He rules Singapore like an army camp, command this command that!
He is a destructive control freak! The faster
he leaves Singapore the better.
No choice. His policies are designed to suppress the dialect
chinese in Singapore.
75% of Singapore are dialect chinese. Naturally he feels
insecure.
Actually Harry Lee can be considered a bastard because it was
the dialect chinese who gave him support and put him in power in
the 50s, but yet he turned his back on them.
He owns us dialect chinese a political debt, that bastard Harry
Lee.
In their essays, they gave the social and political background,
examined the historical framework and explained the context of the
period in which the Chinese middle school student movement was
inspired and later grew.
The students formed a united, open and legal movement, the
Singapore Chinese Middle School Students’ Union (SCMSSU), a year
after the May 13 incident but it was banned barely a year later by
the colonial government for engaging in pro-communist
activities.
Former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew, a young Cambridge-trained
lawyer then, was SCMSSU’s legal counsel.
It was through the students that Mr Lee got to know young
Chinese-educated leftist trade unionists like Fong Swee Suan and
rural dwellers’ association leaders such as Chan Chiaw Thor.
Together with other like-minded people, including several of Mr
Lee’s English-educated friends, they secured a mass base for a
political party and formed the People’s Action Party (PAP) in
November 1954.
It was student support that helped the PAP win
the municipal and legislative elections in the
1950s, leading
to its landslide election victory in 1959 when it became the ruling
party.
Many scholars have said that PAP and the
Singapore story would have turned out quite differently if not for
the May 13 incident.
Former leftists and alternative history writers
often said the role and significance of the student movement were
insufficiently told in the dominant, official
narrative.
‘This volume, The May 13 Generation, marks the
breaking of that silence,’ said Prof Tan, who was SCMSSU’s English
secretary when he was a Chung Cheng High student in the
1950s.
Prof Tan, a graduate of the former Nanyang
University in 1960 who later left for his postgraduate studies
overseas, is among those who have broken their silence. He wrote
about his involvement in the student movement for the first time
after nearly 60 years in the chapter, My Story, in the
book.
Also sharing her story for the first time is Madam Loh, who was
among the arrested students when the colonial government cracked
down on them on Oct 10, 1956. Her chapter is entitled The Two Faces
Of Men In White.
Other contributors include retired lawyer Lim Chin Joo and former
Barisan MP Lim Huan Boon.
‘The telling of the story of the Chinese middle
school students of the 1950s now begins,’ said Prof
Tan.
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