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In Defence of Dr PJ Thum and Academic Freedom in Singapore
by Project SEA on 17 April 2018
We, the undersigned Trustees of Oxford Project Southeast Asia, wish to express in the strongest possible terms our concern regarding the treatment of Dr PJ Thum in recent hearings of the Singapore government’s Select Committee on Deliberate Online Falsehoods. Co-ordinator of Project Southeast Asia, and a member of its Board of Trustees, Dr Thum is a historian of Singapore’s independence struggle of the 1950s and 1960s, and since completing his doctorate at Oxford on this subject in 2011 has continued his research, notably reviewing documentation released recently by the British government on that era, and making his findings available to a wider audience. The documentation provided by his original and carefully sourced research has revealed events and relationships between Singapore’s leaders of the period that run counter to the view of the country’s history as now promoted by the Singapore government.
Earlier this year, Dr Thum responded to the public call, by the Select Committee, for submissions on the current state of media information and its reliability in Singapore. However, when called to interview by the Committee, he found that the contents of his submission were not the object of their inquiry, and were never directly discussed. Instead, Dr Thum was subjected to six hours of questioning by the Minister for Law and Home Affairs which focussed on the findings of his academic research. In the course of this interrogation, which may be viewed in full online at the Government of Singapore’s YouTube channel, the Minister repeatedly expressed disdain for Dr Thum’s research, rephrasing its findings in general terms that misrepresented it, and attempting to get Dr Thum to agree to those rephrasings by attempting to force him to provide only yes/no answers. Dr Thum has since been subject to unflattering and one-sided reporting by the media.
Dr Thum’s research has already met the rigorous standards of examination at Oxford, and in peer review by fellow historical experts on the region. There is an evident irony in a Select Committee addressed to deliberate information falsehoods which proceeds by impugning and restating empirical findings. The implications for academic freedom, and for freedom of expression in Singapore, are very troubling. Instead of a hearing with the stated objective of securing truth in information, the actual conduct of its questioning appears designed to intimidate those who seek to publish the truth.
We call on the Select Committee to issue an immediate and public apology for this unacceptable treatment of Dr Thum.
Dr Philip Kreager (Chair)
Dr Gerry Bodeker
Professor Jeff Burley
Dr Peter Carey
Dr Mari Mulyani
Dr Gillian Petrokofsky
Download the statement in PDF format
by Project SEA on 17 April 2018
We, the undersigned Trustees of Oxford Project Southeast Asia, wish to express in the strongest possible terms our concern regarding the treatment of Dr PJ Thum in recent hearings of the Singapore government’s Select Committee on Deliberate Online Falsehoods. Co-ordinator of Project Southeast Asia, and a member of its Board of Trustees, Dr Thum is a historian of Singapore’s independence struggle of the 1950s and 1960s, and since completing his doctorate at Oxford on this subject in 2011 has continued his research, notably reviewing documentation released recently by the British government on that era, and making his findings available to a wider audience. The documentation provided by his original and carefully sourced research has revealed events and relationships between Singapore’s leaders of the period that run counter to the view of the country’s history as now promoted by the Singapore government.
Earlier this year, Dr Thum responded to the public call, by the Select Committee, for submissions on the current state of media information and its reliability in Singapore. However, when called to interview by the Committee, he found that the contents of his submission were not the object of their inquiry, and were never directly discussed. Instead, Dr Thum was subjected to six hours of questioning by the Minister for Law and Home Affairs which focussed on the findings of his academic research. In the course of this interrogation, which may be viewed in full online at the Government of Singapore’s YouTube channel, the Minister repeatedly expressed disdain for Dr Thum’s research, rephrasing its findings in general terms that misrepresented it, and attempting to get Dr Thum to agree to those rephrasings by attempting to force him to provide only yes/no answers. Dr Thum has since been subject to unflattering and one-sided reporting by the media.
Dr Thum’s research has already met the rigorous standards of examination at Oxford, and in peer review by fellow historical experts on the region. There is an evident irony in a Select Committee addressed to deliberate information falsehoods which proceeds by impugning and restating empirical findings. The implications for academic freedom, and for freedom of expression in Singapore, are very troubling. Instead of a hearing with the stated objective of securing truth in information, the actual conduct of its questioning appears designed to intimidate those who seek to publish the truth.
We call on the Select Committee to issue an immediate and public apology for this unacceptable treatment of Dr Thum.
Dr Philip Kreager (Chair)
Dr Gerry Bodeker
Professor Jeff Burley
Dr Peter Carey
Dr Mari Mulyani
Dr Gillian Petrokofsky
Download the statement in PDF format
And when the Straits Times reports what the Ministars said, it continues to perpetuate the gospel truth! Hence, we can safely conclude that the Straits Times publishes the truth and nothing but the whole truth!
On the other hand we all know what sort of garbage the STATES Time produces.
Of course..Singapore Press Holdings and MediaCorp is the Truth. Nothing but the truth and even more truthful than the Holy Bible.
Chao drug trafficker BE angmoh has no say on Singapore present and future.
Bandit Drug trafficker BE are not welcome.
BE established Singapore to stored opium and military base to attack China.
Go get fuck off Oxford my arse....
Bandit Drug trafficker BE are not welcome.
BE established Singapore to stored opium and military base to attack China.
Go get fuck off Oxford my arse....
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Lightning strike Shitskin Shan! Fuck his dalit mother's black pussy.
They were fed with garbage by the PAP, and thus publish garbage materials for public consumption. It is called garbage in garbage out.
You make the sinners sound like some god almighty!!.
Fuck off Oxford! Don't meddle in our domestic politics!
U have more pressing issues in UK, go fucking fix them! Kay poh chees
