Dreaded raid in the dead of night

IT was a terrifying moment for Dr Chee Heng Leng (pic) when they came for her in the middle of the night.

The 62-year-old retired Universiti Pertanian Malaysia (UPM, now Universiti Putra Malaysia) lecturer and social activist was pursuing her PhD at the time of the crackdown in 1987 and remembers the ordeal as a time of fear and anguish.

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