Ebook: Dissident Voices : Personalities in Singapore's political history
Author: Clement Mesenas
- Tags: Singapore -- Politics and government.
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Private Limited
- City: Singapore, Singapore
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- epub
They stood firm on their convictions despite the odds. Some paid a heavy toll for their beliefs - deprivations, long prison terms, lonely lives in self-imposed exile. But they never broke. Some will say the unflinching attitude of these dissidents against what they perceived as coercive authority has been an exercise in futility. Yet other say the course of Singapores history might have been altered if their will had prevailed.Their stories need to be told. The first of its kind, this book will inform and educate. Rather than to glorify their tough stance, these memoirs are a record of human endurance. It exemplifies the extremes sacrifices some people will make in pursuit of their ideals. Written by veteran journalist and author Clement Mesenas, this book chronicles the lives of twenty of this countrys leading dissidents - including Lim Chin Siong, David Marshall and Ong Eng Guan, among many others.
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