The Malaysian Insider, 20 Jan 2012A retired soldier claimed today that Malaysian soldiers had been discriminated against and cheated out of their rightful salaries since 1963, naming in a suit filed today former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and three Malaysian prime ministers among others as being responsible.
Tengku Zainal Abidin Tengku Yusoff, 58, claimed the armed forces were discriminated against because they were the only service excluded when a royal commission was set up in February 1964 to review civil service pay. Full story
