Lee Kuan Yew on Singapore's separation from Malaysia in 1965 | From the archives

foreign [Music] you see this is a moment of you know every time we look back on this moment when we signed this agreement with several Singapore from Malaysia it will be a moment of anguish I mean for me it is a moment of Anguish because all my life thank you see the whole of my adult life I had believed in Malaysia in merger and the unity of these two territories you know as some people connected by geography economics and ties up kinship with your mind every stop for a while foreign but we will still do it and I asked him with this don't worry this was the government that believed in multi-racialism and brought Singapore away from chauvinism into multiracialism pity it turned out that we could not achieve multi-racialism and integration in Malaysia

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Published: Fri Sep 15 2023