Fong Chong Pik also known as "Fang Chuang Pi", was a Malayan

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 and Malaysian politician. He was the leader of the Singapore section of the Communist Party of Malaya.

Fong Chong Pik was given the nickname "The Plen" (for "plenipotentiary

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") in the 1950s by his then political nemesis, Lee Kuan Yew

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Lee Kuan Yew, GCMG, CH is a Singaporean statesman. He was the first Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore, governing for three decades...

. In 1997, he urged Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

's government to let former insurgents return to the country.

Sources

• news story from 1997