1963 Operation Coldstore, a joint Malaysian-Singaporean
operation to arrest 117 opposition party and labor union leaders,
some of whom were detained for up to 17 years. Evidence linking Lim
Chin Siong and Barisan Sosialis to be communist seems vague at the
most. In other words, there was no direct evidence linking Lim
Ching Siong and Barisan Sosialis to the communist.
1966 Chia Thye Poh, a member of the Barisan Sosialis, was
detained without trial for 32 years under the ISA. He spent the
last nine years under house arrest in the resort island of Sentosa.
In October 1966, Chia, together with eight other Members of
Parliament from the Barisan Sosialis, boycotted the Parliament.
This was part of the Barisan's strategy to protest "undemocratic
acts" of the Government, by carrying their struggle against the
ruling People's Action Party (PAP) outside of Parliament.In the
same year, Chia Thye Poh led a demonstration of supporters to the
Parliament House and handed a letter to the Clerk of Parliament,
demanding a General Election, the release of all political
detainees, and the revocation of all "undemocratic" laws.
In 1989, Chia was released from 23 years of imprisonment without
trial on the mainland, and confined to a one-room guardhouse on
Sentosa and made to pay the rent, on the pretext that he was now a
"free" man. Chia was also made to purchase and prepare his own
food.
1987 In a security operation known as Operation Spectrum, 22
Roman Catholic church and social activists and professionals were
detained under the ISA. They were accused of being members of a
dangerous Marxist conspiracy bent on subverting the government by
force and replacing it with a Marxist state.
After they were released, several of the detainees issued a
statement countering government denials that they had been
tortured. They were promptly rearrested. They were later released
only on condition that they sign statutory declarations denying
everything they had said in their earlier press statement. An
intrepid lawyer, former attorney-general Francis Seow, stepped in
to represent one of the detainees who had sought his legal
assistance. When Seow arrived at the detention center, he himself
was detained by the ISD and was not released for more than two
months. He was later charged and convicted in absentia for tax
evasion. Seow now lives in exile in the United States.
Even until recently, the case of the Marxist conspirators remains a
puzzle. The detainees themselves did not fit the stereotype of the
"agitators" whose activities were so troublesome to the PAP in the
1950s and 1960s. Inspired by the success of communist insurrection
in China and Vietnam, the old guard leftists tended to be
hot-headed, populist orators. The detainees, by contrast, consisted
primarily of educated professionals. Indeed, the man accused of
masterminding the plot was Vincent Cheng, a 40 year-old social
worker for the Roman Catholic church, who had once studied to be a
priest. Another prominent target was lawyer Teo Soh Lung, a
Workers' Party supporter who had tangled with prime minister Lee
during parliamentary hearings on the Law Society in 1986. Other
detainees included social workers, lawyers and actors.
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