More orders for A Nation
Cheated
Barely two weeks after it placed the second order for A
Nation Cheated, Kinokuniya Bookstore has ordered more copies
of the book. Written by Dr Chee Soon Juan, the book is selling
briskly and is obviously in demand. Select Books, a small bookshop
at the Tanglin Shopping Centre, is also selling it.
The first part of the book delves into how Mr Lee Kuan Yew really
came to power.
Singaporeans have been repeatedly told that Mr Lee had
defeated the communists in a life-and-death struggle to control
Singapore.
Declassified documents in London, however, show that things may not
have been quite so heroic. The information that has surfaced
reveals that there was
much behind-the-scenes machination between Mr Lee and the
British.
Mr Lim and his allies were repeatedly arrested by the colonial
government which paved the way for Mr Lee and his faction to come
to power.
Records indicate that in reality the British did not consider the
late Lim Chin Siong a communist and officials stated repeatedly
that his fight for power was well within constitutional
means.
It was, in fact, Mr Lee
Kuan Yew who insisted that Mr Lim be detained without trial.
At the same time, however, he did not want to be seen openly
calling for his comrade's arrest for fear of a political backlash
as the charismatic Lim was hugely popular with
Singaporeans.
And so Mr Lee schemed to
get the British to front the crackdown. Mr Lim together with
more than a hundred others were detained under the ISA in 1963. He
was subjected to cruel and humiliating treatment by Mr Lee's
Internal Security Department. Mr Lim subsequently suffered from
depression in prison and tried to commit suicide.
Historians and commentators have repeatedly stated that while Mr
Lim Chin Siong was much loved and supported by Singaporeans, his
nemesis Mr Lee was the one that London wanted to see become prime
minister.
Several years into the detention, Prime Minister Lee insisted that
his erstwhile party colleague be exiled to the UK. Mr Lim was
allowed to return to Singapore only in 1979. He died in 1996 of a
heart attack.
Apart from historical developments, A Nation Cheated also
documents how Singaporeans have been deprived of the economic
security that has been promised to them even as their political
rights have been denied them.
This book is a must-read for those who want to peel the scales off
their eyes and read about the side of Singapore that the Government
won't reveal. The myths that have been woven about the
PAP is exposed and Singaporeans desperately need to acquaint
themselves with the truth.
http://www.yoursdp.org/index.php/news/singapore/
I
think I better go and buy my second copy before the second lot runs
out...
