12-22-2019, 07:56 PM
** 22-Dec-2019 World View: Hong Kong protesters show solidarity with Uighurs in concentration camps
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After seven months, this week's pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong
took a different twist. About 1,000 people gathered peacefully,
waving Uighur flags and posters. One protester shouted through a
loutspeaker:
A mixed crowd of young and elderly people, dressed in black and
wearing masks to shield their identities, held up signs reading “Free
Uyghur, Free Hong Kong” and “Fake ‘autonomy’ in China results in
genocide”.
It's believed that over a million Muslim Uighurs in East Turkestan
(Xinjiang) have been arrested, confined to concentation camps, and either
killed or forced into slave labor.
If the Hong Kong protesters continue to identify with the Uighurs,
that will present even more severe problems for the Chinese Communist
Party (CCP).
Riot police broke up the peaceful demonstration with pepper spray, and
the protesters responded by hurling glass bottles and rocks at them.
---- Sources:
-- Hong Kong protesters rally against China's Uighur crackdown
https://www.dw.com/en/hong-kong-proteste...a-51771541
(Deutsche Welle, 22-Dec-2019)
-- Clashes as police try to clear Hong Kong protesters after Uighur
support rally
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongk...SKBN1YQ076
(Reuters, 22-Dec-2019)
- A police officer during a rally in Hong Kong on Sunday in
support of the Uighurs (AFP)
After seven months, this week's pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong
took a different twist. About 1,000 people gathered peacefully,
waving Uighur flags and posters. One protester shouted through a
loutspeaker:
Quote: "We shall not forget those who share a common goal
with us, our struggle for freedom and democracy and the rage
against the Chinese Communist Party."
A mixed crowd of young and elderly people, dressed in black and
wearing masks to shield their identities, held up signs reading “Free
Uyghur, Free Hong Kong” and “Fake ‘autonomy’ in China results in
genocide”.
It's believed that over a million Muslim Uighurs in East Turkestan
(Xinjiang) have been arrested, confined to concentation camps, and either
killed or forced into slave labor.
If the Hong Kong protesters continue to identify with the Uighurs,
that will present even more severe problems for the Chinese Communist
Party (CCP).
Riot police broke up the peaceful demonstration with pepper spray, and
the protesters responded by hurling glass bottles and rocks at them.
---- Sources:
-- Hong Kong protesters rally against China's Uighur crackdown
https://www.dw.com/en/hong-kong-proteste...a-51771541
(Deutsche Welle, 22-Dec-2019)
-- Clashes as police try to clear Hong Kong protesters after Uighur
support rally
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongk...SKBN1YQ076
(Reuters, 22-Dec-2019)
