The rift in Singapore’s first family turns even nastier
Lee Kuan Yew wanted no memorials but bequeathed a family feud
WHEN LEE KUAN YEW died in 2015, many recalled how he reacted to the idea that a monument should be raised to him. “Remember Ozymandias!” Singapore’s founding prime minister had said, referring to Shelley’s sonnet about a great pharaoh memorialised, in the end, only by a broken statue in a desert. Lee wanted no monument apart from a thriving Singapore.
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