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Home / World / Hong Kong Extradition Law: Organizers call for 2 million protesters for calling for the leader's resignation
Hong Kong Extradition Law: Organizers call for 2 million protesters for calling for the leader's resignation
June 17, 2019	World 3 Views
Both workers 'and students' strikes were scheduled on Monday, and hundreds of demonstrators were still near the central government office in the Admiralty. The demonstrators have made it clear that if the government does not take any further action, either with resignations from key officials or if they completely withdraw the bill, they will go back to the streets.
They could not have been more wrong.
The organizers Around 2 million people joined the march, exceeding the 1.03 million last week. A sea of ​​black-clad demonstrators filled the streets between the starting point in Victoria Park and the Legislative in the Admiralty. It took more than eight hours for the last group of demonstrators to reach the endpoint.
Many of those present said they felt compelled to march on Sunday after seeing pictures of bloody demonstrators at previous demonstrations. Many carried signs saying "Stop Killing Us" and "Civilian, No Headshot Please". Others wore white bouquets to honor a man who had died after falling from a building on Saturday.
According to police, 338,000 people followed the original path of protest. However, at least three additional roads on both sides were filled with demonstrators, and photos of the streets showed a much larger crowd than last week or in March 2003, the city's biggest protests to date under Chinese rule.
The mood on Sunday March was completely different from that in the angry and tense scenes on Wednesday, when the demonstrators took control of important roads around the legislature and held them until they were cleared by the police with tear gas, pepper spray and rubber bullets ,
In a clear change of tactics, surveillance around the Sunday march was almost invisible. The officers who could be seen were not dressed in riot gear and mainly followed the traffic management.
The demonstrators were also not prepared for difficulties, almost none wore facepieces and only a tiny minority had helmets and other protective clothing.
When small groups tried to provoke a stronger reaction outside central government headquarters, they were shouted down by the rest of the crowd: "Keep the peace."
An icon of democracy in Hong Kong, Joshua Wong was released from prison on Monday after serving a month in prison for two months in connection with protests in 201
] "It really is a good time to join the fight for freedom and democracy," he told CNN after his release. "Five years ago, after the Umbrella Movement ended, we claimed we were back, with two million people taking to the streets yesterday … showing that the Hong Kong people are realizing that this is a long-term struggle."
Wong reiterated the protesters & # 39; calls on the Beijing-backed city leader to resign.
"Why did Carrie Lam have to wait to suspend the bill until one million people took to the streets because she was not elected by the people of Hong Kong," he said. "It's time for her to resign."
Wong added that he thought Beijing must witness the chaos in Hong Kong – amid the US-China trade war and other headaches for President Xi Jinping – and think about Lamb's future.
"Hong Kong is just a small international city with seven million inhabitants, but two million people took to the streets, which shows that we have the consensus," he said. "She has to end her political career."
Wong predicted that the protests could continue, particularly on July 1, the anniversary of the transfer of the city from the British to the Chinese government and, if the law is not fully withdrawn and important officials resign. An important annual date for Democratically friendly demonstrations.
Massive Turnout
On Saturday, Lam, the executive director, said Passage of The Bill will be suspended and a second reading canceled this month. There was no timetable for resuming discussion, Lam said, noting that this was unlikely to happen this year.
Such a delay would likely undermine the bill in its present form, since 2020 is an election year in Hong Kong and directly elected pro-government legislators have already warned that the controversy over the law might cost them their seats.
In 2003, a law to combat sedition, which had previously provoked the biggest protests in Hong Kong since the transfer of Chinese rule in 1997, was first suspended before it was finally abandoned altogether.
In light of another major protest against their handling of the bill, Lam rarely apologized on Sunday evening that "deficiencies" in government work had led to "considerable controversy and social strife", leading to disappointment and grief among the citizens of Hong Kong.
A statement by the Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF), organizers of the recent protest, said Sunday that the Hong Kong people would protest until the government completely withdraws the extradition law. "Should the government refuse to respond "On Monday, only Hong Kongers will go on strike," said the CHRF Those demonstrators who stayed out overnight had a short break Monday morning. The demonstrators finally agreed to leave the main street of Harcourt and resume traffic. They occupied a side street next to c instead of state offices. Both these offices and the city's legislature were closed on Mondays.
Legal Concerns
Although Hong Kong is part of China, there is another legal system – a concept called "one country, two systems".
Pro-democracy figures The law, which was championed by the pro-Beijing Lam government, would lead to erosion of civil rights in Hong Kong, including freedom of expression and freedom, Fernando Cheung said Thursday. "We no longer have the rule of law, our own autonomy."
Throughout the debate, Lam stated that the draft law is necessary to ensure that Hong Kong does not become a refuge for refugees fleeing the justice system in mainland China.
] Hong Kong's Legislative Council is due to go into summer recess on July 20, before returning in October.
Sandi Sidhu, Olivia Tam, Steve Chao and Lily Lee of CNN contributed to the coverage.
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