Poh Soo Kai (Chinese: 傅樹介; pinyin: Fù Shùjiè; born February 5, 1930) is a Singaporean medical doctor, politician, political prisoner.
[1] His family fled Singapore before the Japanese invasion and landed in Mumbai, he studied at a Catholic mission school for four years.
Poh and his family returned to Singapore after the Japanese surrender in 1945, continued his studies at Raffles Institution and entered the University of Malaya in 1950.
[4][6] Based on his own recollection and records of the UK government, he provided a new perspective on key events in the political development of Singapore.
His thesis is that Lee Kuan Yew's main purpose in seeking independence in conjunction with the merger with the Federation of Malaysia was to leverage the Malaysian government to immobilize his left-wing opponents.