Point-by-Point rebuttal to Ministry of Home Affairs’ statement

By the Singapore Democratic Party

Below is a reply by Dr Chee Soon Juan to the Ministry of Home Affairs’ statement dated 20 December 2006.

Point 1: Marking of food trays.

MHA: It is normal Prisons procedure to record the food consumption of inmates under close watch. This procedure applies not just to Chee Soon Juan but to all such inmates.

CSJ: When the question of the marking was first raised by my wife, Ms Huang Chih Mei, and sister, Ms Chee Siok Chin, on 4/12/2006, Monday, both Mr Chandra Kumar (MHA official) and Queenstown Remand Prison (QRP) Superintendent Hoon categorically denied that prisoners’ trays were marked, unless it’s for vegetarian food. I am not a vegetarian. If it is the “normal” practice to mark the food trays of inmates under close watch, why did Mr Chandra Kumar and Mr Hoon say they had no knowledge of the marking?

Dr Chee Hospitalized whilst Imprisoned

By Yap Keng Ho

The health and live of Dr. Chee Soon Juan is on top of my worries right now.
Dr. Chee was imprisoned together with me and Mr. Gandhi Ambalam, after all 3 of us were sentenced on 23.Nov.2006. He was feeling sick and throwing up his food after his initial prison meals, and had stopped eating in prison since Sunday 26.Nov.2006. He lost 5kg of his body weight since his imprisonment. On 3.Dec.2006 the prison sent Dr. Chee to Changi General Hospital after finding him with signs of internal bleeding.

SDP’s News Release

I had repeated demanded to see Dr. Chee when I was in the same prison, but the prison repeatedly refuse to let me see him. After I was informed that Dr. Chee was ill in prison, I stepped up my own HungerStrike while in prison, by stopping all eating and drinking until the prison will let me see Dr. Chee, but they still won’t even let me speak with Dr. Chee on intercom.

My Blog News Release

When the prison was processing me for release on 2.Dec.2006, I had once refused to leave the prison unless they would let me see Dr. Chee. Still they won’t let me see Dr. Chee, and the prison superintendent came to give me assurance that they will take care of Dr. Chee’s health, so I didn’t make a scene to have the guards having to force me out of prison, and I walked out.

I went on total HungerStrike between 1530hr 30.Nov.2006 to 1000hr 2.Dec.2006, which were the 8th & 9th & 10th days of my imprisonment. I was released about 0955hr 2.Dec.2006, and took my first fruit juice after meeting with other activists outside the prison. I stepped down the level of my HungerStrike since that had not forced the prison to let me see Dr. Chee while I was inside.

I repeatedly asked the officers and doctor of prison about the health & well being of Dr. Chee, but they won’t give me any useful information.

The very next day after my release, 3.Dec.2006 Dr. Chee was transferred from prison to hospital.

I am very angry about this. Unlike myself Dr. Chee did not take a HungerStrike, and yet he had lost 5kg. I lost only 4kg in my 10 days imprisonment, and my HungerStrike still proceeding in liquid diet form.

Being found to have blood traces in his urine; suffering unusual pains and in deyhdration are very bad signs. The prison kept delaying the news and keeping us in the dark about it is being very irresponsible. Not giving us access to Dr. Chee while he is so ill is very brutal and inhuman. The world’s human rights organizations must be alerted to this.

Now that I am out of the prison myself, I will do whatever I can to help Dr. Chee & Mr. Gandhi from outside. Mr. Gandhi’s health is also bad in that he have heart problems. Posting on this blog is one of the things I can do to help.

k.h.yap

[wishing cards & letters can be sent to Dr. Chee Soon Juan C/O Queenstown Remand Prison, 50 Jalan Penjara, Singapore 149373]

Singapore must not go for a cheap reform

By Yap Keng Ho

People hoping for a better Singapore recognized that we need changes or some sort of reforming. But may I liken that with doing a RENOVATION to our house or our homeland?

I am asking Singaporeans not to go for a cheap renovation.

Singapore is our home not just for us but for our children and grandchildren and many more generations of future citizens. When we reform or renovate our homeland, we must have more foresight, and not just hoping to get things done via the easiest ways or the cheapest ways. When we have to pay the necessary price for this reform or renovation we better take it more seriously.

A cheap reform avoiding to pay the necessary price will not give our future Singaproeans, our own children and grandchildren a Singapore good enough. They future citizens will suffer from our cheap reform or cheap renovation just only because we did not pay the right price for it.

I am now writing this because Chilean dictator Pinochet just died, and the Sammyboymod forum discussed about LKy’s death. I am going to liken that LKy is a defect in our homeland which is a major reason that we need a reform or renovation, it is like a broken or choked toilet that shit can not be flushed down, requiring an urgent FIX. The son of this broken toilet however want to fix the oppoisition ironically.

There are many problems beside LKy but in one way or another related to LKy since he singlehandedly ruled Singaproe for almost entire 40 years of national history. Ass Loong Son is liken to be the failed electrical circuit / wiring of our home, while his wife Ho Jinx is liken to the water pipe which is seriously leaking precious water by billion dollars.

The PAp LEEgime; Kangaroo Judiciary; 146th Media; Crony NTUC union; Puppet President; Broken Economy; Hollow CPF; Scandaled NKF; Bleeding GIC GRC… they are liken to our cracked walls; falling ceiling; missing floor tiles; windows that fell down the block of flat; jammed doors and rotton kitchen cabinets etc.

Singapore badly needs a reform / renovation, but I am asking fellow Singaporeans not to go for a cheap one.

Our own children and grandchildren need to live here, so lets do a good and proper one.

Many had hoped for LKy to die soon, so that changes can become possible. I am saying don’t wait for the choked toilet to overflow, lets begin the renovation now and wait no further.

We have to hack out and remove all the bad things and wrong things thoroughly, there is no need to be reminiscence about these old rotton things any more. Then after hacking and removal, we start to re-built anew our Singapore. It is surely going to cost us the necessary price, and we must be willing to pay that, because this country is ours and not the famLEE’s.

If we don’t carry out a major renovation, there will be no solution by just doing a few minor touch-up here & there every now and then. It will not fix our root cause and not address any real problems. This is what I ask fellow Singaporeans to recognize properly.

It is surely cheaper to go without a proper renovation, by just doing minor touch-up here & there. But here will be countless such touch-ups necessary every now and then, because the root cause is not fixed and problems still will surface up everywhere so often after countless number of touching up. Lets get real and do the real reform once and for all!

Lets dig out the root cause, and fix our homeland properly. Reform & Renovate our Rep of Singapore.