tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-92728562024-03-14T19:23:05.256+08:00Singapore Rebel To build a democratic society based on justice and equality...MInghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00812324746322990767noreply@blogger.comBlogger325125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9272856.post-51865223492815571012015-08-25T23:41:00.000+08:002015-08-26T11:27:17.937+08:002011 - 2015 : A Chronology of Authoritarian Rule in Singapore<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Apr/May 2011 (General Elections):</b> A year before elections, PM Lee Hsien Loong announced a "24-hour cooling-off" before polling day, stating that no election campaigning and "advertising" will be allowed except for "news" from government licensed organizations and sanctioned political party broadcasts. <br />
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In its annual budget statement, the Government announces a $3.2 billion "Grow and Share" package in which most adult Singaporean will receive between $600 to $800 each in "cash incentives". <br />
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In its first major revision since 2001, the Government redraws electoral boundaries by dissolving constituencies and creating new wards. The Group Representative Constituency (GRC) of Aljunied loses nine parcels of land to neighbouring wards, prompting accusations of gerrymandering from the Workers' Party. <br />
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The Elections Department eases the ban on election videos and online campaigning, but requires that all activities to be held at the Speakers' Corner during the election period be sanctioned by the police. <br />
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State-owned broadcaster MediaCorp airs an unprecedented four-episode TV forum featuring both PAP and opposition politicians. A directive circulated to the invited parties states that the PAP be represented by two speakers and be allocated half the airtime, and that only eligible candidates can take part, thus ruling out Dr Chee Soon Juan, the bankrupted leader of the SDP. <br />
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The Government announces elections 18 days prior to polling day, and campaigning period are again restricted to 9 days. Despite elections deposits being raised from $13,500 to $16,000, opposition parties field candidates in 82 out of 87 seats, making it the highest proportion of contested seats since independence. <br />
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Early attempts by the PAP to question the personal agendas of some opposition candidates, including one allegedly gay member of the SDP, are eventually sidelined by more pressing economic issues such as rising costs of living. Nightly rallies by the opposition attract tens of thousands of spectators, with the Workers' Party filling out sports stadiums. Traditional news reporting is challenged by a surge of dissenting views on social media platforms such as Facebook, as news websites The Online Citizen and Temasek Review also report record hits. <br />
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Three days before polling, PM Lee Hsien Loong issues an apology to the electorate, pledging to correct the shortcomings of unpopular policies. The hustings is also notable for the absence of defamation suits. <br />
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The PAP eventually wins 60.1% of the votes by securing 81 out 87 seats, and lost the five-member Aljunied Group Representation Constituency (GRC) to the Workers' Party, which secures six seats in Parliament, the best opposition parliamentary result since independence. <br />
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<b>May 2011 : </b>A week after elections, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong announce their retirement from the cabinet. In a brief joint statement, the two former prime ministers note that "the time has come for a younger generation to carry Singapore forward in a more difficult and complex situation." <br />
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<b>May 2011 :</b> Authorities arrest a 24-year-old man after he allegedly posted on an internet forum that a fighter jet had crashed, resulting in many casualties. In a statement, the police say that he is being investigated under Section 45 of the Telecommunications Act, which states that any person who is found guilty of transmitting a false or fabricated message is liable to be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 3 years, or a fine, or with both. <br />
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<b>May 2011 :</b> British author Alan Shadrake begins his prison term after he lost an appeal against a six-week jail sentence, the highest ever imposed for contempt of court. His inability to pay a $20,000 fine results in an additional two-week imprisonment, taking his term to eight weeks in total. "I feel that Singapore has shamed itself again by jailing me," says Shadrake in a newswire report. <br />
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<b>June 2011 :</b> 'Mass Effect', a Microsoft video game which contains a scene showing a human woman and an alien woman kissing each other, is banned by the Media Development Authority. The Straits Times reports that Singapore is the only country to have banned the game. <br />
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<b>July 2011 :</b> The organiser of a picnic in Speakers' Corner to display solidarity with anti-government demonstrations in Malaysia is called up by the police, who say they take a "serious view of foreigners who import their domestic political conflicts into Singapore, and of foreigners who use Singapore as a stage for such political agitation". The Straits Times reports that about 120 people, clad in yellow, had sat on the grass in small groups for two hours or so. <br />
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<b>July 2011 :</b> US lawyer Gopalan Nair receives a life-time ban from practising law in Singapore after the Court of Three Judges rule in favour of an application by the Law Society that Nair had scandalised the courts. Nair responds on his blog from the US that the ban is an "honour" and he's "none the worse for it".<br />
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<b>Sept 2011 : </b>Within 24 hours following an announcement by Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak to abolish his country's Internal Security Act, the Ministry of Home Affairs issued a press release to defend the use of the ISA in Singapore, stating that it "continues to be relevant and crucial as a measure of last resort for the preservation" of national security. In response, opposition groups and bloggers called on the government to abolish the Act, including an unprecedented letter signed by 16 former ISA detainees alleging the use of torture to extract confessions. The Ministry rejects the calls, and avoids addressing the issue of ill-treatment.<br />
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<b>Sept 2011 :</b> In a separate statement following Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Raza's announcement that his country's press laws would be relaxed, the Singapore Government says that the Newspaper and Printing Presses Act is still valid, as it ensures that the media play "a responsible role and that publishers are accountable for the content they print." <br />
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<b>Oct 2011 :</b> In an address to Parliament, Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean says that the ISA is still relevant and that the Government has used it on "good faith" and as a "last resort." Teo says replacing the Act with an anti-terror law would be inadequate, as it is the Government, and not the judiciary, who will be responsible for decisions affecting national security. Teo also reveals that in the decade of the 1970s, the Government had arrested over 800 people under the ISA, of whom 235 were issued with Orders of Detention.<br />
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<b>Oct 2011 :</b> Police commence investigation against the Singapore Democratic Party after it organised a public forum featuring former ISA detainees Francis Seow and Tang Fong Har speaking via teleconference from overseas. In response to media queries, the police say that the forum organisers had arranged for "a fugitive from justice" and "a foreign national" to participate in a discussion on domestic politics.<br />
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<b>Oct 2011 : </b>Another political forum is under investigation by the police, who allege that the talk could have violated the Public Order Act by featuring two foreign speakers. Singaporeans For Democracy says that its member Martyn See had spent 90 minutes in the police station fielding questions on whether the talk was a public or private event. The two foreigners who spoke were elected opposition Members of Parliament of Malaysia and Cambodia.<br />
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<b>Oct 2011 :</b> Police say they had released on bail a man linked to political website Temasek Review for an alleged violation of the Parliamentary Elections Act. Dr Joseph Ong Chor Teck was arrested in September after Temasek Review's facebook page had allegedly carried an exit poll during the General Elections in May. If convicted, he can be fined up to $1,500 or jailed for a term not exceeding 12 months, or both.<br />
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<b>Dec 2011 :</b> An application by political association Singaporeans For Democracy to conduct a "Singaporeans United Against Racism" rally in Speakers' Corner is rejected by the police, who say that "issues of race and religion are sensitive and may cause friction across different racial and religious groups."<br />
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<b>Jan 2011 :</b> In response to an annual report by Human Rights Watch criticising the government's record on civil rights and freedom of expression, a statement from the Ministry of Law retorts that the report had made "false allegations", and adds that elections in Singapore "are free and fair" and the "Constitution guarantees the freedom of speech and freedom of peaceful assembly."<br />
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<b>Feb 2012 :</b> In the country's first industrial action in over 30 years, online news portal TOC reported that about 200 foreign workers had gone on strike at a public housing construction site over unpaid wages, prompting intervention by police and officers from the Ministry of Manpower. In the Straits Times report on the next day, the daily opted to use the term "protest" in place of "strike", and says that the wage dispute has been resolved. No arrests are reported.<br />
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<b>Feb 2012 :</b> In a first legal action undetaken by a politician against online media contributors, Law and Foreign Minister K. Shanmugam issues a lawyer's letter to blogger Alex Au, asking him to remove from his website an allegedly defamatory comment that referred to "widely-known rumours" about the Minister's private life. In his post, Au had criticised the mainstream media's treatment of opposition MP Yaw Shin Leong and his alleged extramarital affair. Au proceeds to remove the comment, saying that he took the Minister's word on the matter.<br />
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<b>Feb 2012 :</b> Days after political website Temasek Review Emeritus (TRE) revealed Mr Richard Wan as of one of its editors, lawyers acting for PM Lee Hsien Loong issues him a five-page letter, demanding that the website remove an opinion piece that contained comments which had alleged "nepotistic motives" in the appointment of Lee's wife as head of sovereign wealth fund Temasek Holdings. After retracting the article, Wan publishes an apology on the website, and urges TRE readers to refrain from making similar comments. <br />
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<b>Feb 2012 :</b> In quick succession, lawyers acting for Mr Lee Hsien Yang, the younger brother of the Prime Minister and head of Singapore's Civil Aviation Authority, issues a letter to Richard Wan, demanding that TRE removes and apologises for a comment posted by a reader which were allegedly defamatory. Despite an initial retort by TRE that apologising for every defamatory comment from readers would make it difficult to run the website, Wan relents and publishes an apology.<br />
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<b>Mar 2012 :</b> After a day-long trial, an unemployed man is fined a total of $8,500 after he was found guilty of posting two documents on the internet which the judge ruled to contain incitement to violence. In the first conviction of it kind, 36-year-old Gary Yue Mun Yew is fined $6,000 for posting a link to a video clip depicting an assassination with a comment that a live version of it should be re-enacted "on our own grand-stand during our national's parade!!!!!". A further $2,500 fine is imposed for posting on his own Facebook page a doctored Pulitzer prize winning photograph.<br />
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<b>Apr 2012 :</b> Police denies an application by a migrant workers rights group HOME for a permit to march on Labour Day. Organisers said the "walk" had been planned for migrant workers and locals to walk together with t-shirts bearing the words "Walk with workers: Upholding the dignity of labour".<br />
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<b>Apr 2012 :</b> Acclaimed British film Shame is banned after its director Steve McQueen refused to comply with the censors' demand to trim a group sex scene. In a statement, a government spokesperson says that "we are of the view that the prolonged and explicit threesome sex sequence has exceeded our classification guidelines."<br />
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<b>Apr 2012 :</b> Dr Chee Soon Juan's application to travel to Norway to speak at the Oslo Freedom Forum is rejected by the government's bankruptcy office, who rules that Chee has made no contribution to libel damages awarded to Lee Kuan Yew and Goh Chok Tong. Chee says the government has rejected over 30 travel applications he has made in the past. In a letter of appeal, the New York-based Human Rights Foundation says that the "Singaporean government's major convictions of Dr. Chee violate international law, and enforcing a travel ban on him further enforces this violation." <br />
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<b>May 2012 : </b>Robert Amsterdam, a Canadian human rights lawyer representing the Singapore Democratic Party and its leader Dr Chee Soon Juan, is denied entry to Singapore, thereby infringing his client's right of access to his lawyer. No reason is given for the refusal of his entry. <br />
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<b>June 2012 :</b> Members of Singaporeans For Democracy (SFD) approve a motion to dissolve the organization as a society registered with Registrar of Society. SFD’s membership chose to dissolve the society to draw attention to "the constraint of irrelevant laws" that hindered its work as a political advocacy group in Singapore. The group had faced two police investigations during its existence.<br />
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<b>July 2012 :</b> Students at the new Yale-NUS school won't be allowed to organize political protests on campus, says Pericles Lewis, the college's new president. The venture has come under sharp criticism from Yale professors and rights advocates who say the Connecticut-based school's mission as a haven for free thought and expression is incompatible with Singapore's tightly controlled political system.<br />
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<b>July 2012 :</b> The Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) denies any link between the politically charged academic publications of NUS Law Faculty’s Associate Professor Tey Tsun Hang and the prosecution against him for corruption for allegedly sleeping with law student Darinne Ko in return for improving her grades. Prof Tey has published articles and a book containing sharp critiques of the Singapore legal system.<br />
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<b>Aug 2012 : </b>A Law Society of Singapore (LSS) representative shows up uninvited to interject a court hearing human rights lawyer Mr Ravi is acting in, with a medical letter from the lawyer’s doctors stating that he is unfit to practise law. Mr Ravi had already voluntarily and through his own volition submitted himself for examination.<br />
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<b>Sept 2012 :</b> Blogger Alex Au notes in a blogpost that in a letter to a group of former detainees, Catholic Archbishop Nicholas Chia had backed a call to abolish the Internal Security Act (ISA), but following a lunch meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean, Chia retracted the letter. "The very fact that powerful forces would want these goings-on to be kept from the public eye is itself suspicious,” Au says.<br />
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<b>Oct 2012 :</b> In a statement, Ministry of Home Affairs said Abd Rahim bin Abdul Rahman and Husaini bin Ismail had been issued orders of detention under the ISA in March and June this year for involvement in terrorism-related activities. MHA added that restriction orders against 17 JI members were allowed to lapse between March 2012 and September 2012 for being cooperative and responsive to rehabilitation efforts.<br />
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<b>Nov 2012 :</b> Father James Minchin, author of "No Man is an Island: A Study of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew", arrives from Australia around midnight between November 7 and 8 and is told he has been barred from entering Singapore. A statement from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) says Minchin “has interfered in Singapore’s domestic politics” and that he had spoken at a political forum last year “where he alleged that the rule of law was bypassed and corrupted in Singapore, and questioned the independence and integrity of the judiciary”. The statement also mentioned the video produced by SDP, calling it a “political interview.”<br />
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<b>Nov 2012 :</b> PRC bus drivers stage the city-state's first industrial strike in 26 years to demand better pay and conditions. The two-day work stoppage results in the deportation of 29 drivers and a six-week jail term for one driver. The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development urges the release of the jailed and remanded drivers, saying that "the swift and harsh actions overlook the bases of their complaints about wage discrepancies and poor housing."<br />
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<b>Dec 2012 :</b> 81-year-old Australian human rights activist, Dr. Brian Senewiratne, accuses Singapore authorities of holding him in a cell without food, drink and toilet facilities for nearly five hours before deporting him. Senewiratne had been scheduled to speak about the plight of Sri Lankan refugees who flee from their homeland in flimsy boats only to wash up in Australia and Malaysia, where they are branded as illegal immigrants.<br />
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<b>Jan 2013 : </b>The Government bans Stoma, a play by theatre company Agni Koothu, citing that it contains "sexually explicit, blasphemous and offensive references and language which would be denigrating to the Catholic and the wider Christian community."<br />
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<b>Jan 2013 :</b> Blogger Alex Au is served a letter demanding he take down a blog post titled, “PAP mis-AIMed, faces blowback," about a computer systems deal involving the PAP. In the letter, Au’s post was said to contain “very serious suggestions of criminal breach of trust.” <br />
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<b>Feb 2013 :</b> Lynn Lee, a freelance film-maker, spends close to eight hours at the Singapore police headquarters in connection with her video interviews with two ex-SMRT bus drivers from China. Lee has her mobile phone and laptop searched during her interview, after having her phone, laptop and iMac seized from her home. Lee is asked more than 150 questions, many of which have nothing to do with the drivers' allegations of police abuse.<br />
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<b>Mar 2013 :</b> Nanyang Technological University denies tenure for a second time to Cherian George, an outspoken journalism professor known for his critical political commentary, prompting some scholars and students to accuse the school of curtailing academic freedom. Mr. George had his first tenure application rejected in 2009.<br />
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<b>Mar 2013 :</b> Cartoonist Leslie Chew is arrested for alleged sedition over a satirical comic strip on his Facebook page that appears to accuse the government of racism. The cartoon criticized the government’s treatment of the city-state’s ethnic Malay Muslim minority.<br />
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<b>Apr 2013 :</b> Justice Quentin Loh dismisses a gay couple's challenge to Section 377A. Justice Loh says that the question of whether the law should be removed or kept should be decided by Parliament, not the courts, noting that it is an issue of morality and societal values.<br />
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<b>Apr 2013 :</b> Six Malaysians are under investigation after initiating a campaign urging fellow Malaysians to return home to vote in the 13th general election. The group had walked about quietly along pavements, carrying posters and placards without disturbing the public order. They were requested to go to a police station as they did not have a permit.<br />
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<b>Apr 2013 :</b> The Council for Private Education (CPE), a statutory board, threatens Han Hui Hui, a 21-year-old student, with a defamation suit for publishing allegedly defamatory emails. Han’s emails alleged that private schools in the country provided their students with answers to standardized tests.<br />
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<b>May 2013 :</b> Singapore falls 14 places to a record 149th position in terms of press freedom, according to an annual report by non-governmental organisation Reporters Without Borders (RWB). On the list, Singapore is wedged in between Russia and Iraq, with Myanmar just two places behind.<br />
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<b>May 2013 :</b> Singapore activists and bloggers call on the government to withdraw a new MDA licensing scheme to regulate major online news sites. Under such a licence, the sites will have to put up a performance bond of S$50,000 and comply within 24 hours with any order by the media watchdog to take down objectionable content.<br />
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<b>May 2013 :</b> 21 Malaysians are arrested for their involvement in the flash mob protest at the Merlion against the outcome of Malaysia's general election. The police action followed earlier warnings that such gatherings are illegal.<br />
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<b>May 2013 :</b> In its annual report, Amnesty International criticises Singapore for its continued tight control on the media and the "widespread" political repression faced by dissidents and opposition activists.<br />
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<b>Jun 2013 :</b> Filmmaker Lynn Lee is issued a stern warning over online videos in which two Chinese bus drivers accused police in the city-state of assaulting them. "Ms Lee's conduct amounted to contempt of court by creating a real risk of prejudice to the criminal proceedings which were pending then," the AGC says in a statement.<br />
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<b>Jun 2013 :</b> In a media release, Human Rights Watch says that the MDA's new licensing rules seem intended to impose another check on popular websites more than to reduce any genuine harms. “Singapore’s new licensing requirement [will] clearly limit Singaporeans’ access to independent media,” says Cynthia Wong, senior Internet researcher at Human Rights Watch. “Websites will be forced into the role of private censors on behalf of the government.”<br />
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<b>Jul 2013 :</b> Cartoonist Leslie Chew is charged for committing "contempt of court by scandalizing the judiciary of the Republic of Singapore," the AGC says in a statement. The charges stem from four cartoons that Chew had published in 2011 and 2012, three of which were about the perceived unfairness of the courts when imposing punishment.<br />
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<b>Jul 2013 :</b> The government moves to bar The Independent, an upcoming news and current affairs website, from receiving foreign funding over fears the site could be a platform for overseas interests to influence local politics. The undertaking, the MDA notes, will "ensure that Singapore politics remain a matter for Singaporeans alone."<br />
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<b>Aug 2013 :</b> A security officer who vandalised the Cenotaph War Monument is sentenced to three months’ jail and three strokes of the cane. Mohamad Khalid Mohamad Yusop, 33, had used a can of red spray paint to write an “X” followed by the word “Democracy” on the monument.<br />
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<b>Aug 2013 :</b> The AGC turns down a request by the family of the late Mr Dinesh Raman to direct the coroner to reopen an inquest his death in 2010. The 21-year-old had died after a scuffle with eight prison officers following what the state described as a fierce struggle lasting thirty minutes. A criminal investigation by the authorities determined that the cause of death was "positional asphyxia." Deputy superintendent Lim Kwo Yin, the only one charged with regard to the incident, had previously been fined S$10,000 after pleading guilty.<br />
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<b>Aug 2013 :</b> The AGC says it will no longer pursue contempt of court charges against cartoonist Leslie Chew, after he publicly apologises and removes four offending cartoon strips from his Demon-cratic Singapore Facebook page.<br />
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<b>Sept 2013 :</b> At least 16 Muslims are still imprisoned without trial under the ISA. At least four of them have been detained for more than 10 years. Haji Ibrahim bin Haji Maidin, Mohamad Anuar bin Margono, Alahuddeen bin Abdullah and Mohd Aslam bin Yar Ali Khan were arrested shortly after 11 September 2001.<br />
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<b>Oct 2013 :</b> Police deny a permit for a March for Minimum Wage which was planned for International Human Rights Day. Filmmaker Martyn See had applied for the proposed route to start from Hong Lim Park and to end at the Istana. The police cite "risk of public order" in rejecting the permit.<br />
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<b>Oct 2013 :</b> The High Court dismisses a constitutional challenge against an archaic law criminalising sex between men, the second such petition turned down this year. A man who was arrested after being caught with a male partner in a public toilet cubicle had launched the challenge.<br />
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<b>Nov 2013 :</b> Yong Vui Kong, a Malaysian who was sentenced to hang in 2009, is spared the gallows after a judge rules he was satisfied Vui Kong acted as a drug courier, rather than having a wider part in the supply or distribution of narcotics. Vui Kong's sentence is commuted to life in prison and 15 strokes of the cane, marking the first time Singapore lifts the death penalty given to a drug trafficker.<br />
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<b>Dec 2013 :</b> Breakfast Network (BN), a local news commentary platform, announces its decision to close after much deliberation over the filling of C1 forms from the MDA under the Class License Act. Apart from the burden to prove that one does not receive foreign funding, the new forms also require the site to register names and other personal details of all contributors and editors involved with the website.<br />
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<b>Dec 2013 : </b>An Indian national is knocked down by a private bus in the Little India district on 8 December 2013, causing angry mobs of passersby to attack the bus at the scene. About 400 foreign workers hurl railings at police, set alight and overturn police cars and an ambulance. 39 police, SCDF and auxillary officers are injured. <br />
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Alcohol is quickly cited by the Government as the cause. Russell Heng, president of migrant workers' group Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2), says in a statement that Singapore should not see this event "purely as a law and order problem," adding that the foreign worker communities in Singapore have been at the receiving end of employment unfairness for a long time. <br />
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The Little India Riot is the first riot in Singapore since the 1969 race riots.<br />
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<b>Jan 2014 :</b> A Randstad report says Singapore workers are "the unhappiest in Asia." The survey finds that 23% of all Singaporean workers feel unmotivated and that their skills are not being used effectively. The main reasons for their unhappiness are an unsuitable corporate culture, demanding bosses and being asked to do more with less.<br />
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<b>Feb 2014 :</b> An Indian construction worker is sentenced to 15 weeks' prison on charges related to the Little India riot.<br />
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<b>Mar 2014 :</b> Lian Hock Kwee files a civil suit against the two doctors and Raffles Medical Group, who were providing medical services at Changi Women’s Prison (CWP). His daughter, 27-year old Lian Huizuan, had been sent to CWP for inhalant abuse; she was later found to have died from overmedication of the drugs that were prescribed to her while in prison. Both doctors apparently did not pick up the signs of Huizuan’s medical state although it was well documented in her medical file.<br />
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<b>Mar 2014 :</b> The AGC files a complaint against human rights lawyer M Ravi for releasing court documents to the media with respect to three cases. In the letter of complaint, the AGC claims that Mr Ravi acted “in a manner unbefitting an advocate and solicitor as an officer of the Supreme Court,” and that he made statements “to the media which contravened” parts of the Legal Profession (Professional Conduct) Rules.<br />
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<b>Apr 2014 :</b> Responding to the recent ranking by Reporters Without Borders where Singapore fell 14 places to a record 149th position in terms of press freedom, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong says that he does not take seriously Singapore’s low rankings, as he believes the way the media is managed “makes sense” for the country.<br />
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<b>May 2014 : </b>Police arrest five 17-year old youths for suspected involvement in a Toa Payoh graffiti case depicting crude slogans against the PAP. Choo Zheng Xi, a lawyer in private practice, criticises the Singapore mainstream media for subjecting the boys to public humiliation and not recognizing the importance of protecting the privacy of children (defined in international human rights treaties as a person below the age of 18).<br />
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<b>May 2014 : </b>Blogger Roy Ngerng is served with a letter of demand by lawyers for Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, for writing an article titled, “Where Your CPF Money Is Going: Learning From The City Harvest Trial." “The article means and is understood to mean that Mr Lee Hsien Loong, the Prime Minister and Chairman of GIC, is guilty of criminal misappropriation of the monies paid by Singaporeans to the CPF,” says the lawyer's letter.<br />
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The letter demands the article be removed from Mr Ngerng’s blog site and Facebook pages, for an apology to be posted on Mr Ngerng’s blog, and for Mr Ngerng to compensate Mr Lee by way of damages and to pay legal costs. Mr Ngerng is given three days to accede.<br />
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PM Lee Hsien Loong’s lawyers reject blogger Roy Ngerng’s $5,000 offer in damages as being “derisory” and proceed with legal process against Ngerng. The sum was based on Mr Ngerng’s modest living and income.<br />
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<b>Jun 2014 :</b> Roy Ngerng successfully raises fees for his legal defence in four days through crowdfunding, exceeding his target of SG $70,000 when he launched the campaign.<br />
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<b>Jun 2014 :</b> Roughly 2,000 people protest against perceived inadequacies in Singapore's state-run pension system, signaling rising discontent over retirement savings in the city-state. The demonstration at Hong Lim Park is the largest held since early 2013, when two protests against the government's immigration policies each drew more than 3,000 people.<br />
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<b>Jun 2014 :</b> The employer of blogger Roy Ngerng, Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH), publicly fires him for “conduct incompatible with the values and standards expected of employees” and for using hospital resources for personal reasons. The Ministry of Health intervenes to publicly support the hospital’s decision, even though the ministry was not involved in the matter. In a blog post, Ngerng writes that his sacking was "politically motivated.”<br />
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<b>Jun 2014 :</b> Taiwanese singer A-Mei is told that she cannot perform her song “Rainbow” in the Spring Wave Music Festival held at Gardens by the Bay just before her performance begins. The song depicts relationships between homosexuals.<br />
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<b>Jun 2014 :</b> Hong Kong's South China Morning Post publishes an open letter by author Catherine Lim about the “unprecedented crisis of trust” between the PAP Government and the people of Singapore. A week later, Singapore's Consul-General comments on Lim's long history as a government critic, while PAP MP Janil Puthucheary writes in The Straits Times that Ms Lim "cannot be trusted to be consistent in her own statements."<br />
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<b>Jun 2014 :</b> A Human Rights Watch dispatch writes about "the perils of blogging in Singapore," mentioning that free speech in the country is only free depending on who you are and who you are talking about. It describes government leaders as quick to bring a lawsuit in response to public [criticisms] that are ordinary in rights-respecting democracies.<br />
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<b>Jul 2014 :</b> The National Library Board (NLB) announces it will destroy three children's books with pro-LGBT families themes as they saw the titles as being "against its 'pro-family' stance" following complaints by a parent and its own internal review." Minister for Communications and Information, Yaacob Ibrahim, supports the NLB’s decision and says the NLB has to “reflect community norms.”<br />
The decision is widely criticized by LGBT supporters and the arts and literary community. Two of the books are eventually placed in the adult section instead of being pulped.<br />
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<b>Jul 2014 :</b> The MDA confirms that the comic, "Archie: The Married Life” Book Three was withdrawn from bookstores because its content “breached guidelines by depicting same-sex marriage of two characters.” The MDA said its Publications Consultative Panel advised that the theme of the comic was “not in line with social norms."<br />
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<b>Jul 2014 :</b> Amnesty International and the Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network publish a press release condemning the resumption of executions. “The executions by hanging of Tang Hai Liang and Foong Chee Peng represent a massive leap backwards for human rights in Singapore,” says Hazel Galang-Folli, AI’s Singapore researcher. “It is extremely disappointing that the authorities [did] not build on their clean record of no executions over the past two years to push for more reforms in the country.”<br />
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<b>Aug 2014 :</b> Former Robinsons employee Lawrence Wee, who claims to have been forced to resign from his position due to his homosexuality, has his appeal to the high court rejected. The decision confirms that employees who are 'forced to resign' after their employer makes their work-life unbearable are not entitled to any extra compensation.<br />
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<b>Sept 2014 :</b> Award winning film “To Singapore, with Love” by Singaporean film maker Tan Pin Pin, which depicts stories of Singapore political exiles, is classified by the MDA as Not Allowed for All Ratings (NAR). The documentary is banned from public screening in Singapore on the grounds that it undermines national security; MDA states that the individuals in the film gave "distorted and untruthful accounts."<br />
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<b>Sept 2014 :</b> The BBC censors a scene in the TV series, “Dr Who,” in order “to comply with the MDA broadcast code in Singapore.” The deleted scene in the sci-fi series is of Madame Vastra, a Silurian lizard-woman, “kissing” her human wife.<br />
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<b>Sept 2014 :</b> A clash of events occurs during a double booking at Hong Lim Park involving the YMCA and organisers of the Return Our CPF protests. The Straits Times and several Members of Parliament accuse the CPF protesters of heckling the special needs children performing at the YMCA event.<br />
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<b>Oct 2014 :</b> 22-year old blogger Han Hui Hui is questioned by police for seven hours over a possible offence of unlawful assembly during the CPF protest event which Ms Han had organised in September. Online reports say a notebook Ms Han is using to take down notes during the interview is seized by the police, and that she was not allowed to call her lawyer, M Ravi.<br />
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<b>Oct 2014 :</b> In a letter explaining the rationale for disallowing the film "To Singapore With Love" to be shown in public, the press secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister says that allowing it "would be like allowing jihadi terrorist groups today to produce and publicly screen films that glorify their jihadist cause."<br />
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<b>Oct 2014 :</b> In a joint statement, The National Parks Board (NParks) and the Singapore Police Force announce that the approval for blogger Han Hui Hui to speak and demonstrate at the Speakers Corner for the monthly CPF protest event has been cancelled. NParks says it will not approve further applications for use of Speakers Corner made by people under investigation for the double-booking Hong Lim Park event, until their cases are concluded.<br />
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<b>Oct 2014 :</b> The National Solidarity Party (NSP) appeals to the president over the refusal by the MDA to renew its printing permit for its party newspaper. The main point of dispute is the submission of the monthly salary and "disposable capital" of each member of the NSP Central Executive Committee (CEC) to the Registrar of Newspapers (RON). The CEC members object to the requirements on grounds that they intrude into their personal privacy and personal confidentiality.<br />
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<b>Nov 2014 :</b> The High Court allows summary judgement against blogger Roy Ngerng in the defamation suit filed by PM Lee Hsien Loong. The judge also orders an injunction to restrain Mr Ngerng from publishing or disseminating allegations that Mr Lee is guilty of criminal misappropriation of the monies paid by Singaporeans to the Central Provident Funds, or any words or images to the same effect.<br />
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<b>Nov 2014 :</b> In an interview with a Chinese television outlet, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong defends the high salaries of government officers. Members of Parliament are currently paid S$16,000 per month; this amount is justified as a salary that is “realistic” and “correct."<br />
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<b>Dec 2014 :</b> For the first time in its history, Dim Sum Dollies – The History of Singapore Part 2 is issued a classification rating of “Advisory 16 (Some Mature Content)” by the MDA, on account of sociopolitical references in the musical cabaret group's work. The MDA grants it a licence to perform just three days before the show is set to open at the Esplanade.<br />
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<b>Jan 2015 :</b> The Singapore court orders Roy Ngerng to pay S$29,000 (US$21,700) to PM Lee Hsien Loong as legal costs, after Lee won a defamation case late last year.<br />
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<b>Jan 2015 :</b> For “misconduct unbefitting an advocate and solicitor,” human rights lawyer M. Ravi is fined $7,000 by the Council of the Law Society of Singapore. In a statement, Human Rights Watch says it is "deeply concerned that the disciplinary sanctions and significant fines against Ravi are being imposed to punish him for his important human rights work on behalf of LGBT people, migrant workers and others."<br />
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<b>Feb 2015 :</b> In the 2015 World Press Freedom Index, Singapore is placed three notches down its previous year's 150th place, the worst showing since the index began in 2002.<br />
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<b>Feb 2015 :</b> The Singapore Police Force rejects an application by Gilbert Goh to hold an event at Speakers’ Corner. Mr Goh’s event is titled “In Solidarity with Singaporean Indians – Thaipusam to be Made a Public Holiday." Police reject the Hong Lim Park event application as “the planned event runs a significant risk of public disorder."<br />
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<b>Feb 2015 :</b> The Law Society of Singapore orders Human Rights lawyer, M. Ravi to stop his legal practice until he goes for a medical examination. This comes after Ravi's client filed an application to the High Court regarding issues pertaining to Thaipusam, which is described by the Attorney-General’s Chambers as "scandalous, frivolous and vexatious, and an abuse of process."<br />
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<b>Feb 2015 :</b> Two persons from socio-political website, The Real Singapore (TRS), are arrested and investigated by the police for offenses under the Sedition Act. The arrests were prompted by an article alleging that a Filipino family's complaint over noise from drummers led to a scuffle during a Hindu procession. Singaporean law student Yang Kaiheng (26) and Australian citizen Ai Takagi (22) may be fined up to $5,000 or jailed for up to three years, or both.<br />
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<b>Feb 2015 :</b> Filmmaker Martyn See files a police report against the Minister of State for Health Dr Lam Pin Min, over his Facebook posting on a Thaipusam incident. See claims Dr Lam’s comment incited enmity towards the Hindu community by "stating as fact that devotees were intoxicated while participating in the holy festival of Thaipusam." The police eventually drops the case against Dr Lam.<br />
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<b>Feb 2015 :</b> Dr Ting Choon Meng and The Online Citizen (TOC) receive a lawyer’s letter from the Attorney General’s Chambers (AGC) over the a video interview with the latter who had alleged that the Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) had copied his patented concept for an emergency mobile clinic. The AGC threatens to use the Protection from Harassment Act, citing that Dr Ting had made "false statements" against MINDEF.<br />
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<b>Mar 2015 :</b> Blogger Alex Au is fined $8,000 for contempt of court over an article that allegedly implied the Chief Justice showed partiality towards two constitutional challenges against Section 377A, the law which criminalises sex between men.<br />
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<b>Mar 2015 :</b> Lee Kuan Yew dies, prompting extensive newspaper coverage and televised tributes.<br />
A 2013 Order designating Hong Lim Park as an "unrestricted area" under the Public Order Act is revoked while an estimated 400,000 people make a beeline to the Istana to pay their last respects to the founding prime minister.<br />
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<b>Mar 2015 :</b> In a 8-minute youtube video entitled "Lee Kuan Yew Is Finally Dead!", 16-year-old Amos Yee denounces the late Lee Kuan Yew as "a horrible person", calls the government "undoubtedly totalitarian" and likens Lee's supporters to "malicious and power-hungry" Christians. Responding to a flurry of police complaints, police arrests the teenager in his home on charges of wounding religious feelings, offensive remarks against Lee Kuan Yew and circulating obscene material for a separate blogpost depicting Lee and Margaret Thatcher in a cartoon.<br />
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<b>Apr 2015 :</b> Two Singaporean men, aged 24 and 25, are arrested for staging a weekend protest outside the Istana. A Singapore Police Force spokesman says the duo are arrested for organising a public assembly without a permit under the Public Order Act.<br />
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<b>Apr 2015 : </b>Yang Kaiheng and Ai Takagi of socio-political website The Real Singapore (TRS) are charged with seven counts of sedition and one for failing to produce documents to an officer from the Criminal Investigation Department. The couple were told to provide information about the website's operations and finances to authorities.<br />
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<b>May 2015 :</b> In compliance to an order by the Government to shut down within six hours or face fines and imprisonment, The Real Singapore (TRS) removes its website and all its online channels. MDA states that TRS had "sought to incite foreigner sentiments in Singapore" and orders the website owners not to resume any online operations under any other name.<br />
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<b>May 2015 : </b>The owner of new website 'Straits Times Review' changes its name to 'States Times Review' after Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) announces that it is considering legal recourse against its owner for using the name of its flagship newspaper. Australia-based Singaporean Alex Tan, the owner of STR, adds that he has changed the name to "avoid legal confrontation with The Straits Times."<br />
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<b>May 2015 :</b> The court grants the application by MINDEF under the Protection from Harassment Act (POHA) against Dr Ting Choon Ming and The Online Citizen over a video interview. District Judge Bala Reddy orders that the video must include a prominent notification - at the start and at the end of the video, and lasting at least 30 seconds each - that certain statements made by Dr Ting have since been declared by the courts to be false. The judge also ruled that the Government has the legal right to apply for an order under POHA.<br />
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<b>May 2015 :</b> At a dialogue, Minister Lawrence Wong reveals that the government might be considering laws to protect the name and image of the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s first Prime Minister, against "commercial exploitation and misuse."<br />
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<b>May 2015 : </b>The Government bans the song "We’re All Different, Yet The Same" by Taiwanese artiste Jolin Tsai for local broadcasting, purportedly due to its promotion of gay marriage. According to Mingpao News, the MDA sent ban notices to television and radio stations in the country to not air the song or the music video. <br />
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<b>May 2015 : </b>Singapore Press Holdings files a copyright infringement suit against Yang Kaiheng and Ai Takagi of The Real Singapore (TRS), citing at least 191 articles from its stable of newspapers that were substantially reproduced, without licence or authorisation, in the form of 177 articles on TRS.<br />
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<b>May 2015 :</b> The National Arts Council (NAC) withdraws its earlier approved $8,000 publication grant to Malaysia-born award-winning comics artist, Sonny Liew due to "sensitive content" depicted in his 324-page comic book. In a press statement, NAC says that "The Art Of Charlie Chan Hock Chye" potentially “undermines the authority or legitimacy” of the Government.<br />
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<b>Jun 2015 : </b>A heroin trafficker who has been on death row for more than 4 years fails in his bid to escape the gallows, after the High Court found that he did not meet the criteria to be re-sentenced to life imprisonment. Kester Ng Wei Ren, 54, is the first to have his application for re-sentencing dismissed.<br />
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<b>Jun 2015 :</b> The Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) sends The Online Citizen a take-down notification for a letter by Mr Alfred Dodwell, the lawyer representing Amos Yee. The letter had described Yee's deteriorating physical and psychological health in the Institute of Mental Health. The AGC says that publication of the letter amounts to sub judice conduct. Meanwhile, the United Nations Human Rights Office for South-East Asia (OHCHR) urges the Singapore Government to consider the best interests of the 16-year-old prisoner. Events organised by civil society groups in Malaysia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore are subsequently held to campaign for Yee's release.<br />
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<b>Jul 2015 :</b> Migrant workers' rights activist Jolovan Wham is not allowed to register a company. In October 2013, the Ministry of Finance denied the application of the Community Action Network (CAN) to register under the Companies Act, stating that it would be "against national interest." The Finance Ministry found that prior activities to assist migrant workers by Jolovan Wham, the proposed co-director of CAN, meant that CAN might serve as a "vehicle for unwarranted labor agitation, especially among foreign workers."<br />
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<b>Jul 2015 :</b> Singapore is ranked Tier 2 in the 2015 Trafficking in Persons Report released by the US Department of State, meaning that the government does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking. The report highlights that many low-wage migrant workers accrue significant debts through recruitment fees, making them vulnerable to forced labour.<br />
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<b>Jul 2015 :</b> Blogger Amos Yee is handed a backdated four-week jail sentence and is released. The prosecution decides not to press for reformative training, citing the “seismic shift” in Yee's attitude in the time he has been held. Yee, who spent a total of 55 days detained on remand as the court considered his sentence, is downcast and dazed as he leaves the court. Hong Kong protesters had burnt effigies of Lee Kuan Yew and Lee Hsien Loong to protest the Singapore government's treatment of the teenager. <br />
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<b>Aug 2015 :</b> SWAMI Home, a Voluntary Welfare Organisation, is reprimanded by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) after a complaint by NGO worker Ravi Philemon that the organisation had breached its own constitution by allowing its premises to be used by the PAP to unveil its candidates. A MHA spokesman says that the "Swami is a registered society. It is obliged to adhere to its constitution."<br />
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<b>Aug 2015 :</b> A Singapore Democratic Party's (SDP) video, entitled “Pappy Washing Powder”, is classified a party political film by the Media Development Authority (MDA) and therefore prohibited under the Films Act. SDP calls on the government to review its classification of the party’s satirical video, with SDP Secretary-General Chee Soon Juan arguing that the Films Act has not been consistently applied to all parties, including the government.<br />
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Former political prisoner Vincent Cheng describes his arrest in 1987 by the secret police who entered his home at 5am in the morning. Cheng was held without trial for 3 years under the Internal Security Act (ISA). This speech was recorded in Singapore at the book launch of Beyond The Blue gate in 2010.<br />
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Former political prisoner Teo Soh Lung speaks of her detention and the abuse of the Internal Security Act (ISA) at the book launch of Beyond The Blue Gate in 2010 in Singapore.MInghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00812324746322990767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9272856.post-56395409540474012512015-06-27T13:13:00.000+08:002015-06-27T13:13:46.631+08:00Video : The Fajar Generation<br />Former political prisoners of Singapore speak of their struggles against British colonialists and subsequent detentions by Lee Kuan Yew, the autocratic strongman of post-colonial Singapore.<br /><br />In memory of :<br />Mr Tan Jing Quee (18 Jan 1939 – 14 Jun 2011) and <br />Dr Lim Hock Siew (21 February 1931 – 4 June 2012)
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<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/03/lee-kuan-yew-conundrum-democracy-singapore/388955/?utm_source=SFFB">The Lee Kuan Yew Conundrum</a><br />
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<a href="http://thecrazyangmoandhisangrywife.blogspot.sg/2015/03/the-harder-truth.html">The Harder Truth</a><br />
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<a href="http://desparatebeep.blogspot.sg/2015/03/the-prince.html">The Prince</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.lukeyishandsome.com/2015/03/five-things-that-went-right-and-wrong.html">Five things that went right and wrong after Lee Kuan Yew's Passing</a><br />
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<a href="http://catherinelim.sg/2015/03/30/if-only-to-the-memory-of-lee-kuan-yew/">If Only—To The Memory Of Lee Kuan Yew (1923–2015)</a> - Catherine Lim<br />
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<a href="http://everythingalsocomplain.com/2015/03/30/lky-using-chicken-feathers-to-cure-hiccups/">LKY using chicken feathers to cure hiccups</a><br />
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<a href="https://trulysingapore.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/response-to-lkys-legacy/">Response to “LKY’s legacy”</a><br />
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<a href="http://singaporealternatives.blogspot.sg/2015/03/please-wake-up-to-dawn-of-post-lky-era.html">Please Wake Up to Dawn of Post LKY Era</a><br />
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<a href="http://theunseensingapore.blogspot.sg/2015/03/who-is-mysterious-girl-at-lee-kuan-yews.html">Who is the Mysterious Girl at Lee Kuan Yew's State Funeral?</a><br />
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<a href="http://chanjoonyee.com/2015/03/31/a-legacy-of-zero-tolerance/">A Legacy Of Zero Tolerance</a><br />
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<a href="http://newnation.sg/2015/03/silent-majority-relieved-they-can-go-back-into-hiding-now-that-7-day-lee-kuan-yew-mourning-period-is-over/">Silent Majority relieved they can go back into hiding now that 7-day Lee Kuan Yew mourning period is over</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2015/04/a-gay-mans-perspective-on-lee-kuan-yew/">A gay man’s perspective on Lee Kuan Yew</a><br />
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<a href="http://therealsingapore.com/content/interesting-interview-late-mr-lee-kuan-yew-his-regular-meditation">INTERESTING INTERVIEW WITH THE LATE MR LEE KUAN YEW ON HIS REGULAR MEDITATION</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/04/01/sing-a01.html"> Lee Kuan Yew, founder of Singapore (1923-2015)</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2015/03/31/commentary/world-commentary/lee-kuan-yew-and-the-myth-of-asian-capitalism/#.VRw4ezuUfZo">Lee Kuan Yew and the myth of Asian capitalism</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/Lee%20Kuan%20Yew:%20remembering%20an%20authoritarian%20leader">Lee Kuan Yew: remembering an authoritarian leader</a><br />
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<a href="https://medium.com/one-too-many-cents/we-need-to-talk-about-him-1b25ba24e240">We need to talk about him</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21647628-singapore-shows-how-deal-opinionated-patriarch-power-and-hoary">The power and the hoary</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2015/04/01/after-lee-where-to-now-for-the-pap/">After Lee, where to now for the PAP?</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2015/03/31/commentary/world-commentary/singapores-iron-patriarch/#.VRw6rTuUfZo">Singapore’s iron patriarch</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.salon.com/2015/04/01/we_decide_what_is_right_never_mind_what_the_people_think_the_iron_grip_of_singapores_lee_kuan_yew/">“We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think”: The iron grip of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2015/04/lee-kuan-yew-and-the-law-society/">Lee Kuan Yew and the Law Society</a><br />
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<a href="http://asiancorrespondent.com/131853/critics-are-missing-the-point-problem-lies-with-hate-speech-law-amos-yee-case/">Critics miss the point, problem lies with hate speech law in Amos Yee case</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.allsingaporestuff.com/article/we-are-all-amos-yee-je-suis-amos">WE ARE ALL AMOS YEE (JE SUIS AMOS)</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.tremeritus.com/2015/04/02/tan-wah-piow-response-to-a-critic-read-carefully-and-think-slowly/">Tan Wah Piow responds to a critic: Dear Jackson, read carefully, and think slowly</a><br />
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<a href="http://news.sky.com/story/1455680/singapore-teen-held-for-likening-ex-pm-to-hitler">Sky News : Singapore Teen Held For Likening Ex-PM To Hitler</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/opinion/2015/04/01/the-martyrdom-of-young-amos-lee/">The martyrdom of young Amos Yee</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/singapores-arrest-of-a-16yearold-youtuber-is-all-you-need-to-know-about-lee-kuan-yews-legacy-10146756.html">Singapore's arrest of a 16-year-old YouTuber is all you need to know about Lee Kuan Yew's legacy</a><br />
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<a href="http://m.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/lee-kuan-yew-gave-singapore-independence-and-the-world-a-bad-idea/article23610260/?service=mobile">Lee Kuan Yew gave Singapore independence, and the world a bad idea</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/thousands-flock-to-in/1765442.html">Thousands flock to In Memoriam: Lee Kuan Yew Exhibition</a><br />
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<a href="https://youtu.be/-7wzM9qeWSM">Video : Lee Kuan Yew is dead; Free Amos Yee</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2015/04/interview-with-thum-ping-tjin-about-lee-kuan-yews-singapore-part-3/">Interview with Thum Ping Tjin about Lee Kuan Yew’s Singapore </a><br />
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<a href="https://tnesingapore.wordpress.com/2015/04/03/one-party-rule-not-the-reason-for-singapores-success-low/">One-party rule not the reason for Singapore’s success: Low</a><br />
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<a href="http://news.asiaone.com/news/singapore/whats-next-singapore-after-lee-kuan-yew">What's next for Singapore after Lee Kuan Yew?</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/duo-arrested-for/1766516.html">Duo arrested for organising public assembly without permit outside Istana</a><br />
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<a href="http://asiancorrespondent.com/131901/arrest-two-peaceful-protesters-questions-freedom-of-assembly-singapore/">Arrest of two peaceful protesters raises questions on freedom of assembly in Singapore</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.nknews.org/2015/04/north-korea-and-singapore-two-families-two-nations/">North Korea and Singapore: Two families, two nations</a><br />
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<a href="http://therealsingapore.com/content/two-men-involved-istana-protest-share-reason-why-they-did-it">TWO MEN INVOLVED IN ISTANA PROTEST SHARE THE REASON WHY THEY DID IT</a><br />
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<a href="http://therealsingapore.com/content/everyone-wrong-amos-yees-video-was-perfectly-timed-delivered-and-heard">OPEN LETTER TO AMOS, HIS PARENTS AND PM LEE</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-arrest-of-a-teen-aged-youtube-star?mbid=social_facebook">Amos Yee: YouTube Star, Teen-Ager, Dissident</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Opinion/Commentary/2015/Apr-09/293798-those-praising-lee-kuan-yew-ignored-the-benefits-of-democracy.ashx">Those praising Lee Kuan Yew ignored the benefits of democracy</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.citymetric.com/politics/lee-kuan-yew-leaves-behind-ambiguous-legacy-singapore-896">Lee Kuan Yew leaves behind an ambiguous legacy in Singapore</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20150409000694">Legacy of Lee Kuan Yew</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/525391/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-lee-kuan-yew-s-dynasty">The beginning of the end of Lee Kuan Yew’s dynasty?</a>MInghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00812324746322990767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9272856.post-6514326814943852472015-03-23T23:30:00.000+08:002015-04-27T09:23:47.956+08:00Lee Kuan Yew dies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/singapore-s-first-prime/1720740.html">Singapore’s first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew dies aged 91</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/more-singapore-stories/story/lee-kuan-yew-singapores-founding-father-dies-aged-91-201#sthash.Agj3jeCq.dpuf">Singapore's founding father Mr Lee Kuan Yew dies aged 91 at 3.18am on Monday</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/singapore/11488949/Singapores-Lee-Kuan-Yew-dies-aged-91.html">Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew dies aged 91</a>
<a href="https://sg.news.yahoo.com/singapores-first-prime-minister-lee-kuan-yew-dead-203605855.html">Singapore in mourning as first PM Lee Kuan Yew dies</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/more-singapore-stories/story/pm-lee-grieved-beyond-words-mr-lee-kuan-yews-death-20150#sthash.Ze9W6UB0.dpuf">PM Lee Hsien Loong 'grieved beyond words' at Mr Lee Kuan Yew's death</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/singapore/11489273/Lee-Kuan-Yew-a-model-for-the-New-Authoritarians-or-a-one-off-genius.html">Lee Kuan Yew: a model for the New Authoritarians or a one-off genius?</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/more-singapore-stories/story/mr-lee-kuan-yews-body-comes-rest-istana-private-family-w#sthash.Thi5gssc.dpuf">Mr Lee Kuan Yew's body comes to rest at Istana for private family wake</a>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIhGz3Y1Ljk">BBC World News - Singapore's Founding Father Lee Kuan Yew Dies Peacefully, Aged 91 </a><br />
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<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/23/lee-kuan-yews-legacy-of-authoritarian-pragmatism-will-serve-singapore-well">Lee Kuan Yew leaves a legacy of authoritarian pragmatism</a>
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<a href="https://sg.news.yahoo.com/lees-authoritarian-legacy-may-fall-short-singapore-081443654.html">Lee's authoritarian legacy may fall short for new Singapore</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2015/03/lee-kuan-yews-death-will-set-the-people-free/">Lee Kuan Yew’s death will set the people free</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/mr-lee-kuan-yew-was-a/1734474.html">Mr Lee Kuan Yew was a ‘lifelong champion of the rule of law’</a>
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<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/22/lee-kuan-yew">Lee Kuan Yew obituary - Philip Bowring</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/03/lee-kuan-yew/388397/">Lee Kuan Yew, the Leader Who Lasted</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/singapore-says-goodbye-to-lee-kuan-yew-1427096087">Singapore Says Goodbye to Lee Kuan Yew</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/23/us-singapore-leekuanyew-idUSKBN0MI08Y20150323">Lee Kuan Yew, founding father of modern Singapore, dies at 91</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/lee-kuan-yew-singapores-founding-father-dies-at-91-1427056223">Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s Founding Father, Dies at 91</a><br />
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<a href="http://fortune.com/2015/03/23/father-of-singapore-lee-kuan-yew-dies-at-91/">‘Father of Singapore’ Lee Kuan Yew Dies at 91</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/25/world/asia/singapore-the-nation-that-lee-built-questions-its-direction.html?_r=0">Singapore, the Nation That Lee Kuan Yew Built, Questions Its Direction</a><br />
<br /><a href="http://poskod.my/features/remembering-lee-kuan-yew-singapores-mercurial-father/">Lee Kuan Yew: Singapore’s Mercurial Father</a><br />
<a href="http://qz.com/365459/how-lee-kuan-yew-made-singapore-the-most-prosperous-efficient-and-quirkily-repressive-country-in-asia/">How Lee Kuan Yew made Singapore the most prosperous, efficient, and quirkily repressive country in Asia</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-32014307">Singapore mourns founding father Lee Kuan Yew</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/chriswright/2015/03/22/singapore-prepares-for-life-after-lee-kuan-yew/">Singapore Prepares For Life After Lee Kuan Yew</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/24/world/asia/lee-kuan-yew-of-singapore-prasied-by-world-leaders.html?_r=0">Teary Mourners in Singapore Remember Lee Kuan Yew</a><br />
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<a href="http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/03/22/long-live-lee-kuan-yew-s-lion-city-singapore/">Long Live Lee Kuan Yew’s Lion City</a><br />
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<a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2015/03/22/asia/singapore-lee-kuan-yew-obit/">Lee Kuan Yew: Singapore's founding father divided opinion</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/23/lee-kuan-yew-is-gone-where-does-singapore-go-now">Lee Kuan Yew is gone. Where does Singapore go now?</a><br />
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<a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/46659311.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst">Lee Kuan Yew was a visionary leader, says Barack Obama </a><br />
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<a href="http://www.voanews.com/content/former-singapore-pm-lee-kuan-yew-dies/2690536.html">Lee Kuan Yew, Founder of Modern Singapore, Dies at 91</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.amnesty.org/press-releases/2015/03/singapore-death-of-lee-kuan-yew/">Amnesty International - Singapore: Death of Lee Kuan Yew</a><br />
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<a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/breakingviews/2015/03/23/founding-father-made-singapore-rich-but-not-happy/">Lee Kuan Yew: Founding father made Singapore rich but not happy</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/24/opinion/roger-cohen-can-do-lee-kuan-yew.html?_r=0">Can-Do Lee Kuan Yew</a><br />
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<a href="https://sg.news.yahoo.com/no-events-allowed-at-speakers--corner-following-lee-kuan-yew-s-death-082741419.html">No events allowed at Speakers' Corner following Lee Kuan Yew's death</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/more-singapore-stories/story/gun-carriage-carry-mr-lee-kuan-yews-coffin-istana-parlia#sthash.Q3BrBynj.dpuf">Gun carriage to carry Mr Lee Kuan Yew's coffin from Istana to Parliament House on Wednesday</a><br />
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<a href="http://news.asiaone.com/news/singapore/20-condolence-sites-around-singapore-tributes-mr-lee-kuan-yew#sthash.0SFKIBKA.dpuf">45 condolence sites around Singapore for tributes to Mr Lee Kuan Yew</a><br />
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<a href="http://wishcrys.com/2015/03/23/mr-lee-kuan-yew-and-the-spectacle-of-death-the-first-twelve-hours-on-social-media/">Mr Lee Kuan Yew and the spectacle of death: The first twelve hours on social media</a><br />
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<a href="http://qz.com/365559/creating-singapore-the-life-of-lee-kuan-yew/">Creating Singapore: The life of Lee Kuan Yew</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-world-will-miss-lee-kuan-yew/2015/03/23/80867914-d172-11e4-8fce-3941fc548f1c_story.html">Henry A. Kissinger: The world will miss Lee Kuan Yew</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.thetibetpost.com/en/news/international/4477-tibets-leader-offers-condolences-over-the-death-of-lee-kwan-yew">Tibet's leader offers condolences over the Death of Lee Kwan Yew</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.todayonline.com/rememberinglky/mr-lee-kuan-yews-passing-marks-end-era-low-thia-khiang">Opposition parties offer their condolences to PM Lee</a><br />
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<a href="https://cpj.org/blog/2015/03/lee-kuan-lews-legacy.php">Lee Kuan Yew's legacy - CPJ</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.asiasentinel.com/politics/darker-side-lee-kuan-yew/2/">The Darker Side of Lee Kuan Yew</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/highlight/2015/03/23/the-other-side-of-lee-kuan-yew/">The other side of Lee Kuan Yew</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.bfm.my/lee-kuan-yew-singapore-thum-ping-tjin.html">Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore</a><br />
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<a href="http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2015/03/24/lee-kuan-yews-political-legacy-a-matter-of-trust/">Lee Kuan Yew’s political legacy – a matter of trust</a><br />
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<a href="http://singaporerecalcitrant.blogspot.sg/2015/03/is-this-passing-of-titan.html">Is this the passing of a Titan?</a><br />
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<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/lee-singapore-looks-beyond-authoritarian-legacy-102431119.html">After Lee, Singapore looks beyond his authoritarian legacy</a><br />
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<a href="http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-23/the-legacy-of-lee-kuan-yew/6342188">The legacy of Lee Kuan Yew</a><br />
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<a href="http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2015/03/25/assess-lee-kuan-yew-which-one/">Assess Lee Kuan Yew? Which one?</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/visionary-perhaps-but-singapore-s-lee-kuan-yew-was-not-democracy-s-friend-1.3008047">Visionary, perhaps, but Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew was not democracy's friend</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152764937577934&fref=nf">Khaw Boon Wan shed tears</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/25/world/asia/singapore-the-nation-that-lee-built-questions-its-direction.html?_r=1">Singapore, the Nation That Lee Kuan Yew Built, Questions Its Direction</a><br />
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<a href="http://holmesish.com/2015/03/23/lee-kuan-yew-singapores-greatest-storyteller-is-dead/">Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s greatest storyteller, is dead</a><br />
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<a href="http://therealsingapore.com/content/its-time-stop-using-fishing-village-rhetoric-its-completely-untrue">The fishing-village-to-modern-metropolis fable is so romantic</a><br />
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<a href="http://mothership.sg/2015/03/today-newspaper-apologises-for-misrepresenting-low-thia-khiangs-tribute-to-lky-in-parliament/">Today newspaper apologises for misrepresenting Low Thia Khiang’s tribute to LKY in Parliament</a><br />
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<a href="http://nehandaradio.com/2015/03/27/robert-mugabe-vs-lee-kuan-yew-a-zimbabwean-tribute/">Robert Mugabe vs Lee Kuan Yew: A Zimbabwean tribute</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/the-west-has-it-totally-wrong-on-lee-kuan-yew-10135641.html">The West has it totally wrong on Lee Kuan Yew</a><br />
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<a href="http://mothership.sg/2015/03/villagers-in-lee-kuan-yews-ancestral-home-in-south-chinas-guangdong-province-are-also-paying-their-respects/">Villagers in Lee Kuan Yew’s ancestral home in south China’s Guangdong province are also paying their respects</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/lew-kuan-yew-nepotism-pm-lee-hsien-loong-history-says-opposition-leader-kenneth-jeyaretnam-1493727">Lee Kuan Yew 'nepotism': PM Lee Hsien Loong is history says opposition leader Kenneth Jeyaretnam</a><br />
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<a href="http://m.todayonline.com/rememberinglky/no-let-surge-pay-respects-sheer-crowd-numbers-prompt-authorities-suspend-queue-health">No let-up in surge to pay respects</a><br />
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<a href="http://insidestory.org.au/i-thought-that-dawn-had-come-to-the-political-landscape-of-singapore">“I thought that dawn had come to the political landscape of Singapore”</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jMODDfNE0Y">Lee Kuan Yew Is Finally Dead!</a><br />
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<a href="http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/03/27/singapore-lee-dissidents-idINKBN0MN1MQ20150327">After Lee, no sign of welcome home for Singapore's dissidents</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/lee-kuan-yew-death-beyond-queuing-mourners-dissent-reigns-online-1493921">Lee Kuan Yew death: Beyond the queuing mourners, dissent reigns online</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2015/03/kuan-yew-and-i-by-mahathir-mohamad/">Kuan Yew and I – by Mahathir Mohamad</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/03/25/critics-call-singapore-an-autocracy-but-i-never-felt-more-free-than-when-i-lived-there/?postshare=4931427328305131">Critics call Singapore an autocracy. But I never felt more free than when I lived there.</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2015/03/singapore-is-not-an-autocracy-but-were-not-free-either/">Singapore is not an autocracy, but we’re not free either</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.businesstimes.com.sg/blogs/miss-ann-thrope/by-gum-the-west-is-wrong-about-singapore">By gum, the West is wrong about Singapore</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/lee-kuan-yews-son-faces-a-changing-singapore-1427447170">Lee Kuan Yew’s Son Faces a Changing Singapore</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/singapore-schools-teach-the-abcs-of-lee-kuan-yew-1427532288">Singapore Schools Teach the ABCs of Lee Kuan Yew</a><br />
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<a href="http://mothership.sg/2015/03/lets-acknowledge-lee-kuan-yews-full-legacy-the-warts-along-with-the-achievements/">Let’s acknowledge Lee Kuan Yew’s full legacy – the warts along with the achievements</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/more-singapore-stories/story/critical-battles-letting-go-past-not-forgetting-it-20150#sthash.0knUtq0F.dpuf">Critical Battles: Letting go of past, but not forgetting it</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/more-singapore-stories/story/lee-kuan-yew-good-man-good-husband-good-father-and-grand#xtor=CS1-10">Mr Lee Kuan Yew a good man, a good husband, a good father and grandfather, says son Hsien Yang in eulogy</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/more-singapore-stories/story/he-would-always-be-my-teacher-mr-goh-chok-tong-eulogy-20#xtor=CS1-10">Mr Lee Kuan Yew would always be my teacher, says Goh Chok Tong in eulogy</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/mr-lee-kuan-yew-lived-to/1750514.html">Mr Lee Kuan Yew lived to see his life’s work come to fruition: PM Lee Hsien Loong</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/more-singapore-stories/story/ten-moving-eulogies-delivered-funeral-service-mr-lee-kua#sthash.uAswYDD8.dpuf">10 moving eulogies delivered at funeral service of Mr Lee Kuan Yew</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/lee-kuan-yew-death-can-lee-hsien-loong-take-singapore-into-future-1493900">Lee Kuan Yew death: Can Lee Hsien Loong take Singapore into the future?</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/singapore-turns-out-for-lee-kuan-yews-funeral-1427609125">Singapore Turns Out for Lee Kuan Yew’s Funeral</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/more-singapore-stories/story/15-police-reports-filed-over-teens-online-video-allegedl#sthash.gnpnKEE1.dpuf">15 police reports filed over teen's online video allegedly celebrating Mr Lee Kuan Yew's death</a> -<br />
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<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/singapore-bids-farewell-lee-kuan-yew-elaborate-funeral-023859308.html">Lee Kuan Yew eulogized at funeral as architect of Singapore</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-29/thousands-brave-heavy-singapore-rain-to-farewell-lee-kuan-yew">Lee Kuan Yew Remembered as Singapore’s ‘Father’ at State Funeral</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-32102686">Lee Kuan Yew: Singapore holds funeral procession</a><br />
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<a href="http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-32104203">Lee Kuan Yew: On the Singapore streets for the funeral</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-31939304">Lee Kuan Yew: Which way now for Singapore?</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1750277/kim-jong-un-impersonator-disrupts-hong-kong-broadcast-lee-kuan-yews">Kim Jong-un impersonator disrupts Hong Kong broadcast of Lee Kuan Yew's funeral</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/donaldkirk/2015/03/29/singapores-lee-kuan-yew-and-koreas-park-chung-hee-two-tough-leaders-with-much-in-common/">Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew, Korea's Park Chung-Hee -- Two Dictatorial Leaders With One Basic Agenda</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/singapore/11502402/Thousands-line-streets-for-Lee-Kuan-Yews-funeral-procession-in-Singapore.html">Thousands line streets for Lee Kuan Yew's funeral procession in Singapore</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152661931017115&set=vb.129011692114&type=2&theater">Video interviews of mourners</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.pmo.gov.sg/mediacentre/eulogy-mr-li-shengwu-cremation-service-late-mr-lee-kuan-yew">Eulogy by Mr Li Shengwu at Cremation Service of the Late Mr Lee Kuan Yew</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.pmo.gov.sg/mediacentre/eulogy-mr-li-hongyi-cremation-service-late-mr-lee-kuan-yew">Eulogy by Mr Li Hongyi at Cremation Service of the Late Mr Lee Kuan Yew</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.pmo.gov.sg/mediacentre/excerpt-eulogy-dr-lee-wei-ling-cremation-service-late-mr-lee-kuan-yew">Excerpt of Eulogy by Dr Lee Wei Ling at Cremation Service of the Late Mr Lee Kuan Yew</a><br />
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MInghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00812324746322990767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9272856.post-20172085597612786432015-03-21T13:35:00.005+08:002015-03-28T16:22:18.259+08:00The best of Lee Hsien Loong Part ll<a href="http://singaporerebel.blogspot.sg/2014/08/posters-best-of-lee-hsien-loong.html">The best of Lee Hsien Loong Part l</a><br />
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<br />MInghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00812324746322990767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9272856.post-88818914024890147802015-02-27T23:21:00.003+08:002015-04-11T13:23:11.543+08:00Photos : Lee Kuan Yew's Analects Part lll<a href="http://singaporerebel.blogspot.sg/2014/08/photos-lee-kuan-yews-analects-part-ll.html">Photos : Lee Kuan Yew's analects Part ll</a><br />
<a href="http://singaporerebel.blogspot.sg/2011/11/photos-lee-kuan-yews-analects.html">Photos : Lee Kuan Yew's Analects Part l</a><br />
<a href="http://singaporerebel.blogspot.sg/2013/10/photos-will-real-kuan-yew-please-stand.html">Photos : Will the real Kuan Yew please stand up?</a><br />
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<br />MInghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00812324746322990767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9272856.post-28382184905162384272015-02-08T13:51:00.002+08:002015-02-08T13:52:17.685+08:00Lee Kuan Yew a "political pimp" : Dr Poh Soo KaiLinks :<br />
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<a href="http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2014/12/03/singapores-battle-for-merger-revisited/">Singapore’s ‘Battle for Merger’ revisited</a><br />
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<a href="http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2015/01/14/singapores-battle-for-merger-revisited-part-ii/">Singapore’s “Battle for Merger” revisited – Part II</a><br />
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by Dr Poh Soo Kai, 2 February 2015<br />
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<a href="http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/more-singapore-stories/story/singapore-government-responds-allegations-ex-detainee-po">Singapore Government responds to allegations by ex-detainee Poh Soo Kai on Operation Coldstore </a><br />
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A blow-by-blow rebuttal to Singapore High Commissioner to Australia Mr Burhan Gafoor’s “Response to Poh Soo Kai’s allegations”.<br />
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<a href="https://trulysingapore.wordpress.com/2014/12/23/rebutting-burhan-gafoor-part-1-selkirk-and-moore/">Rebutting Burhan Gafoor – Part 1 (Selkirk & Moore)</a><br />
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<a href="https://trulysingapore.wordpress.com/2014/12/29/rebutting-burhan-gafoor-part-2/">Rebutting Burhan Gafoor – Part 2</a><br />
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<a href="https://trulysingapore.wordpress.com/2014/12/31/rebutting-burhan-gafoor-part-3/">Part 3</a><br />
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<a href="https://trulysingapore.wordpress.com/2015/01/15/rebutting-burhan-gafoor-part-6/">Part 6</a><br />
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<a href="https://trulysingapore.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/rebutting-burhan-gafoor-part-7/">Part 7</a><br />
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<a href="https://minimyna.wordpress.com/2015/01/17/weapon-of-the-powerful-wondering-about-the-response-to-poh-soo-kai-singapores-battle-for-merger-revisited-the-poverty-of-its-history/">Weapon of the powerful? Wondering about The Response to Poh Soo Kai, “Singapore’s ‘Battle for Merger’ revisited: the poverty of its history”</a> <br />
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MInghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00812324746322990767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9272856.post-58717723201674829812015-01-23T08:10:00.001+08:002015-01-23T22:52:57.357+08:00PAP's Governance is akin to Mafia Rule : JB Jeyaretnam (1999)Make lt Right For Singapore<br />
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At the sitting of Parliament on the 24 Nov 1999, I spoke by way of a motion on the RULE of LAW. The government pays lip service to the rule.</div>
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Yet we have on our statute books the most flagrant violation of the RULE - empowering the government to imprison a subject without first prosecuting him in a court of law — allowing the court to decide whether the subject should be imprisoned for an offence known to the law. This is not the only instance of the violation of the RULE.</div>
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In 1987 a delegation from the New York Bar came to make a study on how far the RULE obtained in Singapore. The government had detained 22 persons on suspicion of being a danger to the security of Singapore. The delegation in its report said the RULE had been reduced to mere symbolism.</div>
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There can be no democracy in a country where the RULE of LAW does not obtain — where the Ministers and law enforcement officers do not act under law. As I said in my speech such conduct is more akin to mafia rule rather than the RULE of LAW. Democracy if it means anything means that citizens live their lives under the certainty that they can only be punished for a breach of the law found against them by a court of law. Democracy also demands that everyone should be equal before the law. The Prime Minister of</div>
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The Ministers appear to confuse the RULE of LAW as meaning RULE BY LAW. RULE BY LAW may validate the Internal Security Act because it has been passed by Parliament but the Act violates the requirement of natural justice - a vital component of LAW even though‘ unwritten. Natural justice was part of the common law which was imported into Singapore in the middle of the last century under the Charter given to the East India company. A dictator governs by decree which serves as LAW in the country and consequently validates the exercise of arbitrary power which has no place in a truly democratic society.<br />
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So law is not just the Acts passed by Parliament but the fundamental rules of natural justice that have been accepted and become part, and parcel of the common law and which, as they say, and which I have been saying, was the law in Singapore in operation before that. I was talking about the misconception in the minds of our Ministers. And it comes to my mind that sometime in the 1980s when l was in this House, there was a debate on the Internal Security Act. I said then that the provisions in the Act providing for detention of persons under an order of the Minister was a blatant negation of the Rule of Law. I said there was no question about it, because it blatantly disregarded the fundamental rules of natural justice. The then Minister for Home Affairs, Mr Chua Sian Chin, in replying asked: ‘'15 the Member trying to say that the lnternal Security Act is not law‘? lt was not passed properly"'There you have the misconception.</div>
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Even an Act of Parliament can violate the Rule of Law. It can violate the Constitution and that is specially provided by the Constitution which says that any Act which is inconsistent or contrary to the Articles of the Constitution shall to that extent be void. And further by Article 162, it enjoins the Government and the courts to modify, alter and interpret Articles in any law so as to comply with the Articles in the Constitution, if that law seems to conflict with anything in the Constitution. So it is no answer to say, "Oh, we have the law, and that is it”. The question is whether the law itself violates the Rule ofLaw as understood through the centuries. That is the main question»</div>
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I think I have said enough to try to define what we are talking about when we say the Ruie of Law is supreme and what is meant by the Rule of Law. I must now proceed without any further delay - I see time is running on — to list what I see to be the instances or examples of the violation of this fundamental principle of the Rule of Law in Singapore.</div>
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Mr Speaker, Sir, after i have listed them, I shall proceed to set out what I think the Government should do immediately, and then return back to this list of violations to try and explain how they vioiate the Rule of Law. The first on my iist of the examples of vioiation of the Ruie of Law is course, as has been asserted by us many a time, the arrest and detention of persons without trial purely on the arbitrary power invested, by Pariiament albeit, on the Minister. A person in Singapore can be detained without trial under the internal Security Act, under the Criminal Law (Temporary Provisions) Act and also under the Misuse of Drugs Act, although some justification may be found for the detention under the Misuse of Drugs Act.</div>
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The second is the arrest by police officers and other law enforcement officers without informing the subject of the charge. it is absolutely important under the Rule of Law that a person's liberty should not be deprived. He should not be deprived of his liberty, or in any way restrained unless he is first told of the law under which that can be done, and why it should be done. Also incidental to this is the searches - search of a person‘s house carried out by the poiice and other law enforcement agencies. There again a citizen is entitled toinsist that any search of his house be strictly in accordance with the law.</div>
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Fourthly, there is the denial of bail by the courts without adequate reasons. I am referring to the often heard request from police officers prosecuting to ask for a remand in Police custody when the accused is first produced in court. As I said once before, usually that request is granted without any inquiry, and l shall explain why it violates the Rule of Law. </div>
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Then the one which we the Opposition have often raised — it is the fifth one — the denial of the freedom of speech and assembly. That violates the Rule of Law. And when I say about freedom of speech and assembly, of course, I am also referring to the freedom of the newspapers to publish — the freedom of the press. That is part and parcel of the freedom of speech. Sixthly, denial of reasons for executive decisions and shutting out appeals to the courts. As l shall say, now in almost every Act. one finds this denial of reasons for decisions and not allowing any recourse to the courts. Seventhly. the restrictions on the right to travel out of Singapore, the impounding of passports without an order of court. When I come to illustrate, I shall, of course, refer to the case of Mdm Teo Siew Har whose passport was detained for several months for no reason at all under the law.</div>
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Then we have the eighth on the list - the power given to the Housing and Development Board to throw out lesees or tenants without having to take them to court. That is, if ever there was one, clear violation the person's rights and the Rule of Law. Then we also have have the suspension and cancellation of people's licences by executive officials, and l have in mind, of course, the licences of taxi drivers, without a proper judiciary enquiry.</div>
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So you have in Singapore an abundance of power exercised by the executive through its officials which offend the Rule of Law. That is the first limb - that no one shall be deprived of anything, except under the law. Now, if I may come to the second limb, the equality of all persons under the law, and as Prof Dicey says - from the the Prime Minister down to the constable they are equal before the law. The Prime Minister is not more equal than a postman or a collector of rubbish. </div>
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And under this, I have about four heads, and that is, the blatant violations during election time by Government and Ministers to secure the victory of their party the ruling party, including intimidation of voters. There you have clearly the law not evenly applied as between one Party and another.</div>
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It is like not seeing the wood but just simply seeing one or two trees there. But if you want to commend the Government for upholding the Rule of Law you have got to answer a number of questions and ask whether the Rule of Law has been observed in the situations that are being looked at.</div>
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Prof. Chin again raises. what was already said by Mr Simon Tay, that the laws are properly enacted, passed by Parliament and subsidiary legislation is made under the authority ofthe parent legislation. We all know that. But the point is, as the Privy Council pointed out in the judgment of Ong Ah Chuan that even an Act of Parliament may violate the Rule of Law if it is completely contrary to the rules of natural justice. Of course, Parliament, which is controlled almost entirely by Members of the Government party, can pass any law according to the Constitution.</div>
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Having more than a two-thirds majority the Constitution can be amended at any time. That is why it is absolutely essential in any democratic society that the ruling party should never have more than a two-thirds majority if the country is to have a stable democratic government. It follows without any explanation. Otherwise, it becomes a tyranny, a tyranny by the Party which controls Parliament. as we know the situation in Singapore.</div>
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From 1966 to l98l. it was an entirely PAP Parliament. There was no one from any other party in Parliament. So it was one party passing laws, yes. strictly following the Constitution, the procedure - but ignoring the fundamental rules of natural justice and claiming that they were abiding by the Rule of Law when they passed/any Bill. That it had been passed in accordance with the Constitution. That is not compliance with the Rule of Law as the Privy Council tried to point out.</div>
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After l98l. Parliament continued with a majority of PAP Members And this is the great drawback in Singapore and the one on which the PAP has capitalised. and that is. they go to any length to keep out any Opposition building up in Singapore. That in itself to me, is a flagrant violation of the Rule of Law. I will illustrate what l mean by making references to how elections are conducted.</div>
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responsibility of an independent body that is, the Elections Commission. Do we have an Elections Commission in Singapore? The Opposition parties, I remember. asked for it in the l970s. Have we got an Elections Commission? No. The elections are run as though it was a matter for the Government. and Government alone. It is run on the decree of the Prime Minister in whose Ministry the Elections Department is put.</div>
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So. where is the Rule of Law there to ensure equality to all parties to contest the elections’? Straightaway, you have a fundamental breach of the Rule of Law, when you. on your own. decide to re-draw boundaries just because an Oppoition Party has gained a foothold in one constituency. You decide you will bring it into a GRC, put it with other constituencies. This is done ad nauseam to ensure that the Opposition is kept out of Parliament. So, that is a glaring instance of a violation of the Rule of Law.</div>
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And then when it comes to the actual conduct of the elections, I am surprised that no attempt is made to try to answer what I have said in myspeech. I mentioned about the conduct of the Government Ministers during an election campaign. Have Members here forgotten how the Government won the constituency of Cheng San‘? The Parliamentary Elections Act has a provision which says that any elections won by intimidation or bribery of voters is illegal and can be set aside on an election petition.</div>
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What took place on lst January I997? The Prime Minister came to Cheng San, held a rally and he had only about 2,000 people in front of him and what did he he say? Did he say. "You vote for the PAP. we are a better party. the Worrkers’ Party cannot be trusted?" That is all in the rules. What did he say to the voters? Please look it up. It was next day headlined in the Straits Times I will come to that. That was another violation of the Rule of Law. In the front page it said "PM to voters" -all or nothing". You vote for the Workers’ Party, you would not get anything. Even what you have in the way of any benefits will be taken away from you. But if you vote for us, you will have what you have got and you are going to get more. But if you vote for the Workers’ Party upgrading will cease, you may not get your MRT, trains will not stop here, you would not get your LRT, you would not get your new town, your children may not get good places in schools. lf that is not intimidation, I would like to know what is intimidation.</div>
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That was his threat, all or nothing. We referred this matter for an opinion to a Queen's Counsel in London and he said it was clearly an intimidation and in breach of the section under the Parliamentary Elections Act. PM told the voters that if they did not vote for the PAP, they were going to lose everything. But that is not all. On election day, when the law is that no one. other than the voters, the candidate and his agent, will be allowed into the polling centre, we had the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Ministers driving in, shaking hands with voters queuing up to vote, and going beyond that into the area where they were casting their votes, watching over them. That seemed to us to be a clear breach of the Parliamentary Elections Act which says that no one. other than the voters, the candidate and his agent will be allowed, besides of course the election officials and the police officers to keep order. If that is not a violation of the Rule of Law, what is it then?</div>
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May I also refer to the publication by the papers. The Straits Times carried it on their front page. I have no doubt that the Chinese newspapers also carried the same message on their front page. The New Paper thought that it would go better. It tabulated. for the benefit of the readers, what they would get and what they would not get, depending on their choice. Vote for the Workers’ Party. you would not get this, you would not get that, etc. The Parliamentary Elections Act says that on polling day itself. there shall be no campaigning, there shall be no intimidation. there shall be no forcing of voters and yet, the papers blatantly carried all these on polling day. Was any action taken against the papers? Is that a violation of the Rule of Law or not? And yet, we are asked to commend the Government for upholding the Rule of Law and ensuring that it is fully observed by all. I selected the elections because that is the starting point. the main foundation for ensuring that there is a democracy — a properly elected government ruling the country, a government elected by the people with complete freedom to chose their representatives without any fear, without</div>
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Did the Cheng San voters have that freedom? Will you please try and answer that? You have the Prime Minister, not the PAP official. You have the Prime Minister because he was already Prime Minister on nomination day. There was no question that he would be the Prime Minister. He went there and he said this. So what freedom ofc hoice did the Cheng San voters have? Let us be honest and ask this question. Here is the Prime Minister telling you, "I am going to withdraw everything from you." What is more. he told them. "If you vote for us you’ll have a hot line to me. You'll have a hot line to the two Deputy Prime Ministers." l have been telling some of the Cheng San voters, "Why did you not ring up the Prime Minister?‘</div>
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The detention under the lnternal Security Act is not answered simply by saying that we may need it. It is justified. The question you have to answer is does it or does it not violate the Rule of Law? The rule, as I said, was propounded in the l3th century when the Barons said. "No one will be deprived of his liberty except by a lawful judgment of the court." is it or is it not a violation of the Rule Of Law." It is no answer to argue that it is necessary because you want to keep Singapore safe. If you want to keep Singapore safe. then shoot all criminals. Then perhaps people may not take to crime. Have summary trials. summary justice and then Singapore may be safe. But is that what we want in Singapore‘?</div>
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So we must look at the picture as a whole. Does detention without trial violate the Rule of Law‘? Do not just say that it keeps Singapore safe. we will not have any trouble if we keep the ISA. Let us be honest and say. "No. in Singapore. we do not uphold the Rule of Law. We don’t think the Rule of Law really is necessary for our society because we want to keep Singapore safe. So we are going to give our Ministers arbitrary power to keep Singapore safe." Then, at least, the world will know that we are being honest, that we are not interested in the Rule of Law. We have our own way doing things. But if you keep saying that we observe the Rule of Law. then you have got to ask the question, do we? And if you examine the record of this Government, certainly from 1965 onwards, you will find that this is a Government which, through its Ministers. through its civil servants. especially the law enforcement agencies violate the Rule of Law. l have mentioned the instances.</div>
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The way Police investigations are carried out violates the Rule of Law, not informing arrested persons of their right, denying them counsel once they are taken into custody for up to three weeks violates the Rule of Law. Yes, you can, of course, say it is necessary. Our police have to investigate. Our police have to stamp out crime. So we have got to give them these powers. Let us say we do not want the Rule of Law. For us, it is more important that ourofficers have the power to get criminals out of the society and, similarly, with other powers of the police.</div>
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The amendment ignores the realities in Singapore. It does not look at the situation in Singapore but seeks approval or approbation because ‘Singapore is such a good place‘. Everyone is happy. That is questionable. But it ignores the realities. We have the results. The means do not matter. But means are important. It is the means which will justify the end. not the end that justifies the means.</div>
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The other constant theme of Mr Simon Tay and even Prof. Chin is, "Go to the courts. go to the courts." But that is to miss the whole point of the argument. Does Mr Simon Tay know that with the amendment to the Internal Security Act. the courts are now precluded from inquiring into the merits of the detention‘?</div>
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Mr Jeyaretnam: Do that afterwards. This happened after the Court of Appeal in 1989 decided it would no longer follow its past.</div>
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MInghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00812324746322990767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9272856.post-12265271751240157102015-01-16T21:17:00.000+08:002015-01-16T21:17:31.579+08:00Video : Former ISA detainees describe prison conditions<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/zSOBz1gZJbs" width="420"></iframe>
Two former political prisoners, Tan Jing Quee and Michael Fernandez, recall their experiences of detention without trial under the ISA. Held in 2006 at the Esplanade, the talk marked the first time in post-independence Singapore that ISA detainees spoke in public about their detention.
Tan Jing Quee passed away in 2011.
MInghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00812324746322990767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9272856.post-86682046583196845192014-10-23T14:37:00.001+08:002015-06-24T07:39:30.942+08:00"A life without idealism & convictions is a mere meaningless existence"<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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“Now some of you may have heard that when you are young you are idealistic, when you're old you are realistic. Now this is the kind of rubbish that is used by those who have either lost their ideals or have sold their ideals for self-interests. Age should not wither one's ideals or convictions. </blockquote>
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If anything, it should only consolidate and make it more resolute. If age has anything to do with it, it is only by way of expression and application of these ideals and convictions having the benefit of a youthful experience. And a life without convictions, without idealism, is a mere meaningless existence, and I'm sure most of you will agree that as human beings, we are worthy of a life much more meaningful than just that.” </blockquote>
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<i>- Dr Lim Hock Siew at the launch of Fajar Generation on 14 Nov 2009.</i></blockquote>
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Dr Lim Hock Siew was a friend of former prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew. A brilliant orator, talented artist and true socialist, he was about 9 years younger than Lee. He helped Lee found the PAP in 1954 and assisted in the drafting of the constitution for the party. In 1961, Lee did not renew his membership with the party. Together with others who had been either expelled from the party or left because of ideological differences, Dr Lim founded the Barisan Sosialis.<br />
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On 2 Feb 1963, just a few months before the general election, Dr Lim together with almost the entire central executive committee of the Barisan were arrested under the ISA. Codenamed Operation Coldstore, a total of not less than 133 people were arrested and imprisoned for an inordinate period of time, many exceeding 10 years. At the time of arrest, Dr Lim’s son was only five months old. An idealist and a principled man, Dr Lim remained in prison for 20 years. He refused to give Lee the satisfaction of any signed statement. Lee himself could have released Dr Lim at any time by imposing conditions for his release without having to obtain his signature. He did not do so and I can only conclude that it was fear that Dr Lim could revive opposition politics in Singapore that would endanger the survival of the PAP that caused Lee to exert such cruelty on his erstwhile friend who had contributed hugely to his party.<br />
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<a href="https://youtu.be/P-RU0ISDrKI">Dr Lim Hock Siew (Banned in Singapore)</a><a href="http://youtu.be/Zk-TH257ggI">Ex-ISA detainee issues challenge to Dr Tony Tan</a><br />
<a href="http://singaporerebel.blogspot.sg/2012/06/dr-lim-hock-siew-singaporean-patriot.html">Dr Lim Hock Siew : A Singaporean Patriot</a><br />
<a href="http://singaporerebel.blogspot.sg/2012/06/tributes-to-dr-lim-hock-siew.html">Tributes to Dr Lim Hock Siew</a><br />
<a href="http://singaporerebel.blogspot.sg/2009/09/new-pap-book-neglects-founding-members.html?m=1">Dr Lim Hock Siew Speaks from Singapore Prison (Date - 18.3.1972)</a><br />
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<a href="http://singaporerebel.blogspot.sg/2014/08/posters-lim-hock-siew.html">Posters : Lim Hock Siew</a></div>
MInghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00812324746322990767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9272856.post-90355874442105726982014-10-23T14:17:00.002+08:002014-10-23T14:26:28.027+08:00"Mr President, I urge you to seek the truth about Operation Coldstore and Battle for Merger" <div>
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<b>Mr President, I urge you to seek the truth about Operation Coldstore and Battle for Merger during your State visit in the UK</b><br />
The President (tony_tan@istana.gov.sg)<br />
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Dear President,<br />
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Early this year, I responded to your challenge issued during the 2011 Presidential Election TOC TV Forum that "one must be able to back up" "the very serious charge" that "the Internal Security Act had been used for political purposes".<br />
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In my response <a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/tan-jee-say/operation-coldstore-with-the-evidence-before-you-can-you-look-the-other-way-mr-p/592765967469349">[link]</a>, I referred to recently declassified British Government documents relating to Operation Coldstore which revealed that Lord Selkirk, the UK Commissioner to Singapore at that time, reported to Duncan Sandys, secretary of state for the colonies, that <b>'there is no important new evidence of subversive activity on which arrests at this juncture can be justified. We could not substantiate a charge that they are planning to use violence. In the absence of specific evidence of subversion the arrests would be construed as an attempt by HMG to stifle legitimate opposition.' </b>(Geoff Wade)<br />
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As I have produced before you the evidence that you asked for, Singaporeans expected you to follow up on it. More than 8 months have passed, but you have neither replied my letter nor shown any interest or follow-up action to verify the evidence. Perhaps the declassified papers were too far away from Singapore but now that you are in London on a State visit, physical distance is not an issue. The documents are kept at the British National Archives in Kew, London which is about 8 miles or a short drive of 15-20 minutes, from Buckingham Palace where you are currently staying. You can of course spend as much time as you want to go through the papers and satisfy yourself of their authenticity and accuracy. If this short journey or research work is too arduous for you to undertake, you can always request Her Majesty's Government to arrange for their intelligence officers to brief you. I am sure the HMG as gracious host, will be happy to oblige.<br />
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Your independent verification of the evidence is particularly important at this juncture in view of 2 recent events :<br />
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1. In disallowing the film "To Singapore, With Love" from public screening or distribution in Singapore, a documentary about political exiles who fled from Singapore, the Government has alleged that it contains "untruths and deceptions", designed to "whitewash their past actions" as " Communist Party of Malaya members and Communist United Front sympathisers" and<br />
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2. The Government has launched a reprint of Mr Lee Kuan Yew's radio broadcasts on The Battle For Merger of 1961 " 'to provide a reality check' to attempts by some historians to recast the role played by communists and their supporters on the issue" (Straits Times, 10 Oct 2014).<br />
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Singaporean historian Dr Thum Pingtjin, a Rhodes Scholar and Commonwealth Scholar educated at both Oxford and Harvard, has written about events leading to the battle for Merger in ARI Working Paper No. 211 'The Fundamental Issue is Anti-colonialism, Not Merger': Singapore's "Progressive Left", Operation Coldstore, and the Creation of Malaysia.<br />
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Citing the declassified British Government documents, he made the following points :<br />
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1." ....Lee engineered a 'Hobson's choice' (in the Merger Referendum) : he ensured that all alternatives to the PAP option were repugnant, leaving the public with no real choice. The British called this 'a dishonest manoeuvre' and the Tunku 'a dirty game' ....", </blockquote>
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2. "... Under Lee's direction, Singapore Special Branch produced a paper describing an extensive communist conspiracy in Singapore, directed from the underground by the CPM and led in the open by Barisan politicians as part of a Communist "United Front". The Security Liaison Officer (SLO), Maurice Williams, tore apart the paper, noting numerous major deficiencies. Firstly, ' ín spite of intensive investigations, no evidence has been obtained' of a conspiracy, and that the paper's conclusions were entirely 'surmise'. Secondly, sharing the goal of Singapore's independence with the Communists did not make someone a Communist sympathiser. Thirdly, it was ínconceivable that Secret Branch investigations would have failed to yield any evidence of such control and direction' of a conspiracy of such massive breadth and scale. "Finally, the label Communist "United Front" was so broadly applied that it referred to anyone unhappy with the government. Thus, he concluded, 'The developments since August 1961 outlined in the paper do NOT support this conclusion' stated in the Special Branch paper, and strongly advised against repression.<br />
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"Unable to proceed with arrests, the Federation and Singapore governments sought to provoke the Barisan into unconstitutional action on their own. A campaign of harassment against newspapers, publications, trade unions, and opposition politicians commenced.<br />
"Meanwhile, Lee sought to go over Selkirk and appeal directly to his superiors in London. But when he met British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in May 1962, Lee was forced to admit under close questioning that the Barisan leaders were merely 'stooges' and not leading Communists, and that the trade unions were no more communist than the Electrical Trades Union in Britain - i.e., not controlled by communists and functioning chiefly as a left-wing pressure group.111 .........."</blockquote>
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Dr Thum's research paper, dated November 2013, can be accessed by clicking over this<a href="https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dropbox.com%2Fs%2Fa90gc1xq0kazmh3%2FThum%2520Pingtjin%2520research%2520article%2520-%2520Anti-Colonialism%252C%2520not%2520Merger%2520%25281%2529%2520%25281%2529.pdf%3Fdl%3D0&h=HAQHhrw9D&s=1">[link]</a>.<br />
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Mr President, the Government is now disputing the accounts of historians even though they quoted, from official British Government documents, the professional judgement of British Special Branch officers that those arrested were not communists or communist united front sympathisers but merely leftwing politicians and trade unionists opposed to the PAP. It is important that this fundamental matter be resolved as we prepare to celebrate the 50th anniversary of our independence.<br />
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Mr President Sir, I urge you to get to the bottom of this issue, to seek and establish the truth by checking it out at the British National Archives in Kew, London during your present State visit in the United Kingdom. You owe it to the people of Singapore to do so particularly when you asked for evidence to prove that the ISA had been used for political purposes.<br />
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Yours sincerely,<br />
Tan Jee Say<br />
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A police investigation is not something that most civil activists would look forward to. It is an annoyance and an intrusion. But given the State's liberal enforcement of our many illiberal laws, such a prospect can never be totally discounted.<br />
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In the wake of the police interrogation of Han Hui Hui, former lawyer and ISA detainee Teo Soh Lung had written a <a href="http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2014/10/what-to-do-if-you-are-hauled-up-for-police-interview/">brief guide </a>on what to do when one is summoned for police investigation.<br />
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Her views are further expanded here by other human rights advocates and filmmakers who had spent hours on the interrogatee's chair. Some were eventually prosecuted, others were not. Their experiences and advices offer snapshots on the extent of police powers in Singapore, and some methods by which activists can use to overcome their fear of isolation and prosecution.
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Seelan Palay</span></b><br />
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<b>Years active:</b> From 2004 to present<br />
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<b>How many police interrogations have you undergone?</b> I believe 7-10<br />
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<b>What were the nature of the investigations?</b> Flyer distribution, assembly without permit, screening of political film<br />
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<b>How did the police serve the notices?</b> Hand delivered to my house<br />
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<b>Total number of hours under interrogation?</b> Each time is about an hour.<br />
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<b>Have you ever been formally charged?</b> Yes<br />
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<b>How much fine did you pay?</b> I did not pay the fine<br />
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<b>How many days of prison time did you undergo?</b> 12 days<br />
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Every single time they arrest and charge us for "illegal assembly and/or procession", especially the way they surrounded and forcefully arrested us during our Tak Boleh Tahan march from Parliament House.<br />
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I answered almost every question by citing that I was only excercising my constitutional rights to freedom of speech and assembly. I believe this is a good way to answer and remind people/authorities about those rights, and to avoid any incrimination through the questions that the police ask you. </div>
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<b>Describe your role in civil society:</b> Not sure what to write here</div>
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<b>Years active:</b> from end 2006 to present<br />
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<b>How many police interrogations have you undergone? </b><br />
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- 10 Dec 2006 Human Rights Day Walk,<br />
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- 9 August 2008 TBT National Day<br />
- 12 Jan 2009 MOM Protest (arrested)<br />
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<b>What were the nature of the investigations? </b>Arrested twice. Questioned for participation in assembly or procession without permit for four times and once for “criminal trespassing”.<br />
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<b>How did the police serve the notices? </b>By registered mail and by coming to my doorstep.<br />
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<b>Total number of hours under interrogation? </b>1 to 1.5 hours each time.<br />
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<b>Have you ever been formally charged?</b> Yes, thrice.<br />
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<b>How much fine did you pay? </b>Approximately $3500<br />
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<b>How many days of prison time did you undergo?</b> None<br />
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<b><br /></b>Arrested outside MOM for “criminal trespassing” even though I was standing on public pavement, shared with loads of pedestrians; obstruction of procession and forcible removal of placards during arrest (TBT protest) without proper reason given.<br />
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- Keep calm and firm and don't let anyone goad or guilt trip you. Know you have done nothing wrong and it is the police that has to justify their actions.<br />
- Do not volunteer information for whatever reason. It will likely be used against you or your peers in court.<br />
- Do not make self-incriminating statements, or statements implicating others.<br />
- Refuse to answer where possible.<br />
- Check through the printout of the recorded statement given by the investigation officer. Make sure your words have been accurately recorded.<br />
- Ask for a copy of the statement; if the police refuses to hand you one, manually copy the questions and answers down.</div>
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<b>How many police interrogations have you undergone? </b>3 interviews <br />
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<b>What were the nature of the investigations? </b>Illegal Assembly without permit, illegal procession, attempted procession <br />
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<b>How did the police serve the notices? </b>Letter by hand </div>
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<b>Total number of hours under interrogation? </b>30 minutes to 1 hour<br />
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<b>Have you ever been formally charged? </b>Yes, 1 charge <br />
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<b>How much fine did you pay?</b> $1000 <br />
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<b>How many days of prison time did you undergo?</b> None<br />
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<b>Describe your role in civil society:</b> I work on human rights issues and in recent years, I have been focusing on the campaign against the death penalty. I have also worked on issues pertaining to G8, (conducted a protest outside the Japanese embassy in 2008), ISA, Burma, freedom of speech and assembly, the atrocities in Sri Lankan, LGBT rights (as an ally), among others.</div>
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<b>Years active:</b> From 2008 to now.<br />
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<b>How many police interrogations have you undergone?</b> 2<br />
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Disributing flyers outside Liat Towers (on the case of Yong Vui Kong) and selling Once a Jolly Hangman during Freedom Film Festival at the Substation.</div>
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For the first case, they sent the notice to me thrice - personally, by registered post, and via normal post. In the second case, the Investigating Officer (IO) came personally to my flat and served it to me in person - at about 7.15am in the morning.<br />
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<b>Total number of hours under interrogation?</b> First case - about an hour; second case - close to 2 hours.<br />
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<b>Have you ever been formally charged?</b> No.<br />
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I was told by the IO in the first investigation, "I am the one doing the questioning" when I repeatedly asked him why he was asking me certain questions which I felt were irrelevant. This might not be out of line, as he did try to maintain his cool but I just wanted to put this down anyway.<br />
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Before investigation - read up on the particular act that you are investigated under, and identify which clauses you have violated, and which ones actually protect you. If you can, bring a copy of the act along for reference in case you need to challenge the IO. Always inform fellow activists that you will be investigated, and if possible, do not go alone. Also, if the stipulated date and time of the investigation is inconvenient for you, feel free to change it. <br />
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During the questioning - ask the IO if you will be able to get a copy of your signed statement, and if the answer is no, establish an agreement to take down notes of the questions and answers. If they aren't rude, be nice about it, but maintain the stand that you must have some sort of a record for your personal reference. During the questioning, keep your answers short and clear. If the questions are irrelevant, just say so. Just be frank, and don't need to lie, and be confident about your answers. Get out of it as soon as you can, and do bring a jacket if you are at Cantonment Police Complex.</div>
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<b>Describe your role in civil society:</b> Documentary filmmaker, blogger</div>
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<b>Years active:</b> From 2005 </div>
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<b>How many police interrogations have you undergone?</b> 6 interrogations<br />
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Making of a political film 'Singapore Rebel' and organising a private indoor human rights forum featuring foreign MPs<br />
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<b>How did the police serve the notices?</b> Mostly by calls to my mobile phone, and once via registered mail.<br />
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<b>Total number of hours under interrogation?</b> About 11 hours over 6 sessions.<br />
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<b>Have you ever been formally charged?</b> No.<br />
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During the 'Singapore Rebel' investigations, my video camera was confiscated, but at no point did I surrender my mobile phone, so it came as a shock when friends informed me that they were called up by the police to attend questioning over my case. </div>
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<b>Years active:</b> from 2011 to 214<br />
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<b>How many police interrogations have you undergone? </b>1<br />
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<b>What were the nature of the investigations? </b>Accused of sedition<br />
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<b>How did the police serve the notices? </b>No notice. Direct arrest and detained for around 44 hours before bail is allowed. Then forbidden to travel out of the country for 3 months while they take their own sweet time to decide that they have no ground to charge me for sedition.<br />
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<b>Total number of hours under interrogation?</b> Over 30 hours.<br />
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<b>Have you ever been formally charged?</b> Not for sedition.<br />
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Seizing all the computers and data storage devices in my parents' home including my elderly father's work computer "for investigation".<br />
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<b><br /></b>1. The police are not your friends.<br />
2. Smile, keep clam and be friendly, but do not trust them one bit. No matter how friendly they pretend to be, they are not your friends.<br />
3. Keep your answers short and sweet.<br />
4. Do not volunteer any information. I repeat, they are not your friends.<br />
5. Anything you say, even innocently, can and will be used against you. Once again, they are not your friends.<br />
6. There is no coffee at Cantonment.<br />
7. On the bright side, if arrested, it is a good opportunity to get any medical conditions you have treated for free.</div>
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<b>How many police interrogations have you undergone?</b> Two<br />
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<b>What were the nature of the investigations?</b> The Internal Affairs Officer (IAO) said they were investigating allegations of police brutality made by 2 SMRT bus drivers. I had interviewed the drivers and posted segments of the interviews online. <br />
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<b>How did the police serve the notices?</b> They came to my house. They also asked to confiscate my harddrive, computer, laptop and mobile phone.<br />
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<b>Total number of hours under interrogation?</b> 2 hours + 9 hours (parts of the second interview involved police taking apart my laptop and examining data in it; they also examined my mobile phone). <br />
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The AGC sent me a letter informing me that they had decided not to prosecute me, despite finding that I was in contempt of court. I had no idea when I was being questioned, that the IAO was investigating me for contempt. I had always thought they were investigating the SMRT drivers' allegations of police brutality. <br />
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The IAO said they were investigating the SMRT drivers' allegations of abuse. But they kept asking me lots of irrelevant questions about whether I championed any "causes". The police superintendent sent to confiscate my laptop and mobile phone was not from the IAO (which is supposed to work independently), but from Bedok branch. When I asked him to justify why it was necessary to take my things, he said I should just let them "seize first" and lodge a complaint later! <br />
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Take notes. Write down all questions and answers. Write down the name and rank of the people questioning you. Bring a sweater, wear comfortable shoes and bring your own water. If you wear contact lenses, bring eyedrops and your glasses. I realised when I was being interviewed, that my eyes felt really dry after six or seven hours. Give short, truthful answers. Don't ramble. Take your time. If you feel that a question is irrelevant, say so and decline to answer. If you can't remember, say you can't remember. Read and re-read your statement before signing it. Don't be afraid to ask for amendments if something is wrong. Be polite but assertive. And finally, make sure some one you trust outside is monitoring the situation.</div>
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I did what needed to be done. I did not sign up with a volunteer corp of sorts so there was not any "assigned" roles but I was with sghumanrights, Free Burma Campaign Sg, SADPC and other occasional group actions.<br />
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<b>How many police interrogations have you undergone?</b> There are too many for me to recall at this moment.<br />
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To "assist investigation" on events like: giving out flyers in public to raise awareness on issues, being in candlelight vigils, wearing a tshirt with a certain design, peaceful protest following the announcement to increase public transport and costs of utilities that would take place simultaneous with the increased salaries of the ministries. <br />
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<b>How did the police serve the notices? </b>Once by hand, at night. Others by mail, occasionally coupled with phone calls. <br />
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<b>Total number of hours under interrogation? </b>I cannot recall the exact number at the moment.<br />
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<b>Have you ever been formally charged?</b> Yes.<br />
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<b>How much fine did you pay? </b>I was billed $1,600 in one case. In another, it was $5,000. In the latter, it was technically defined as pay costs to the AGC (Attorney-General's Chambers) and not as fine.<br />
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<b>How many days of prison time did you undergo?</b> 7 days.<br />
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<b>Cite one aspect of your experience in which you feel the authorities were out-of-line?</b><br />
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To agree or disagree is entirely human. To express sentiments peacefully is naturally human too, and these were most often made out of genuine concern. Getting into legal trouble for doing so is not characteristic of a society that proclaims to be democratic. <br />
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<b>What's your advice for activists undergoing police probe for their work?</b><br />
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1. Read the Constitution to understand your legal rights and the legal technicalities relevant to your situation. You would be surprised that most officers do not have knowledge about the Constitution.<br />
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2. Be firm but civil and courteous in interactions with the police. Be respectful (as you ought to fellow human beings) but firmly state your rights. Know what you stand for and remind the officer that you are not a criminal. However, if the officer is outright rude or threatening despite you being respectful, do not hesitate to lodge a complain. <br />
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3. Keep a record of what was said during the investigation. Bring a pen and paper to take down notes. You will be asked to counter-check and sign against your statement as typed in by the officer but the copy will not be given to you. Therefore, the notes you take down will be your own copy. <br />
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4. If you are being monitored and followed, try to verify and confirm that you are indeed being followed. If so, take pictures of the culprit as record. Inform others around you. Monitor and follow the culprit. <br />
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5. As in everything, always remember to pause and reflect. To fight systemic injustice is only half the battle, to grow as a better person is the other half. Always be motivated by love because it nourishes no matter what you have to go through. In this way, you win even when you lose. Never succumb to hate because it is blinding. The greatest tragedy is to embody the injustice you set out to stop. <br />
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<b>Describe your role in civil society:</b> Civil activist, and now a member of SDP</div>
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<b>Years active:</b> From 2007<br />
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<b>How many police interrogations have you undergone?</b> 3 or 4 (can't remember)<br />
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<b>What were the nature of the investigations?</b> Illegal assembly, protest<br />
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<b>How did the police serve the notices? </b></div>
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First notice was served at almost 10pm when two male officers banged on my door very loudly. I reprimanded them and later lodged a formal complaint with the Investigating Officer (IO). Subsequently, letters were discreetly thrown into my house even though my door was open and I was at home at that time. After I did not respond to these notices, they were delivered via registered mail. </div>
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<b>Total number of hours under interrogation?</b> Not more than 2 hours each time.<br />
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<b>Have you ever been formally charged?</b> Yes, twice.<br />
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<b>How much fine did you pay? </b></div>
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First charge was $900 for each offence - total $1,800 (for illegal assembly and protest). Second charge was $600 (for illegal assembly).</div>
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<b>How many days of prison time did you undergo?</b> None<br />
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<b>Cite one aspect of your experience in which you feel the authorities were out-of-line? </b></div>
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During the interview at the Bukit Merah Neighbourhood Police Post, I had wanted to write down the questions but the IO said that would take up too much time. So he suggested that he would allow me the time to write only after I had answer the questions. But after the interview was over, he refused to let me do so.<br />
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MInghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00812324746322990767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9272856.post-86267558164637652372014-10-14T20:26:00.000+08:002014-11-14T15:50:07.543+08:00National security bogeyman used to disallow film"The contents of the film undermine national security because legitimate actions of the security agencies to protect the national security and stability of Singapore are presented in a distorted way as acts that victimised innocent individuals"<br />
- MDA, Sept 10<br />
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"People who were communist or sympathisers or activists.. Why should we allow them, through a movie, to present an account of themselves.. Which will sully the honour and the reputation of the security people, and the brave men and women who fought the communist, all those many years."<br />
- PM Lee Hsien Loong, Oct 3, 2014<br />
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"Many of the individuals featured in the film were former armed communist guerillas. Unlike a book, a film can more easily arouse emotional responses and reach a wider audience. To allow public screening.. would be like allowing jihadi terrorist groups today to produce and publicly screen films that glorify their jihadist cause."<br />
- Yap Neng Jye, Press Secretary to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs, Oct 14, 2014<br />
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Here's why the Government's official reason for the NAR rating of Tan Pin Pin's 'To Singapore With Love' is utter bollocks, or at best, a red herring.<br />
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In 2006, MDA passed a film (rated PG) made by 5 Singaporean researchers and filmmakers entitled 'I Love Malaya'. While the premise of the documentary centres on the debate in Malaysia regarding Chin Peng's application to return to his hometown, much of the film's 45 minutes captures the lives and interviews of communist exiles in the Betong Peace Villages of Southern Thailand, the same place where Tan Pin Pin interviewed her subjects.<br />
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Watch Al Jazeera's report of 'I Love Malaya' here.<br />
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You can order the DVD here<br />
<a href="http://www.objectifsfilms.com/product.php?id_product=17">http://www.objectifsfilms.com/product.php?id_product=17</a><br />
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In the same year, Malaysian director Amir Muhammad's film 'The Last Communist', which also features extensive interviews of exiles in Betong, was rated PG by MDA and given a commercial run in Cathay cinemas.<br />
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<a href="http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/index.php?entry=/movies/20060510-the_last_communist.txt">http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/index.php?entry=/movies/20060510-the_last_communist.txt</a><br />
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You can watch The Last Communist in its entirety here.<br />
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In 2007, Amir's follow-up 'Village People Radio Show', which contained more interviews with communist exiles in Betong, was rated NC16 by MDA and screened in public.<br />
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You can order the DVD here<br />
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In 'To Singapore With Love', the story of the elderly exiles in Betong Village makes up a small segment. There are no central characters, just a tapestry of vignettes that offer snapshots into the lives of octogenarian (ex)-communists. The Betong Village story is like refreshment to whet the appetites for the main course of the film.<br />
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And what is the main course?<br />
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They are the depiction of the lives of political dissidents Tan Wah Piow, Ho Juan Thai, the late Francis Khoo and Dr Ang Swee Chai, and a small cameo by Said Zahari, whose interview film 'Zahari's 17 Years' remains banned (not NAR, but gazetted and criminalised). All of whom were not featured in the aforementioned documentaries passed by MDA.<br />
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So what is it about the four main characters in TSWL that frightens the government so much?<br />
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To be sure, none of them were communists, or much less accused of being one, although Tan Wah Piow was named as the mastermind behind the bogus 'Marxist Conspiracy' arrests of 1987.<br />
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There is hardly any mention of Francis Khoo or Dr Ang Swee Chai's appearance in the film by the Government. In fact, after the death of Mr Khoo, Dr Ang was granted a one-off visa to visit Singapore. It was her first visit in decades. Moving freely, the world-renowned campaigner for Palestinian rights gave public talks. No threat to national security there, although it is unlikely the government will grant the ex-ISA detainee a permanent stay considering her outspokenness on human rights abuses.<br />
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Tan Wah Piow and Ho Juan Thai were both cited by Dr Yaacob Ibrahim as having left Singapore illegally. And the Minister added that "both Ho and Tan can return to Singapore, although they cannot expect to be granted immunity if they are found to have flouted the law." Do both fugitives undermine national security? Not by a long shot, and this is supported by the absence of statements pinning them down as such.<br />
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So how does the film undermine national security?<br />
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It lies in the reason behind the police's investigation of the SDP in 2011 after the party organised a public forum featuring political exiles Francis Seow and Tang Fong Har speaking via teleconferencing.<br />
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Police probe SDP forum involving exiled ISA detainees<br />
<a href="https://sg.news.yahoo.com/police-probe-sdp-forum-involving-exiled-isa-detainees.html">https://sg.news.yahoo.com/police-probe-sdp-forum-involving-exiled-isa-detainees.html</a><br />
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It is also the same reason that moved the Government to criminalise my films 'Zahari's 17 Years' and "Dr Lim Hock Siew'.<br />
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And it is this.<br />
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From the Government's perspective, personal accounts by political dissidents and the humanising of their lives via the medium of a film or video presents an affront to the authority and the public image of the PAP Government, particularly of the Internal Security Department. It raises questions of past human rights abuses which undermine the legacy of Lee Kuan Yew and the PAP.
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<a href="http://singaporerebel.blogspot.sg/2014/09/20-films-that-undermine-national.html">20 films that undermine the national security of Singapore</a><br />
<a href="http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2014/10/allowing-exiles-film-is-like-allowing-jihadi-terrorist-groups-to-show-film-publicly/">Allowing exiles film is “like allowing jihadi terrorist groups” to show film publicly</a><br />
<a href="http://www.straitstimes.com/news/opinion/more-opinion-stories/story/lets-talk-about-the-past-openly-warts-and-all-20141014">Let's talk about the past openly, warts and all</a><br />
<a href="http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2014/11/to-singapore-with-love-the-making-of-a-new-political-folklore/">“To Singapore With Love” – the making of a new political folklore</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2014/11/the-truth-from-a-singapore-exile/">The truth from a Singapore exile</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.tremeritus.com/2014/10/26/lees-one-sided-broadcasts-lacked-legitimacy/">Lee’s one sided broadcasts lacked legitimacy</a></div>
<a href="http://www.tremeritus.com/2014/10/31/rebutting-dpm-teo-2/">Rebutting DPM Teo</a><br />
<a href="http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2014/11/what-is-the-government-trying-to-hide/">What is the Government trying to hide?</a><br />
<a href="http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2014/11/public-records-counter-exiles-claims-sam-tan/">Public records counter exiles’ claims: Sam Tan</a><br /><a href="http://www.tremeritus.com/2014/11/13/the-truth-from-a-singapore-exile/"></a><a href="http://www.tremeritus.com/2014/11/13/the-truth-from-a-singapore-exile/">The truth from a Singapore exile</a> ll<div>
<a href="http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2014/11/charges-against-ho-juan-thai-errors-in-claims-and-contradictions/">Charges against Ho Juan Thai – errors in claims and contradictions?</a><br /><a href="http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2014/11/the-truth-from-a-singapore-exile/">The truth from a Singapore exile l</a><div>
<a href="http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/more-singapore-stories/story/appeal-reclassify-rating-singapore-love-rejected-2014111#sthash.dVpKSigx.dpuf">Appeal to reclassify rating of To Singapore, With Love rejected</a> </div>
<a href="http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/films-appeal-committee/1468312.html">Films Appeal Committee upholds rating for To Singapore, With Love</a></div>
MInghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00812324746322990767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9272856.post-10405759807927542252014-10-04T22:13:00.000+08:002014-10-13T12:56:39.003+08:00We should not allow political exiles to air 'self-serving' accounts : PM Lee<br />
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SINGAPORE — After his speech at the National University of Singapore Society (NUSS) Lecture today (Oct 3) Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong answered questions from the audience. Here are excerpts from his responses to questions about the Hong Kong protests and the film, To Singapore, with Love, directed by film-maker Tan Pin Pin.<br />
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Question on the conditions under which some of the more difficult, controversial points of history can be discussed more normally, so that there can be a common base from which to build a sense of “historical consciousness” and spring board for the future.<br />
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I think there is no hindrance to discussing the past in a normal way. People express, recount their memories, they write their memoirs. Historians research the archives, they write their thesis, they propound revisionist views of history, others rebut them. Academic fratricide is normal. I mean that is the way, hopefully, knowledge progresses; at least in the sciences, sometimes social sciences. I think what we are dealing with in To Singapore with love is not that. What is that issue in To Singapore, with Love — you’ve got to see it within a historical context. And the historical context was the communist insurgency, in fact an armed insurrection, in which thousands of people were killed. And the movie essentially is about some of these people involved ...<br />
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(While some people who were communist or sympathisers or activists have turned around and accounted for their actions, those in the film) have chosen not to do so, it’s their prerogative. But if they have chosen not to do so, why should we allow them, through a movie, to present an account of themselves, not of documentary history, objectively presented. But is a self-serving personal account, conveniently inaccurate in places, glossing over inconvenient facts and others, which will sully the honour and the reputation of the security people, and the brave men and women who fought the communist, all those many years.<br />
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A movie is different from a book, you write a book I can write a counter book, you can read together with the counter book. The movie, you watch the movie you think it’s a documentary. It may be like Fahrenheit 911, very convincing, but it’s not a documentary. And I think that we have to understand this in order to understand how to deal with these issues.<br />
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<b>Understand the past, be confident in the future: PM Lee</b><br />
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SINGAPORE — Even as society is immersed in the present, Singaporeans must understand their past and be confident of their future, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. <br />
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What Singapore has achieved is a function of its history and in the South-east Asian context, he said. “We ourselves must know our history, to understand how Singapore works, why we do the things we do.” <br />
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SG50 is an important occasion to remember the Republic’s history, said Mr Lee, as he announced the setting up of a memorial to the victims of Konfrontasi opposite MacDonald House. <br />
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The Battle for Merger, Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s radio talks in 1961, will also be republished next week. <br />
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At the same time, SG50 should also be a time to look ahead — to set new goals for the next 50 years and to aim high. <br />
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Mr Lee highlighted how Singapore is being transformed “in many ambitious ways”, such as the implementation of “bold” social policies and investment in people. <br />
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He noted that young people may sometime be anxious about the future, and while some anxiety is constructive — “it keeps us on our toes” — he cautioned that it should not lead to paralysis or despondency. <br />
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“We need to be both paranoid and at the same time paradoxically confident. Then we can make Singapore a special nation for Singaporeans,” he said. The Government will do its part, he said, and urged everybody to play their part.</div>
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<a href="https://sg.news.yahoo.com/defiant-singaporeans-view-banned-film-malaysia-210432182.html">By Bhavan Jaipragas | AFP News – Sat, Sep 20, 2014</a><br />
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Hundreds of defiant Singaporeans protesting censorship gathered in Malaysia on Friday to see a documentary banned by regulators in their home country as a threat to national security.<br />
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The film, "To Singapore, with Love", examines the case of political exiles in the city-state and features interviews with nine former activists, student leaders, and self-confessed communists who fled Singapore from the 1960s until the 1980s and are currently settled in Malaysia, Britain and Thailand.<br />
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Organisers estimated 400 people watched the screening, saying most of the audience was made up of Singaporeans who had crossed the border to view the production in the southern Malaysian city of Johor Bharu.<br />
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The Media Development Authority (MDA), Singapore's media regulator, on September 10 banned the documentary, saying it provided a "distorted and untruthful" account of the exiles' situation.<br />
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It said the film's contents undermined national security because it showed "legitimate actions of the security agencies to protect the national security and stability of Singapore are presented in a distorted way as acts that victimised innocent individuals".<br />
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According to the Singapore government, a number of the exiles featured in the film were former members of the Communist Party of Malaya, which had sought to overthrow governments in Singapore and Malaysia in the 1950s and 1960s.<br />
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Singapore became independent from the Malaysian federation in 1965.<br />
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"I am disappointed by the reaction of the MDA, I wish it was otherwise of course...I spent a lot of time making it and really would have liked this film to have been seen (in Singapore)," director Tan Pin Pin told the audience in remarks after the screening.<br />
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Tan added that she was weighing her options, including launching an appeal and holding "private screenings".<br />
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The production has been screened at film festivals in Germany, Dubai, South Korea and the United States, and will be shown at the SEA ArtsFest in London in October.<br />
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Singaporeans at the Malaysia screening, part of a "Freedom Filmfest", said the relatively large turnout by their compatriots despite the hassle of having to travel to Malaysia, signified indignance in the city-state over the film's censorship.<br />
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"The interest is evident in the number of people here, over 400 who turned up in Johor Bharu on a weekday afternoon," said 24-year-old university student Lim Jialiang.<br />
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"After watching the film now, it is difficult for me to imagine why the film had to be banned," he added.<br />
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The 70-minute documentary drew loud applause from the audience at the end of the screening.<br />
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The exiles featured in the film -- all aged 60 or older -- gave vivid details of how they left Singapore and of their current lives, with most expressing a longing to return home permanently.<br />
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Singapore, ruled by the same party since 1959, has relaxed strict social controls including media censorship in recent years, but continues to impose stringent regulations on films that discuss local politics.<br />
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The government previously banned two films about prominent ex-political detainees produced by local filmmaker Martyn See in 2007 and 2010.<br />
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<i><b>Further readings : </b></i><br />
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<a href="http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/yale-nus-shelves-plan-screen-singapore-love">Yale-NUS shelves plan to screen To Singapore, With Love</a><br />
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<a href="http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2014/09/19/yale-nus-changes-course-on-banned-film/">Yale-NUS changes course on banned film</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.tremeritus.com/2014/09/19/tan-says-no-to-yale-nus-for-screening-banned-film/">Tan to Yale-NUS: You may not screen banned film</a><br />
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<a href="http://news.asiaone.com/news/singapore/filmmaker-tan-pin-pin-weighs-options-appeal-decision-banned-documentary#sthash.roZmdrZC.dpuf">Filmmaker Tan Pin Pin weighs options to appeal decision on banned documentary</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2014/09/hundreds-of-sporeans-watch-spore-banned-film-in-msia/">Hundreds of S’poreans watch S’pore-banned film in M’sia</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/jb-screening-political-exiles-film-draws-many-sporeans">JB screening of political exiles film draws many S’poreans</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/have-you-heard-about-the-film-singapore-has-banned-its-people-from-watching-well-you-have-now-9736530.html">Have you heard about the film Singapore has banned its people from watching? Well, you have now</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/more-singapore-stories/story/singaporeans-arrive-johor-baru-screening-documentary-sin#1#xtor=CS1-10">MDA gives institutes of higher learning leeway to screen To Singapore with Love</a><br />
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<a href="http://news.asiaone.com/news/singapore/singaporeans-arrive-johor-baru-screening-documentary-singapore-love#sthash.6kXjv0t2.dpuf">Singaporeans arrive for Johor Baru screening of documentary To Singapore With Love</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.negarakita.com/Post-1073705-Film+banned%3A+Real+threat+or+just+wounded+pride">FILM BANNED: REAL THREAT OR JUST WOUNDED PRIDE</a><br />
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<a href="http://unfortunatelysingapore.blogspot.sg/2014/09/historys-many-shades-of-grey.html">History's many shades of grey</a><br />
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<a href="http://mothership.sg/2014/09/sporeans-travel-to-jb-for-movie-of-the-year/">S’poreans travel to JB for movie of the year</a><br />
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I<a href="http://stephdogfoot.wordpress.com/2014/09/21/i-went-to-malaysia-to-watch-a-film-made-in-singapore-about-singapores-political-exiles-because-the-film-isnt-allowed-be-publicly-screened-in-singapore-i-know-right-whoa/"> Went to Malaysia to Watch A Film Made In Singapore About Singapore’s Political Exiles Because The Film Isn’t Allowed Be Publicly Screened in Singapore. I know right? Whoa.</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.tnp.sg/news/johor-bahru-love-350-sporeans-watch-mda-banned-film-across-causeway">To Johor Bahru with love: 350 S'poreans watch MDA-banned film across Causeway </a><br />
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<a href="http://undertheangsanatree.blogspot.sg/2014/09/to-singapore-with-love.html">To Singapore, with Love 星国恋</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2014/09/counterproductive-to-ban-public-screening-of-to-singapore-with-love/">Counterproductive to ban public screening of “To Singapore, With Love”</a></div>
MInghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00812324746322990767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9272856.post-50284276355664799052014-09-17T13:19:00.000+08:002015-06-24T07:40:07.800+08:0020 films that undermine the national security of Singapore<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In banning the documentary 'To Singapore, With Love', the government reasoned that the film "undermines national security because legitimate actions of the security agencies to protect the national security and stability of Singapore are presented in a distorted way as acts that victimised innocent individuals".<br />
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Here are 19 other films that fit the above description of undermining the national security of Singapore.<br />
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<b>1. One Nation Under Lee</b><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/17qhGIwyGj0">http://youtu.be/17qhGIwyGj0</a><br />
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<b>2. Tan Wah Piow on the 'Marxist Conspiracy'</b><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/SOiZvmnEqQM">http://youtu.be/SOiZvmnEqQM</a><br />
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<b>3. A conversation with Tan Wah Piow (Parts I and ll)</b><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/DtYXxlSKvcc">http://youtu.be/DtYXxlSKvcc</a><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/OOai0VbcjnE">http://youtu.be/OOai0VbcjnE</a><br />
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<b>4. Francis Seow : The Interview</b><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/pzOLJE2ysNw">http://youtu.be/pzOLJE2ysNw</a><br />
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<b>5. Abolish ISA - Singapore</b><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/1GaPLhJI2KA">http://youtu.be/1GaPLhJI2KA</a><br />
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<b>6. Dr Lim Hock Siew (banned in Singapore)</b><br />
<a href="http://vimeo.com/m/13292596">https://youtu.be/P-RU0ISDrKI</a><br />
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<b>7. Zahari's 17 Years (banned in Singapore)</b><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/aaLaeDN4t2U">http://youtu.be/aaLaeDN4t2U</a><br />
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<b>8. Exiled Singapore Politician - Wong Soon Fong: </b><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/17UR_xHJ9Ac">http://youtu.be/17UR_xHJ9Ac</a><br />
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<b>9. Ex-ISA detainee issues challenge to Dr Tony Tan </b><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/Zk-TH257ggI">http://youtu.be/Zk-TH257ggI</a><br />
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<b>10. The Price of Freedom in Singapore - </b><br />
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<b>ISA fugitive Francis Khoo</b><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/bwwF8t8CuD0">http://youtu.be/bwwF8t8CuD0</a><br />
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<b>11. Dr Lim Hock Siew speaking at </b></div>
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<b>Said Zahari's book launch 1st July 2007 </b></div>
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<a href="http://youtu.be/1XfvMfjdHGQ">http://youtu.be/1XfvMfjdHGQ</a><br />
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<b>12. Vincent Cheng's speech at the SDP rally on 2 May, 2011</b><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/QYmAtoS5t-Q">http://youtu.be/QYmAtoS5t-Q</a><br />
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<b>13. Teo Soh Lung at the 50th Anniversary of Operation Coldstore</b><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/BhUp6QC1UOo">http://youtu.be/BhUp6QC1UOo</a> <br />
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<b>14. Teo Soh Lung speaks out </b><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/TxinEMu6Ix0">http://youtu.be/TxinEMu6Ix0</a><br />
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<b>15. Operation Coldstore Book launch </b><br />
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<b>(Parts 1 & ll)</b><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/sjEp-vIH2As">http://youtu.be/sjEp-vIH2As</a><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/O1GU9FMaSQs">http://youtu.be/O1GU9FMaSQs</a><br />
Dr Thum Ping Tjin<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/GwviaaULeiY">http://youtu.be/GwviaaULeiY</a><br />
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<b>16. Dr Poh Soo Kai at the 50th Anniversary of Operation Coldstore</b><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/y4GlGNgORZQ">http://youtu.be/y4GlGNgORZQ</a><br />
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<b>17. Q & A Session with Dr. Poh Soo Kai</b><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/YVcZADHF6kI">http://youtu.be/YVcZADHF6kI</a><br />
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<b>18. Operation Coldstore Roundtable - </b><br />
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<b>Dr Poh Soo Kai calls ISA detentions "crimes against humanity" </b></div>
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<b>(Parts 1 to lV)</b><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/S_87pA23fhs">http://youtu.be/S_87pA23fhs</a><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/-wwpVXmu2FM">http://youtu.be/-wwpVXmu2FM</a><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/3BuubqylXW4">http://youtu.be/3BuubqylXW4</a><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/96W3BbIZls4">http://youtu.be/96W3BbIZls4</a><br />
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<b>19. Lies of the "Marxist Conspiracy" </b><br />
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<b>by Vincent Wijeysingha (Parts l & ll)</b><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/KuLEaOsMT6I">http://youtu.be/KuLEaOsMT6I</a><br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/f7le7ZlLyhw">http://youtu.be/f7le7ZlLyhw</a><br />
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Watch also :<br />
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CNA report : ISA should be abolished, say former detainees<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/lygweeAv4BY">http://youtu.be/lygweeAv4BY</a><br />
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<b>Top 100 Political Videos (that are likely to be banned in Singapore)</b><br />
<a href="http://singaporerebel.blogspot.sg/2008/08/top-100-political-videos-that-are.html?m=1">http://singaporerebel.blogspot.sg/2008/08/top-100-political-videos-that-are.html?m=1</a></div>
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MInghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00812324746322990767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9272856.post-49188626532861749312014-09-12T11:47:00.000+08:002014-09-17T10:49:24.993+08:00Singapore bans film on political exiles 'To Singapore With Love'<b><a href="https://sg.news.yahoo.com/singapore-bans-local-documentary-political-102043140.html">Singapore bans local documentary on political exiles</a> </b><br />
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Singapore on Wednesday banned a local documentary about nine dissidents living in exile, saying its contents undermined national security.<br />
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The film "To Singapore, with Love", directed by Singaporean director Tan Pin Pin, features interviews with the former activists and student leaders who fled Singapore from the 1960s until the 1980s and are currently settled in countries including Britain and Thailand.<br />
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The 70-minute documentary was released in December last year and has been screened at film festivals in Germany, Dubai, South Korea and the United States.
Singapore's Media Development Authority (MDA) said in a statement it had "assessed that the contents of the film undermine national security because legitimate actions of the security agencies to protect the national security and stability of Singapore are presented in a distorted way as acts that victimised innocent individuals".<br />
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It said a number of the exiles were former members of the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) which had sought to overthrow governments in Singapore and Malaysia in the 1950s and 1960s.
"The individuals in the film have given distorted and untruthful accounts of how they came to leave Singapore and remain outside Singapore," the media regulator added.<br />
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MDA said the individuals were not denied the right to return to Singapore or forced to leave the city-state, as was portrayed in the movie.
"The government has made it clear that it would allow former CPM members to return to Singapore if they agree to be interviewed by the authorities on their past activities to resolve their cases," it said.<br />
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A description posted on the film's official website said the documentary explores how the exiles "lived their lives away and how they still view the Singapore of their dreams".
"They are now in their 60s to 80s. Some were activists, student leaders, others were card carrying communists," it said.<br />
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Tan, the film's director, said she was "very disappointed that my film is banned".<br />
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"By doing this, MDA is taking away an opportunity for us Singaporeans to see it and have a conversation about it and our past," she said in a Facebook post.
"We need to be trusted to be able find the answers about ourselves, for ourselves," she added.<br />
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But Singapore's information minister Yaacob Ibrahim said he supported the media regulator's decision.
"Individuals who have chosen to leave and remain outside Singapore, and refused to account for their past actions, should not enjoy a public platform to purvey distorted and untruthful accounts to mislead the public, absolve themselves or deny their past actions," he said in a statement on Facebook.<br />
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Malaysia gained independence in 1957 and Singapore in 1965, both from Britain, after brief periods of self-rule.
The Southeast Asian city-state famous for strict social controls has relaxed censorship rules in recent years, but maintains strict regulations on films that discuss local politics.<br />
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In 2010, the government ordered Singaporean filmmaker Martyn See to take down a YouTube video of a rare public talk by Lim Hock Siew, a doctor and activist held from 1963 to 1982 during then prime minister Lee Kuan Yew's rule.<br />
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In 2007, it banned a film by See on another political detainee, Said Zahari, a journalist.
Zahari and Lim were among more than 100 people alleged to be communists by Lee's government and rounded up in the early 1960s.<br />
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<a href="http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/singapores-banned-film-on-exiles-to-be-screened-in-malaysia">http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/singapores-banned-film-on-exiles-to-be-screened-in-malaysia</a><br />
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Freedom Film Festival <br />
<a href="http://freedomfilmfest.komas.org/festival/schedule-2/">http://freedomfilmfest.komas.org/festival/schedule-2/</a><br />
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Singapore bans local documentary on political exiles<br />
<a href="https://sg.news.yahoo.com/singapore-bans-local-documentary-political-102043140.htm">https://sg.news.yahoo.com/singapore-bans-local-documentary-political-102043140.htm</a><br />
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No screening for documentary due to MDA’s delay<br />
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Further readings :<br />
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<a href="http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/tan-pin-pin-s-film-to/1355208.html">Tan Pin Pin's film To Singapore, With Love not to be shown in public</a><br />
<a href="http://asiancorrespondent.com/126573/to-singapore-with-love-documentary-banned-by-mda/">‘To Singapore, With Love’ documentary screenings banned by MDA</a><br />
<a href="http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/10/film-about-exiles-is-banned-in-singapore/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0">Film About Exiles Is Banned in Singapore</a><br />
<a href="http://www.thestar.com.my/Lifestyle/Entertainment/Movies/News/2014/09/11/To-Singapore-With-Love-banned-in-its-home-country/">‘To Singapore With Love’ banned in its home country</a><br />
<a href="http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2014/09/statement-by-civil-society-on-mdas-decision-to-ban-local-film-to-singapore-with-love/">Statement by civil society on MDA’s decision to ban local film, “To Singapore, with love”</a><br />
<a href="https://au.news.yahoo.com/entertainment/a/24968848/singapore-artists-urge-overturn-of-documentary-ban/">Singapore artists urge overturn of documentary ban</a><br />
<a href="http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2014/09/ban-on-film-contrary-to-what-sg50-promised/">Ban on film contrary to what SG50 promised</a><br />
<a href="http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2014/09/11/dont-tell-us-what-is-true-let-us-judge-by-opening-official-records/">Don’t tell us what is true, let us judge by opening official records</a><br />
<a href="http://ariffin-sha.com/mda-let-the-people-judge/">MDA, Let the People Judge</a><br />
<a href="http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2014/09/film-on-exiles-mda-explains-what-purely-private-means/">Film on exiles – MDA explains what “purely private” means</a>MInghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00812324746322990767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9272856.post-18661454633133116722014-08-29T15:49:00.000+08:002014-08-29T15:49:51.733+08:00The nature of PAP's governance is "a continuation of colonial rule"This is probably the most important speech you will NOT hear in the SG50 celebrations next year.<br />
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Historian PJ Thum exposes the 3 Myths of Vulnerability, Development and Meritocracy and calls the PAP Government an "imperial government and a continuation of colonial rule"<br />
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"So if you're the first Prime Minister of Singapore. You have just been handed power by the British. Where does your legitimacy come from? You're not an indigenous people. You've won an election under very dubious circumstances where you put your political opponents into cold storage. So what do you do? You take a leaf out of the previous colonial government. You reject democracy, you suspend individual rights, you continue to cripple all sorts of safeguards against your exercise of State power etc. by arguing that Singapore is an exceptional case, by arguing for Singaporean exceptionalism. Why? You use the three myths of development, vulnerability and meritocracy."<br />
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THE MYTH OF DEVELOPMENT<br />
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"By 1950, Singapore was the richest country in Asia. The only country in Asia that was richer than Singapore was metropolitan Tokyo. It was famous then for everything that we are famous for today - tall buildings, wide boulevards, clean drinking water. We had more cars per capita than anywhere in Asia. We were famous for being a trading port, an offshore financial centre, a specialised commodities futures centre, world market for rubber and tin, an oil distribution centre. Lee Kuan Yew himself in 1960 as his electoral fortunes declined as he got more and more unpopular, kept going around saying, "Look, Singapore has the highest income in Asia." If you read the Straits Times in 1960 he kept saying this to point out how good we were doing."<br />
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THE MYTH OF MERITOCRACY<br />
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"The PAP's first generation, the Old Guards as we celebrate so much, was an example of how great leadership and talent can be found from people of all backgrounds regardless of education and upbringing. But after the party split several times in the 50s and early 60s, the leadership needed people they could trust to fill the ranks and so they turn to people who are like them - friends, colleagues, relatives - people with talent and who were smart but who thought very much like the leaders of the PAP. So power became concentrated in the hands of a narrow elite. And over time this has meant homogenity of thoughts, values and experiences. They think alike, they feel alike, they believe the same things. Multiple studies on Singapore's elite have shown that the strongest determinant of elite status in Singapore is the proximity to the PAP leadership. The elite is overwhelmingly male, overwhelmingly ethnic Chinese, overwhelmingly upper class; they attend a narrow range of schools, something like 90% of scholarship holders come from just 4 schools. Because a majority of them were male, most of them would have actively served in the military as scholar officers. Don't get me wrong. Within this elite, competition is very fierce and is meritocratic. But to get in there is an accident by birth and the rest of Singaporeans are excluded by definition from the very beginning. So you have a pre-selected elite who don't know that they are the pre-selected elite, who within the competition of this pre-selected elite, believed that they have gotten to where they are through hard work and therefore they owe nothing to the rest of society for their position.."<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqhekebPHvkl0nWKJK44k4SEJMBSQDRnSOXShqURg-c4iwkhF__qUjiEHYuZcGSvdXn5NYGcLXi2DbFDaIWplOTeXTlwxzHozci6yHRkCAqTt3c3DE9ukNzzZ_tD3tVnT4rvrsIg/s1600/PAP+government+colonial+rule+imperial.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqhekebPHvkl0nWKJK44k4SEJMBSQDRnSOXShqURg-c4iwkhF__qUjiEHYuZcGSvdXn5NYGcLXi2DbFDaIWplOTeXTlwxzHozci6yHRkCAqTt3c3DE9ukNzzZ_tD3tVnT4rvrsIg/s1600/PAP+government+colonial+rule+imperial.jpg" height="400" width="316" /></a>"The PAP has abandoned attempts to restore democratic normality and instead have reasserted Singapore's exceptionalism.<br />
Singapore's vulnerability was emphasised. Legislative authority was used to legitimise regulatory oppression. The media was suppressed and a monopoly was asserted over public discourse. Opposition has been depicted as subversive and detention without trial has been used to remove the leadership of the political opposition.<br />
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To maintain the three myths, the PAP, like the British, have used instruments of intellectual and legislative control. Over the decades the PAP has gone further than the British in implementing colonial policies in destroying Chinese education, shutting down Nantah, ending all Chinese schools..<br />
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To me the really sad thing is Singapore democracy really worked from 1955 to 1963 when Singaporeans went to the polls on an average of once a year. And out of this short period emerged policies that made Singapore world-famous today - HDB, CPF, industrialisation, a tri-lingual education system that produced a reasonably talented second generation of PAP leadership. But after the PAP's absolute control in 1968, what do we have? We have Stop At Two, the second industrial revolution where GDP dropped 10% in just one year, we have a CPF that's constantly being fiddled with.. And that is a product of a lack of democracy, a lack of debate, a lack of dissent and a lack of new ideas in the government.<br />
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The nature of our governance in Singapore today is an imperial government. It is a continuation of colonial rule."<br />
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MInghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00812324746322990767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9272856.post-35643994199668162582014-08-08T21:00:00.001+08:002015-04-11T13:23:45.932+08:00Photos : Lee Kuan Yew's analects Part ll<a href="http://singaporerebel.blogspot.sg/2011/11/photos-lee-kuan-yews-analects.html">Part l</a><br />
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<a href="http://singaporerebel.blogspot.sg/2013/10/photos-will-real-kuan-yew-please-stand.html">Photos : Will the real Kuan Yew please stand up?</a><br />
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<br />MInghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00812324746322990767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9272856.post-61491377130036201302014-08-08T20:51:00.003+08:002015-03-27T10:00:53.680+08:00Posters : Lim Hock Siew<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />MInghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00812324746322990767noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9272856.post-21965647963682682322014-06-24T16:59:00.001+08:002014-06-24T17:04:19.203+08:00An open letter to Lee Kuan YewThe following was emailed to lee_kuan_yew@pmo.gov.sg on 15th May 2014. There has been no reply.<br />
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<u>Request for an interview with Mr Lee Kuan Yew</u><br />
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Dear sir,<br />
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My name is Martyn See. I am an political blogger and filmmaker. I have made films on Dr Chee Soon Juan, Mr Said Zahari and the late Dr Lim Hock Siew. I would like to request for a video interview with Mr Lee Kuan Yew. The final video will be published online on youtube, but the final cut will be subjected to the approval by your office. <br />
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The interview will likely take about 90 minutes and will cover the following topics:<br />
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- a response to accusations of treason for having served as a translator for the Japanese news agency during the Occupation.<br />
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- a response to open records of the National Archives of UK which contained testimonials that contradict the government's long-held assertions that Mr Lim Chin Siong and the detainees of Operation Coldstore were engaging in communist activities.<br />
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- a response to a published comment by Dr Toh Chin Chye that he did not understand why you had shed tears during the press conference over Separation when it was you who had wanted it.<br />
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- a response to the extended incarceration of Dr Chia Thye Poh.<br />
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- a response to the view that the Marxist conspiracy arrests of 1987/88 were based on bogus charges initiated by you and the ISD.<br />
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- a response to charges by Amnesty International and former detainees to the use of physical and psychological torture by the ISD.<br />
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- a response to a US State Department report that the government routinely conduct surveillance on the opposition and government critics.<br />
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- a response to a view that public funds, in particular the CPF, are used to prop up the investment losses suffered by GIC and Temasek Holdings.<br />
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- your views on race, with regards to maintaining a Chinese majority in the country, Malays in the military, HDB's racial quota, race-based welfare organisations and the GRC system.<br />
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- a response to a view that government policies are increasingly being influenced by Christian moral values, particularly in the areas of sex education, arts censorship and rights of LGBTs.<br />
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- a response to the immigration and foreign workforce policies.<br />
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- an appraisal of Lee Hsien Loong's performance.<br />
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- a view on Lee Hsien Loong's likely successor.<br />
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- a prognosis of a post-LKY PAP and Singapore.<br />
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- an update of your health.<br />
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- your views on spirituality, death and the afterlife.<br />
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I look forward to your reply.<br />
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Yours sincerely,<br />
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Martyn See<br />
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