SINGAPORE: On Sunday (Aug 6), Ho Ching shared a rather pointed post on social media.
She shared a post by FB user Dodinsky who said: “Just because someone is “family” doesn’t mean you have to tolerate lies, chaos, drama, manipulation and disrespect”.
Mdm Ho’s post struck a chord among netizens, who drew their own conclusions.
Here’s what they said:
The longstanding family feud between the Lee siblings is no secret. Lee Hsien Yang, the younger brother of PM Lee Hsien Loong, has left Singapore and lives in an undisclosed location in Europe with his wife, senior lawyer Lee Suet Fern.
The Lee family dispute first came into the public domain in 2017, two years after Mr Lee Kuan Yew died. The rift widened when the authorities took action against Mr Lee Hsien Yang’s wife and son, who were suspended from legal practice and found guilty of contempt of court, respectively.
Mr Lee Hsien Yang has previously expressed that he was “made a fugitive by my own country” just for standing up for his late father’s last wishes. He added that his family had paid the price for his convictions.
Indicating that the latest price the family has paid is their inability to be with Ms Lee Suet Fern’s father in his final moments.
The family’s self-imposed exile has had a number of repercussions. Mr Lee had said earlier that he is heartbroken that he cannot be with his “extremely unwell” sister Lee Wei Ling, who revealed in 2020 that she is battling progressive supranuclear palsy.
The younger Mr Lee said: “Wei Ling never married, and because we are close, it fell on my shoulders to look after her after our father passed away in 2015. In 2019, she was diagnosed with a serious illness. I was so glad that just before Covid in 2020, I was able to take her to Machu Picchu, a place she had always wanted to visit.”
Adding that he may never return to Singapore, he said: “She is now extremely unwell. It pains me beyond words that I am unlikely ever to be able to see my sister face to face again.”