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For me, it is a moment of anguish. All my life, my whole adult life, I believed in merger and unity of the two territories.
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August 9, 1965, when Lee announced the separation of Singapore from Malaysia, as quoted in The Theatre and the State in Singapore: Orthodoxy and Resistance, Terence Chong

 

Lee Kuan Yew

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