“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.”

— Lee Kuan Yew

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
1960s

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First Prime Minister of Singapore 1923–2015

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