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WOMEN IN THE
MALAYAN ANTI-
COLONIAL STRUGGLE
Distorted history :
primary school history textbook
presented the official version of
how Singapore and Malaysia
gained their independence from
the British
We were taught to be grateful to
our colonial master and to be
proud to our goverment for the
way our indendence was given to
us.
Different story :
People in Singapore and Malaysia were suffereunder the "White
Terror" campaigns of our respective goverment
Women from SIngapore and Malaysia do not recogise the
territorial boundaries between the two nation, they decide to
join a liberation movement to fight for the independence.
