Archive for September 7th, 2009
Send in the clowns
07Sep09
Alex Au offers a biting critique of Men in White, the PAP and Lee Kuan Yew himself. Yawning Bread: What has been revealed is that Lee was convinced that the leftwing of the PAP had pro-communist sympathies, and that they could potentially carry the electorate. Lee didn’t feel he was strong enough to stop the […]
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Tags: lee kuan yew, men in white, operation coldstore, pap, rogue government
New PAP book neglects founding members detained for 19 years
More criticism of the version of history in Men in White. Political detainee Lim Hock Siew on 18.3.1972, via Singapore Rebel: I and hundreds of others were arbitrarily arrested on the 2nd of February, 1963. Many are still in prison. Ever since that day, we were, and are, unjustly and arbitrarily detained in prison without […]
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Tags: lee kuan yew, lim hock siew, operation coldstore