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It started off peacefully, and I remember BBC news reported they only met to protest after office hours and weekends - I remember thinking: "wow, I guess day job takes precedence over protest in HK!". And no looting.
But now Beijing reportedly has sent out their goons in the forms of local Triads to beat these protesters bloody, and the police has increasingly been more and more violent in their handling of the protesters, so the protesters have changed tactics to flash-mob style so the authority couldn't preemptively block them ahead of time.
I feel for these protesters but I have little hope their protest will get anywhere other than bloodshed. The island is part of PRC after all, and you can tell from the more and more ominous warnings issued by Beijing that it's only a matter of time before Tiananmen-style massacre happens.
Of course Beijing is going to crackdown. They're not going to let the country see that they've lost control. They will let go it on a bit longer just so they can say they gave them a chance to protest and have their say but they need to restore order.
They vandalised Starbucks, Japanese sushi restaurants and Cantonese restaurants in HK under a HK company , Yoshinoya a Japanese rice bowl chain, bombs were thrown to banks of mainland Chinese background. A branch of DBS bank from Singapore was sprayed with anti Lee HL and PAP English words.
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Originally Posted by blahblahyoutoo
Millions participated in the protests and demonstrations over the course of several weeks.
How many stores were looted or burned down during that span?
The American media didn’t cover it in depth other than the break in at the govt building and the police firing rubber buckets and tear gas.
They vandalised Starbucks, Japanese sushi restaurants and Cantonese restaurants in HK under a HK company , Yoshinoya a Japanese rice bowl chain, bombs were thrown to banks of mainland Chinese background. A branch of DBS bank from Singapore was sprayed with anti Lee HL and PAP English words.
It's not like this was spontaneous. There have been three months of drama from the last time anyone posted in this thread till now and while I'm not happy about what's happening there right now, this rests squarely in the hands of the Beijing puppets who a) created this mess, b) failed to act properly and in a timely fashion on it, and c) were behind basically every escalation. Until the triads attacked protestors in the NT and were shaking hands with Junius Ho the protests were basically totally civil.
They vandalised Starbucks, Japanese sushi restaurants and Cantonese restaurants in HK under a HK company , Yoshinoya a Japanese rice bowl chain, bombs were thrown to banks of mainland Chinese background. A branch of DBS bank from Singapore was sprayed with anti Lee HL and PAP English words.
was there looting though?
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