The PAP regime has always maintained that the firebrand UMNO leader Syed Jaafar Albar instigated the 1964 riots so that the federal government in Kuala Lumpur could declare a state of martial law that would allow it to move in and take over the administration of Singapore.
人民行動黨政府始終堅信，一九六四年新加坡種族暴動是由巫統激進派領袖賽加化阿巴一手挑起的，目的是故意在新加坡製造社會騷亂，以便吉隆坡的聯邦政府得以戒嚴之名接管新加坡。