If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 yea…

Lee Kuan Yew
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If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it. ✨ The Straits Times, August 17, 2004.
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If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it. ✨ The Straits Times, August 17, 2004.

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