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toastykittenOk, so it didn't have to be a movement. If the CCP had just showed a willingness to bend, and to let Hong Kong govern themselves, I don't think they would be here today where every Hong Kong resident knows the smell of teargas, and now associates the once-venerated Hong Kong Police Force with triads and gangsters.
Yesterday was China's National Day, to celebrate the formation of the modern Chinese Communist government. In Beijing marches were held and vibrant costumes were shown off. In Hong Kong it was a national day of mourning - police used a live round on an 18 year old and shot him in the chest (fortunately he is alive and recovering), blinded an Indonesian reporter and aimed their loaded guns at people.
There are now calls for the disbandment of the Hong Kong Police Force.
In certain ways I can't believe it, because I am so used to cops being so idolized here in the US, that murder by them is just a matter of course. (Maybe not for much longer.) But for Hong Kongers, the violence of the police was so unthinkable that such a betrayal of the people that it is unsustainable and intolerable.
Would that it were the same here.
Yesterday was China's National Day, to celebrate the formation of the modern Chinese Communist government. In Beijing marches were held and vibrant costumes were shown off. In Hong Kong it was a national day of mourning - police used a live round on an 18 year old and shot him in the chest (fortunately he is alive and recovering), blinded an Indonesian reporter and aimed their loaded guns at people.
There are now calls for the disbandment of the Hong Kong Police Force.
In certain ways I can't believe it, because I am so used to cops being so idolized here in the US, that murder by them is just a matter of course. (Maybe not for much longer.) But for Hong Kongers, the violence of the police was so unthinkable that such a betrayal of the people that it is unsustainable and intolerable.
Would that it were the same here.
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