""In the end we find that there are only two courses open to us: to take repressive measures against the Singapore government or their leaders for the behaviour of some of their leaders, and the course of action we are taking now, to sever with the state government of Singapore that has ceased to give a measure of loyalty to the central government." - Tunku Abdul Rahman, 9 August 1965, explained to parliament in Kuala Lumpur on Singapore separation from Malaysia, in the first reading of a resolution to pass the Constitution of Malaysia (Singapore Amendment) Bill, 1965."