~from Martyn See’s blog~
There are three things you need to know about Singapore.
1. The only political violence that has happened in the last 45 years in Singapore are the ones inflicted on political prisoners behind the walls of the Internal Security Department.
Links :
Political detention in Singapore : Prisoner case histories
The ISA as a political tool
Life in Singapore’s political prisons
Surviving long-term detention without trial
Detention of journalists and lawyers under the ISA
A detainee remembers
2. The Internal Security Act has been abused (to serve political ends) more often than it has been used appropriately (to safeguard national security).
23 years after Operation Spectrum : Ex-detainees recall mental and physical abuses
I’ll forgive Lee Kuan Yew if he admits to his error and apologises to me : Lim Hock Siew
3. The people and the institution responsible for the political violence and the abuse of ISA are still in power today. Open discussions on such topics remained sensitive, and even outlawed, in Singapore.
Zahari’s 17 Years – rated PG by censors, banned by Minister
Ex-detainee Vincent Cheng barred from speaking in history seminar
Here we go again – Govt bans another Martyn See’s film
Operation Spectrum forum cancelled
Police retracts licence request after Minister queried
Zahari’s 17 Years remains banned : MICA
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