Ghee Hin Kongsi
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Hokkien people |
The Ghee Hin Kongsi (
Hongmen overseas network. The Ghee Hin often fought against the Hakka-dominated Hai San secret society
.
Ghee Hin was initially dominated by
ancestral tablets of important ex-members, before being donated to the Tan Tock Seng Hospital
when it was torn down in 1892, following the "Suppression of Secret Societies Ordinance".
The Ghee Hin were notorious for committing mass killings of such targets as the
Hakka ethnic group in 1850 (with approximately 500 casualties),[3] and post office workers in 1876, due to their opposition to a new, more expensive monopoly on postage and remittances. The colonial government began to move towards surveillance, control, and finally suppression of Ghee Hin from the 1890s onwards. The Teochew people who belonged to the Ghee Hin secret society were massacred by the hundreds, if not thousands.[4]
References
- ^ "Overseas Chinese in the British Empire - Chin Ah Yam". 5 August 2012.
- ^ "Notice of initiation ceremony of Ghee Hin Kongsi from William Stirling Collection". National Heritage Board. Retrieved 4 July 2022.
- ISBN 9780415263863.
- ISBN 978-0-19-580722-6.
- Lim, Irene. (1999) Secret societies in Singapore, National Heritage Board, Singapore History Museum, Singapore ISBN 981-3018-79-8
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