An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
The outbreak of World War Two put Lee's plans to travel to England for further study on hold. In February 1942, the British colonial army surrendered to the invading Japanese, starting a "reign of terror". Lee narrowly escaped being rounded up and killed in the Sook Ching massacre, one of the most large-scale atrocities of the occupation years. He later said he believed between 50,000 and 100,000 people had died, and that the British failure to prevent the massacre was further proof that Singaporeans should be free to rule themselves.
During the war, he went on to work as a Japanese interpreter and ran his own black market glue business.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31514860
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24-03-2015, 05:30 PM
BBC's report on LKY death
