Door opens for
return of political exile
South China Morning Post February 27, 1999
BARRY PORTER in Singapore
POLITICALl exile Ho Juan Thai has been told he is
welcome to return after 22 years - if he is prepared to be
interviewed over his allegedly racially inflammatory speeches
during the 1976 general elections.
However, Malaysian opposition politician Abdul Razak Ahmad is
stillpersona non grata.
Mr Ho fled to Britain in 1977 after unsuccessfully standing as a
candidate for the opposition Workers Party during the 1976
election, which now Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew's People's Action
Party won hands down.
While campaigning, Mr Ho lambasted the government's promotion of
the use of English over Chinese. He fled before police could detain
him under the Internal Security Act as a national threat.
He allegedly doctored his passport to help him leave the
country. Mr Ho has since repeatedly challenged the government to
arrest him.
Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng told parliament yesterday:
"Although no warrant of arrest has been issued against Mr Ho, the
authorities would like to interview him over his racially
inflammatory speeches."
If Mr Ho was obliging, the Singapore High Commission in London
would issue him with a one-way document to return home.
Mr Wong was responding to a parliamentary question by Workers
Party leader Joshua Jeyaretnam as to why the Singapore immigration
authorities had been reluctant to issue Mr Ho a new passport.
The minister said Mr Ho had not been given a new passport
because he had failed to respond to Immigration Department
queries.
Mr Wong said: "Mr Ho had publicly declared that he amended the
expiry date of his passport to enter the UK in July 1977. This may
constitute an offence of forgery."
Mr Jeyaretnam also asked why Mr Abdul Razak, deputy president of
Parti Rakyat Malaysia, a Malaysian pro-democracy party, was still
barred after 33 years.
Mr Wong said it was because he had taken part in "subversive
activities" while studying law at Singapore University. "It is the
view of this government that Abdul Razak is an undesirable person",
he said.
Published in
the South China Morning
Post. Feb 27,
1999
http://www.singapore-window.org/sw99/90227sc.htm
While campaigning,
Mr Ho lambasted the government's promotion of
the use of English over Chinese. He
fled before police could detain him under the Internal Security Act
as a national threat.
That fucking anglo dog Lee Kuan Yew, a dog of the british to the
end.
Singapore 75% chinese, but must follow that bastard's policies
to learn his fucking english.
He won't rest until all chinese turn to anglo dogs like
himself.
More I study singapore history, Lee Kuan Yew's career, the more
I realise this Lee Kuan Yew is a scumbag to the core.
Chinese in singapore suay to have this type of anglo dog like
lee Kuan yew as dictator.