At this time Malaya, which included what is now Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore, had the largest Overseas Chinese population outside of China itself.

On November 13, 1910, Sun Yat-sen, along with several leading figures of the Tongmenghui, gathered at the Penang conference to draw up plans for a decisive battle.

[2] Huang Xing and nearly a hundred fellow revolutionaries forced their way into the residence of the Qing Viceroy of Guangdong and Guangxi provinces.

[2][4] The dead were mostly nationalistic, revolutionary youths with all kinds of social backgrounds – former students, teachers, journalists, and patriotic overseas Chinese.

[6] The bodies of the 72 insurgents were collected by Pan Dawei and buried in a mound in the eastern suburbs of Guangzhou.

[7] It was not until 1916 that it was decided to build a formal cemetery, namely Yellow Flower Mound Park [zh].