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Thu, 09/29/2011 - 17:50
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SINGAPORE REJECTS CALL FOR COMMISSION OF INQUIRY BY 16 EX-ISA DETAINEES
SINGAPORE, Sept 29 (Bernama) -- Singapore has rejected a call by the 16 former detainees to set up a commission of inquiry to investigate their detentions under the Internal Security Act (ISA).
In a statement in response to the call, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said the government saw no reason to conduct a review now, more than 20 years after the event, via a Commission of Inquiry.
MHA said detentions under the ISA were made for valid security reasons and properly dealt with according to the law.
It said every case was reviewed at that time by the Advisory Board chaired by a Supreme Court judge.
According to MHA, the subversion and violence of the Communist insurgency from the 1940s to the 1970s were a historical reality.
"The government’s actions against the Marxist plot in the late 1980s were fully explained and justified at the time, and extensively debated in Parliament.
"These actual situations and events which were real threats to Singapore’s security cannot simply be dismissed as “rhetoric”, as the ex-detainees now try to do," the statement said.
In a statement in response to the call, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said the government saw no reason to conduct a review now, more than 20 years after the event, via a Commission of Inquiry.
MHA said detentions under the ISA were made for valid security reasons and properly dealt with according to the law.
It said every case was reviewed at that time by the Advisory Board chaired by a Supreme Court judge.
According to MHA, the subversion and violence of the Communist insurgency from the 1940s to the 1970s were a historical reality.
"The government’s actions against the Marxist plot in the late 1980s were fully explained and justified at the time, and extensively debated in Parliament.
"These actual situations and events which were real threats to Singapore’s security cannot simply be dismissed as “rhetoric”, as the ex-detainees now try to do," the statement said.
