Ah Gong once worked for the Kempeitai. When he passed on, hundreds of thousands of people queued up to pay their last respects and gave him a hero's send-off. The Malay Regiment fought to the last man against the Japs, but till today, nobody knows any of their names other than Lt. Adnan.
So what's wrong with joining the Kempeitai?
These people was not informed properly that many of their ancestors, least it be , sons, brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers, uncles, etc...were slaughtered by the Kempatai when they arrived here & our Chinese people at the Nanjing Massacre & all the atrocities committed in China.
These people who attended are from all the "members" branches, very likely given good food & drinks & other incentives, there maybe a sprinkling of others, who out of respect went....in short, an orchestrated outpouring of support, like those we see from Hitler time to Mao's & to today's North Korea...
The Kempatai is not your NTUC....they kill people....that is the different!