"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

January 1, 1970

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when Lee announced the separation of Singapore from Malaysia (9 August 1965), as quoted in The Theatre and the State in Singapore: Orthodoxy and Resistance, Terence Chong