Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar revived the spectre of the May 13 riots to rebuke a DAP leader’s call for a street protest over price hikes.

The Johor ruler also cited the Bersih rallies, which he described as riots.

“Have we not learned from the bloody street protests of the past? Have they forgotten the riots of 1969, also more recently, the Bersih riots? It never achieved anything, except chaos, destruction and a...