The Indonesian military, under orders from Sukarno, began to insert saboteurs into both Singapore and Malaysia with the intent of stirring up racial tensions while at the same time undertaking acts of sabotage to destroy vital installations, beginning on 24 September 1963. Later, these saboteurs resorted to exploding bombs indiscriminately to create public alarm and panic. The bombing of the MacDonald House was the 29th, and the most serious of the spat of bombings in Singapore, killing 2 bank employees; Mrs. Suzie Choo (aged 36), private secretary to the Bank Manager, and Miss Juliet Goh (aged 23), a filing clerk in the bank.[1]
Singapore's Special Branch officers and police managed to tracked down and apprehended the two Indonesian commandos, Harun Said and Osman Hj Mohd Ali, who were members of the Indonesian Marine Corps. Subsequently, they were tried and convicted in a Singapore court, both were executed by hanging on 17 October 1968.
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Notes
^ a b Jackie Sam, Philip Khoo, Cheong Yip Seng, Abul Fazil, Roderick Pestana and Gabriel Lee (11 March 1965). "Terror Bomb kills 2 Girls at Bank" (reprint). The Straits Times.
Bibliography
Brazil, David. Insider's Singapore. Singapore: Times Books International, 2001.
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