In an event where a conflict breaks out, you will not have a
problem of a chinese singaporean hesitating to shoot someone from
china or a malay or indian doing the same.
Yes, I think that is true.
They exist because PAP regime can use them to shoot at
anyone.
Local citizens, there might be risk of coup or
assassination.
Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale 's separatist Sikh militant group took
up positions within the precincts of the Golden Temple, Sikhism's
holiest shrine. Despite the presence of thousands of
civilians in the Golden Temple complex at the time Gandhi ordered the Army into the
shrine in an attempt to clear it of the militants in New
Delhi.
Accounts differ in the number of military and civilian
casualties. Government
estimates include four officers, seventy-nine soldiers, and 492
militants; other accounts are much higher, perhaps 500 or more
troops and 3,000 others, including many pilgrims caught in
the crossfire. While the exact figures related to civilian
casualties are disputed, the timing and method of the attack remain
controversial.
Indira Gandhi had
numerous bodyguards, two of whom were Satwant Singh and Beant
Singh, both Sikhs. On October 31, 1984 they assassinated Indira Gandhi with
their service weapons in the garden of the Prime Minister's
Residence at No. 1, Safdarjung Road in New Delhi.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indira_Gandhi
Lee Kuan Yew, being the kiasu kiasee type probably prefered
bodyguards he can trust.
Don't want any guards putting a bullet into him now do we?
