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Rights of people not for PAP to give-Reply to Straits Times
05 April 2000
Ms Chua Lee Hoong claims that she cannot understand why
I criticised the PAP Government's idea of a free speech venue
("Speakers' corner a test of whether people will listen," ST, 22 Mar
2000). Singaporeans must never forget that our rights to freedom
of speech, assembly and association is not for the PAP to give. They
belong to us as much as our bodies and our minds belong to us. Take them
away and we become lesser, or even non, humans. The proposed
speakers' corner is not a right that we have claimed, but a concession
that the PAP, with whatever motives,
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Vanished? Chee replies
05 March 2000
Your ability to misinform your readers never fails to
amaze. Ms Chua Lee Hoong wrote that I had "vanished into the obscurity
of the international lecture circuit." (ST, 18 March). This completely
ignores the fact that my colleagues and I have been actively continuing
our work for democracy in this country. It is your newspaper that has
tried to create this impression of me being absent from the local
political scenario by refusing to publish the SDP's press statements,
announcements and replies. Upon my return from Australia at the
end of 1998 after the publicati
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SDP appeals for help on behalf of East Timorese in Singapore
23 September 1999
There are 18 refugees from East Timor who are currently
in Singapore and are awaiting entry into Darwin, Australia. Their
houses and other belongings have been completely destroyed or stolen by
the pro-Jakarta militia in East Timor. Two of the refugees only narrowly
escaped the violence when the house of Bishop Carlos Belo, from whom
they were seeking shelter, was looted and burned down. The group, which
include children and infants, fled from Dili when the chaos began
immediately after the referendum vote. Our friends from East Timor
are in need of funds for acc
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SDP says go ahead with presidential voting
13 August 1999
Mr Lee Kuan Yew's statement that the "president cannot
act independently of the government other than to block it" further
complicates the issue of the elected presidency. How is the President
going to block the government if he doesn't act independently? The
Senior Minister's views on the role of the elected president have
stirred up much confusion and controversy. Is the President an elected
one with his own set of powers, limited as they maybe, or is he a
ceremonial one where he cannot act independently? Whatever he is, he
cannot be both. With the Government t
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