| The complete video that is banned in Singapore. Filmmaker Martyn See, who was under investigation last year for a documentary about an opposition leader, said he was surprised by the ban. He said the film, produced at the end of 2005, had been approved twice last year with a PG rating. When it was not shown at the 2006 Singapore International Film Festival, as he expected, See applied for an exhibition license to screen it publicly. "I don't know what changed. Maybe different people with different views watched it this time," See told The Associated Press. "I based my questions to Said on his first book [Dark clouds at dawn: A political memoir], which is sold in Singapore. So what is in the film is not something the government didn't know." He said he had been ordered by the censorship board to surrender all copies of the film by Wednesday afternoon. See said that Said is the only one of those detained in the 1960s under the Internal Security Act who is willing to speak publicly about his experience. "I wanted to show another side of Singapore's history," See said of his reason for making the film. | |
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