However, the Singapores government cooperation with the Chinese communist government is at odds with its claims last month. Earlier last month, the Singapore government banned the film, ‘To Singapore with Love’ on the pretext of communist insurgency. “Communist hit squads assassinated Singaporeans in broad daylight,” the Minister for Communications and Information Yaacob Ibrahim said. “The film “To Singapore, With Love” contains untruths and deception about this history. Therefore it received an appropriate classification which disallowed it for public viewing,” he added. “It gives a misleading account of these individuals’ past, and makes no attempt to present an objective account of the violent Communist insurrection that they had participated in and have not renounced.” “It would also be a gross injustice to the men and women who braved violence and intimidation to stand up to the Communists, especially those who lost their lives in the fight to preserve Singapore’s security and stability, and secure a democratic, non-Communist Singapore,” Mr Yaacob also said. Mr Yaacob also said that, “The CPM also used Communist United Front tactics to infiltrate and take control of open organisations like student bodies, labour unions, political parties and cultural organisations.” In his National Day Rally this year, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong also thanked the first Organising Secretaries in the People’s Association for being “the frontline soldiers in the battle against communists and helped the Government to win the people’s support.” However, in publicly-released records in the British archives, Maurice LB Williams, the Security Liaison Officer (who headed the Singapore British intelligence MI5 branch), had said in 1962, that, “In spite of intensive investigations, no evidence has been obtained of CPM directions to open United Front workers as to how they should carry out their activities.” “At present they are united only in their dissatisfactions with the PAP Government, and they cannot be considered to form a monolithic Communist edifice under strict Party management.” It is thus clear that there was no “communist insurgency” in Singapore, as the PAP government has continuously claimed. Not only are such claims not historically backed up, but the PAP government’s own engagement with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is contrary to its own claims against communist beliefs. The PAP government’s cooperation with the CCP thus either poses a threat to Singapore or its claims of communist insurgency is thus a ploy to quell the “dissatisfactions with the PAP Government”, which they had so feared.
Posted on: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 09:53:21 +0000
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