Duo recall the dark ages during Usno
Published on: Sat, Jul 12, 2025
By: Kan Yaw Chong Text Size: Yap with CL Chan and Chan at the book launch. Kota Kinabalu: It was a long-coming rendezvous between former fellow detainees at the infamous 'Kepayan Detention Camp', Datuk Yap Pak Leong and veteran journalist and editor, Chan Kang Yuen, both 90, at a book launch here, Thursday. It was for Chan's autobiography, 'Sixty Years in the Storms of Journalism', which was held at Daya Hotel. Recalling what he called those 'dark times', Yap, a former Minister of Labour and Environmental Development (1976-79) under the Berjaya Government said: 'I am sure you heard about the Kepayan Detention Camp. Chan and myself were there, for me it's two years and seven months, for Chan, 18 months. Those were dark times, we have suffered in Kepayan, we can forgive, not forget.' The period during Usno rule was labelled as Sabah's 'dark ages'. Subscribe or LOG IN to access this article.
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