🇸🇬 We Built This City: Singapore’s Migrant Workers | 101 East

On the night of December 8, 2013, paramedics rushed to the scene of a fatal traffic accident in Singapore’s Little India neighbourhood, where tens of thousands of South Asian workers socialise on their day off. Little did anyone expect the situation to escalate into a bloody riot, Singapore’s first in more than 40 years. The accident had occurred after construction worker Sakthivel Kumaravelu, a 33-year-old labourer from India, was stopped from boarding a bus ferrying migrant workers back to their dormit