List of massacres in Malaysia

The following are a list of massacres that have occurred in Malaysia and its predecessors:

Name	Date	Location	Deaths	Notes
Parit Sulong Massacre	January 23, 1942	Johor, Japanese-occupied Malaya	133	Killing of Allied prisoners of war by the Imperial Japanese military.
Sook Ching	February to March 1942	Japanese-occupied Malaya	70,000	Killing of ethnic Chinese populations in Malaya by the Imperial Japanese military, following similar actions in Singapore.
Jesselton Revolt	October 9, 1943	Jesselton, British Borneo	324
Batang Kali massacre	December 12, 1948	Batang Kali, Malaya	24	Killing of villagers (alleged to be communist sympathisers) by Scots Guards troops.
Bukit Kepong incident	February 23, 1950	Bukit Kepong, Muar	25	Killing of police, women and children by Communist party of Malaya
Alor Akar School massacre	August 24, 1969	Alor Akar	3	A 23-year-old teacher at a vocational school in Alor Akar, Kuantan attacked several sleeping students in the school hostel. He killed three students and wounded two others, one of them critically, with a dagger. The teacher surrendered and was later arrested by police.
Malaysian Airline System Flight 653 hijacking	December 4, 1977	Tanjung Kupang	100	Hijacking of a Malaysian plane, possibly by the Japanese Red Army.
1985 Lahad Datu ambush	September 23-24, 1985	Lahad Datu, Sabah	26 (including the perpetrators)	A group of Moro pirates raid the town and commit robberies and shootings.
Memali Incident	November 19, 1985	Kampung Memali, Baling, Malaysia	18	Killing of Islamists by the Royal Malaysia Police.
1986 Sabah riots	March 1986	Sabah	5	Seven plastic explosives were detonated in Kota Kinabalu. A bomb was also detonated in Tawau. At least five bombs exploded in Sandakan killing one newspaper vendor and injuring a senior Police Field Force officer. The riots resulted in the death of 5 people.
Shooting of Ong Teik Kwong	December 1, 2016	Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu Expressway, Penang	3	Datuk Ong, a 32 year old businessman, was driving his car to Penang with his bodyguard and a passenger. The bodyguard, Ja'afar Halid, pulled out his gun and shot Ong. Ja'afar Halid's subsequent shooting also accidentally hit seven people at the scene, resulting in two more deaths and four injured.
Darul Quran Ittifaqiyah madrasa fire	September 14, 2017	Kampung Datuk Keramat, Kuala Lumpur	23	Arson that was set by outsider drug addicts
2018 Malaysia methanol poisonings	September 2018	Malaysia	45	45 people have been reported died of methanol poisoning from drinking fake liquor. Around 30 people including three Indian nationals, believed to be responsible for the distribution of cheap counterfeit liquor to retailers around Selayang and Desa Jaya which led to the methanol poisoning incident have been arrested