Victoria Institution (Malay: Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Victoria) is
a premier secondary school for boys (and girls for Form 6) and one of
the oldest schools in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The school is widely known
as V.I. and a student of Victoria Institution bears the name Victorian.
In the 1880s, Raffles Institution in Singapore flourished as an outstanding school. Some prominent community leaders, including the Kapitan Cina (Chinese Captain) of Kuala Lumpur, Yap Kwan Seng, Towkay Loke Yew, and Thamboosamy Pillay, saw the need for a good English school in Kuala Lumpur. With the support of the British Resident
of Selangor, the foundation stone of the Victoria Institution was laid
in 1893. The school opened in July 1894. The name of the school
commemorates the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria.
A very famous landmark in Kuala
Lumpur, V.I. a boys school was a Japanese base during the occupation of
Malaysia. Many British soldiers and locals were brutally tortured to
death in the basement and some of the older buildings on the campus. It
is said that not only are apparitions common in the day as well as the
night, there have been many cases of spirits possessing students. The
possessed boys would behave strangely, even violently, harming other
students and teachers only to snap out of it a few hours later and
remember nothing, even when they were forcibly restrained, their
bruises would disappear when they returned to normal.
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