Riot Recollections - Elevated view of the temporary Little India Bus Terminal

Collections
1613935
Title
Riot Recollections - Elevated view of the temporary Little India Bus Terminal
Year/Period
25 May 2014
Region
Singapore
Material
Dimension
Object size: 66.7 x 100.0 cm,
Object size: Refer to parts
Accession No.
2025-00480

This photograph depicts an elevated view of a new, purpose-built temporary bus terminal near Little India MRT station that serves as a pick-up point for private buses ferrying migrant workers back to their dormitories on the weekends and public holidays.It is part of "Riot Recollections" (2014), a series by documentary photographer Zakaria Zainal and writer Prabhu Silvam which consists of portraits of eye-witnesses accompanied by their accounts of the riot that struck Little India on 8 December 2013 — the worst outbreak of violence Singapore had experienced in four decades since the outbreak of communal riots in the 1960s. The incident, sparked by a fatal accident involving a migrant worker at the junction of Race Course Road and Hampshire Road, injured 54 officers and 8 civilians and damaged 30 vehicles.