Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: Bayan Jafananci sun mika wuya ga Allies a ranar 15 ga Agusta 1945, Singapore ta shiga cikin tashin hankali da rikici; fashi da kashe-kashe sun yadu. Sojojin Burtaniya karkashin jagorancin Lord Louis Mountbatten, Babban Kwamandan Sojojin da ke Kudu maso Gabashin Asiya, sun koma Singapore don karɓar mika wuya na sojojin Japan a yankin daga Janar Itagaki Seishiro a madadin Janar Hisaichi Terauchi a ranar 12 ga Satumba, 1945, kuma an kafa Hukumar Sojojin Burtaniya don gudanar da tsibirin har zuwa Maris 1946. Yawancin abubuwan more rayuwa sun lalace a lokacin yaƙin, gami da tsarin samar da wutar lantarki da ruwa, sabis na tarho, da kuma kayan aikin tashar jiragen ruwa a tashar jiragen ruwa ta Singapore. Akwai kuma karancin abinci da ke jawo rashin abinci mai gina jiki, cuta, da kuma aikata laifi da kuma nuna ƙarfi. Babban farashin abinci, rashin aikin yi, da rashin jin daɗin ma'aikata sun ƙare a cikin jerin yaƙe-yaƙe a cikin 1947 wanda ya haifar da dakatar da zirga-zirgar jama'a da sauran ayyuka. A ƙarshen 1947, tattalin arzikin ya fara farfadowa, wanda buƙatun da ake buƙata na tin da roba a duniya ya sauƙaƙe, amma zai ɗauki wasu shekaru kafin tattalin arzikin ya dawo zuwa matakan kafin yaƙin. Rashin nasarar Burtaniya don kare Singapore ya lalata amincinsa a matsayin mai mulki marar kuskure a idanun 'yan Singapore. Shekaru da dama bayan yakin ya ga farkawar siyasa a tsakanin jama'ar yankin da kuma tashe-tashen hankulan masu adawa da mulkin mallaka da kuma kishin kasa, wanda taken Merdeka, ko " 'yancin kai " a cikin yaren Malay. 'Yan Burtaniya, a nasu bangaren, a shirye suke don a hankali su kara mulkin kai ga Singapore da Malaya. A ranar 1 ga Afrilu 1946, an rushe Settlements Settlements kuma Singapore ta zama Masarautar Masarauta ta daban tare da gwamnatin farar hula karkashin jagorancin Gwamna. A watan Yulin 1947, an kafa Majalisar zartarwa da Majalisar Dokoki daban-daban kuma an shirya zaben mambobi shida na Majalisar Dokoki a shekara mai zuwa.  Tambaya: Menene Merdeka yake nufi?
'yancin kai'