Friends and foes meet

09Sep09

Lee Kuan Yew at the Men in White book launch. Straits Times: IT WAS a historic moment with friends and foes gathered together under the same roof where they last met more than four decades ago – at the Old Parliament House. The occasion was the launch of a new book on the People’s Action […]

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New PAP book neglects founding members detained for 19 years

07Sep09

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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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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