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The article presents a study which reexamines the demographic characteristics, symptomatology, diagnoses and the relationship of symptoms to riot experience of all patients who presented at the University of Malaya Medical Centre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The study utilizes patients who were admitted in the medical complex from May 13 to December 31 of 1969 and were interviewed if their illness might have been in any way related to the rioting. Results of the study indicate that riot patients exhibited symptoms of affective disorders, personality disorders, and behavioral disorders.