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Dr Vincent Wijeysingha wants PAP to apologize for ‘criminal imprisonment’ of Tan Jing Quee and other ISA detainees
June 18th, 2011 |
Author: Temasek Review
SDP candidate for GE 2011 Dr Vincent Wijeysingha has lashed out at the PAP regime for using the Internal Security Act (ISA) to detain its political opponents such as the late Tan Jing Quee who passed away recently.
Mincing no words, he called on the PAP to apologize for the ‘criminal imprisonment’ of Mr Tan and other detainees:
A leader of the University Socialist Club in the early 1960s, Mr Tan Jing Quee contested in the 1963 elections as a candidate of the Barisan Sosialist and lost to S Rajaratnam by a mere 220 votes. He was detained in 1963 under ‘Operation Coldstore’ for alleged pro-communist activities and again in 1977 for allegedly joining a group to revive pro-communist activities.
According to recently declassified British archives, the Barisan Sosialist leaders were never communists and had no links with the Malayan Communist Party as accused by PAP supreme leader Lee Kuan Yew which formed the basis for his use of the ISA to detain his political rivals.
Mr Lim Chin Joo, the younger brother of PAP co-founder Lim Chin Siong described Mr Tan as a man ‘dedicated to the cause of improving the lot of Singaporeans, not someone who would create civil disorder and destabilise the country’.
After his release from detention, Mr Tan described his traumatic experience in a poem, ISA Detainee:
How could I ever forget those Neanderthals
Who roamed Whitley Holding Centre*,
Under cover of darkness,
Poured buckets of ice water
Over my stripped, shivering nakedness,
Slugged my struggling, painful agony
Circling , sneering, snarling
Over my freezing nudity,
More animals than men:
What induced this
Vengeful venom, violent score
To settle, not for a private grievance
But a public, democratic dissidence;
From whence sprang this barbarity?
What made men turn into beasts
In the dark, away from prying eyes,
Protected by a code of dishonour and lies
To ensure they survive and rise.
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Dr Vincent Wijeysingha wants PAP to apologize for ‘criminal imprisonment’ of Tan Jing Quee and other ISA detainees
SDP candidate for GE 2011 Dr Vincent Wijeysingha has lashed out at the PAP regime for using the Internal Security Act (ISA) to detain its political opponents such as the late Tan Jing Quee who passed away recently.
Mincing no words, he called on the PAP to apologize for the ‘criminal imprisonment’ of Mr Tan and other detainees:
A leader of the University Socialist Club in the early 1960s, Mr Tan Jing Quee contested in the 1963 elections as a candidate of the Barisan Sosialist and lost to S Rajaratnam by a mere 220 votes. He was detained in 1963 under ‘Operation Coldstore’ for alleged pro-communist activities and again in 1977 for allegedly joining a group to revive pro-communist activities.
According to recently declassified British archives, the Barisan Sosialist leaders were never communists and had no links with the Malayan Communist Party as accused by PAP supreme leader Lee Kuan Yew which formed the basis for his use of the ISA to detain his political rivals.
Mr Lim Chin Joo, the younger brother of PAP co-founder Lim Chin Siong described Mr Tan as a man ‘dedicated to the cause of improving the lot of Singaporeans, not someone who would create civil disorder and destabilise the country’.
After his release from detention, Mr Tan described his traumatic experience in a poem, ISA Detainee:
How could I ever forget those Neanderthals
Who roamed Whitley Holding Centre*,
Under cover of darkness,
Poured buckets of ice water
Over my stripped, shivering nakedness,
Slugged my struggling, painful agony
Circling , sneering, snarling
Over my freezing nudity,
More animals than men:
What induced this
Vengeful venom, violent score
To settle, not for a private grievance
But a public, democratic dissidence;
From whence sprang this barbarity?
What made men turn into beasts
In the dark, away from prying eyes,
Protected by a code of dishonour and lies
To ensure they survive and rise.
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