For 60 Years, Malaysia Remembered Kicking Singapore Out: The Declassified Files Say Both Sides Agreed To Let It Go
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Declassified documents confirm that Singapore's separation from Malaysia in 1965 was not an expulsion but a covert 25-day operation engineered primarily by Singapore's Finance Minister Goh Keng Swee — without the full knowledge of his own Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew.
From the original report
On the morning of 9 August 1965, the late Lee Kuan Yew sat before a television camera and wept.
The cameras rolled, the image travelled.
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This is a brief of a report by another newsroom. The excerpt below is from the original.
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- Sep 16, 2026
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