Singapore Democrats, 20 Jan 2009
"Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty we're free at last!" And so the prescient words of the American Negro spiritual cascaded from the lips of Martin Luther King Jr.
1963 was a time when the civil rights leader inspired a generation of Americans to overcome injustice with truth, oppression with defiance, hate with love. He appealed to the “better angels” of his fellow Americans.
That same year in Singapore Mr Lee Kuan Yew ordered the mass arrests of his political opponents as the crackdown against democracy went into full swing under Operation Cold Store.
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