A mixture of different

A mixture of different communities settled in various sections of Kuala Lumpur. The Chinese mainly settled around the commercial centre of Market Square, east of the Klang River, and towards Chinatown. The Malays, Indian Chettiars, and Indian Muslims resided along Java Street (now Jalan Tun Perak). The Padang, now known as Merdeka Square, was the center of the British administrative offices.[11]

During World War II, Kuala Lumpur was captured by the Japanese army on January 11, 1942. They occupied the city until August 15, 1945, when the commander in chief of the Japanese Seventh Area Army in Singapore and Malaya, Seishirō Itagaki, surrendered to the British administration following the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.[18] Kuala Lumpur grew through the war, the rubber and tin commodity crashes and the Malayan Emergency, during which Malaya was preoccupied with the communist insurgency.[16] In 1957, the Federation of Malaya gained its independence from British rule.[19] Kuala Lumpur remained the capital through the formation of Malaysia on September 16, 1963.

On May 13, 1969, one of the worst race riots in Malaysia took place in Kuala Lumpur.[20] The May 13 Incident was a riot between the Malays and the Chinese, with the former apparently dissatisfied with their socio-political situation at the time. The riot resulted in the deaths of 196 people,[20] and led to a major reform in the country's economic policy to favour the Malays.

Kuala Lumpur later achieved city status in 1972,[21] becoming the first settlement in Malaysia to be granted the status after independence. Later, on February 1, 1974, Kuala Lumpur became a Federal Territory.[22] Kuala Lumpur ceased to be the capital of Selangor in 1978 after the city of Shah Alam was declared as the new state capital.[23] On 14 May 1990, Kuala Lumpur celebrated 100 years of local authority. The new federal territory of Kuala Lumpur flag and anthem were introduced.

In 1998, another political movement known as Reformasi took place mainly in this city.[24] The movement was a result of the sacking of former Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim, and resulted in a chain of protests until 1999, where supporters of Anwar Ibrahim took to the streets to demand reforms in the government's administration, among others.[24]

A series of meetings between several Al-Qaeda operatives were conducted in January 2000 in Kuala Lumpur.[25][26] The rendezvous were photographed by Malaysian authorities at the request of the C.I.A. It is believed that both the USS Cole bombing and the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center were planned during these meetings. Among the participants were Khalid Almidhar and Nawaf Alhazmi, who were hijackers aboard American Flight 77, Ramzi bin al-Shibh (Mohammed Atta's roomate), and Tawfiq bin-Atash.[27] [28][29] The meetings are sometimes referred to as the Kuala Lumpur al-Qaeda Summit.

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