Singapore politicians hurl insults in court
Reuter said:
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore politicians hurled insults and clashed over transparency in the city-state in a court case on Tuesday.Former leader Lee Kuan Yew, 84, and his son, the current Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, took the stand as part of a hearing to determine defamation damages against the opposition Singapore Democratic Party and its leader Chee Soon Juan, who is not a member of a parliament dominated by Lee’s party.
“He is near psychopath,” Lee Kuan Yew said of Chee Soon Juan.
“I don’t think even Solomon would be able to mediate between a psychopath and sane rational people,” he said, referring to the biblical King Solomon.
“I don’t hate you, I feel sorry for you, I think you cut a pitiable figure,” said Chee of Lee Kuan Yew.
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