LKY did not do that, even though the talk on the street said so. The fires were most likely a result of careless cigarette smokers thoughtlessly tossing the unsmoked ciggie butts onto the floors. President Dutuerte on the other hand open supported the assasinations and even implied he was behind them.
Cheers!
Cheers!
The end justifies the means.
LKY did the same thing. He literally set fire to huge swathes of Singapore in order to get rid of squatters in order to speed up the redevelopment of the country.
Had he gone through the courts Singapore would still be swampland.