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Lee Hsien Yang has turned a personal vendetta into an international smear campaign against his father, family and country, said the Singapore government on Thursday (Oct 31). The statement comes after Lee's interview with the Associated Press (AP) publisheLee Hsien Yang waging 'personal vendetta' against his family and his country: Govt
Lee Hsien Yang has turned a personal vendetta into an international smear campaign against his father, family and country, said the Singapore government on Thursday (Oct 31). The statement comes after Lee's interview with the Associated Press (AP) published on Thursday, where he claimed that Singapore has become much more repressive in the decade since the death of his father, founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. In the interview with the American news outlet, Lee, who was recently granted political asylum in the UK, said: «Singapore has this veneer that purports to be a sort of affluent, democratic, free country. The veneer is quite thin,» «Beneath that there is a repressive nature to that regime and there are people fleeing from it.» Addressing Lee's claims, the Singapore government on Thursday (Oct 31) noted that Lee, 67, was a «major beneficiary of the Singapore system». Read more