When the British announced the withdrawal of their navy from Singapore in 1967, a Dutch adviser from the United Nations, Albert Winsemius, offered the Singapore government two pieces of advice.
The first was to crush the communists:
I am not interested in what you do with them. You can throw them in jail, throw them out of the country, you can even kill them.
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