Lee Kuan Yew family feud deepens: grandsons weigh in as Singapore PM’s brother questions his pledge to stay out of home decision
Sibling of Lion City Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong accuses him of ‘sophistry’ in representation to government committee – and says friends have suffered ‘serious repercussions’ due to acrimony
A little known government committee working behind the scenes to evaluate the future of the century-old, spartan bungalow where Singapore’s late founding leader Lee Kuan Yew lived for seven decades has been thrust into the spotlight amid a bitter public squabble among his three children that erupted this week.
Two of the political patriarch’s grandsons meanwhile used Facebook to weigh in on the saga a day after it broke into public view in dramatic fashion.
The 59-year-old Lee Hsien Yang, Lee Kuan Yew’s youngest child, on Wednesday shocked the country after revealing plans to go into self-exile, saying that he and his sister had faced harassment from their elder brother Lee Hsien Loong, the current prime minister, over the fate of the house.
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The two younger siblings had said the premier was bent on preserving the house as a way to “milk Lee Kuan Yew’s legacy”, contrary to their father’s wishes for his house to be demolished after his death.
And a day after making these claims – through an early morning news release – Lee Hsien Yang said some of his friends had suffered “serious repercussions” because of the acrimony among the siblings over the house.
“They [his friends] don’t want to be identified and they don’t want the issue to be raised. But there have been…a number of incidents which have caused hurt and pain to people,” the veteran corporate leader and former military general told Yahoo! Singapore.