Tiananmen veterans view Hong Kong’s crisis with fatalism

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Veterans of Tiananmen Square in 1989 are watching Hong Kong's young protesters carefully

learned the hard way that the Communist Party of China will shed blood to enforce its will. As an activist during the democracy protests of 1989, he stood in a rumour-swept Tiananmen Square in early June and assured fearful comrades that, as a former soldier turned railway electrician, he was sure that the People’s Liberation Army would never shoot fellow Chinese.

Mr Han has much to lose. Hong Kong’s Western-style freedoms have not just offered him a haven. They allow him to run China Labour Bulletin, an organisation that campaigns for the rights of workers on the mainland. Yet for all that, he finds himself rethinking his advice to Occupy protesters to remain moderate. “During Occupy, I felt my experience in Tiananmen Square counted,” Mr Han says. He now thinks his words of caution were “just bullshit” and an arrogant, “dinosaur kind of thinking”.

 

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Tens of thousands of Hong Kong people gathered in the city's CBD tonight to voice support for the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, which will be discussed and voted in the US Congress on Tuesday. This Act is an essential first step to protect the freedom of HKers. HK

roncerod From Stalemate to Checkmate... CH to give up HK and transfer financial center elsewhere in the mainland?

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why? because they also were failures under western instruction?

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Why do you say the crisis must get much worse of it doesn't get better? Is democratic protest against tyranny bad for business then?

terror leads to terror, the fact Hong Kong's attackers don't know.

If Hong Kong falls...

看你麻痹,你妈炸了,你能不能发点其他的东西,看China 的都看犯了,你能不能发点其他的,89年人watch你妈被trump强奸

64 can be called democratic demonstrations but HK is totally different. For 64, no one wear masks all the time, destroying everywhere, beating others for different view, and most important, begging UK and US nationality. Admitted, those riots in HK only hate their Chinese blood.

The violent demonstrations in Hong Kong have helped people to learn more about the 8964 incident.

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