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Re: The Tunku Spills The Beans On Singapore's Split From Malaysia and LKY (long excer
LKY was really afraid that the Tunku or his people could have him arrested during Separation that he took refuge at the Govt Bungalows in Changi which was then within the RAF Changi Airbase complex, a place where British troops still maintained security. The public could not go pass into Netheravon Rd where the Brits had a security checkpoint. The particular chalet LKY and his family stayed was the same one which President Nair later stayed when he had his ("ahem") episode with the wigs.....
True - the Tunku may not have had wanted to arrest LKY, but the same could not be said for people like Syed Jafaar Albar, the Sec-Gen of UMNO.
From Wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed_Jaafar_Albar
The Malaysian Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, eventually tired of the bickering and told Singapore to secede from Malaysia. The matter was hushed up, with not even the UMNO Members of Parliament such as Albar being informed of what 9 August 1965 Parliamentary session would be concerned about. When Albar demanded more information on why their presence was demanded, he was rebuffed. Upon discovering that day itself that the purpose of the meeting was to allow Singapore to secede, Albar left Parliament House, not participating in the final unanimous vote. As this was directly contrary to his orders, the Tunku insisted on sacking Albar as UMNO Secretary-General, but was later persuaded to permit Albar to graciously resign instead.
Albar was opposed to the idea of allowing Singapore to secede, because he felt that imposing emergency rule over Singapore and removing Lee as Prime Minister would have been an ideal solution. Before secession, he had vocally called for Lee to be arrested for destroying racial harmony through his "Malaysian Malaysia" campaign, which the Malays saw as threatening the special rights granted to them under Article 153 of the Constitution.
LKY was really afraid that the Tunku or his people could have him arrested during Separation that he took refuge at the Govt Bungalows in Changi which was then within the RAF Changi Airbase complex, a place where British troops still maintained security. The public could not go pass into Netheravon Rd where the Brits had a security checkpoint. The particular chalet LKY and his family stayed was the same one which President Nair later stayed when he had his ("ahem") episode with the wigs.....
True - the Tunku may not have had wanted to arrest LKY, but the same could not be said for people like Syed Jafaar Albar, the Sec-Gen of UMNO.
From Wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed_Jaafar_Albar
The Malaysian Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, eventually tired of the bickering and told Singapore to secede from Malaysia. The matter was hushed up, with not even the UMNO Members of Parliament such as Albar being informed of what 9 August 1965 Parliamentary session would be concerned about. When Albar demanded more information on why their presence was demanded, he was rebuffed. Upon discovering that day itself that the purpose of the meeting was to allow Singapore to secede, Albar left Parliament House, not participating in the final unanimous vote. As this was directly contrary to his orders, the Tunku insisted on sacking Albar as UMNO Secretary-General, but was later persuaded to permit Albar to graciously resign instead.
Albar was opposed to the idea of allowing Singapore to secede, because he felt that imposing emergency rule over Singapore and removing Lee as Prime Minister would have been an ideal solution. Before secession, he had vocally called for Lee to be arrested for destroying racial harmony through his "Malaysian Malaysia" campaign, which the Malays saw as threatening the special rights granted to them under Article 153 of the Constitution.
