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Solidarity With Lights

2137 | Pacific Place, Admiralty
Five hours into the ceremony, citizens light up bridges with phone flashlights. Meanwhile, the queue to the memorial site remains long.

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Riot Police Show Up to Disrupt Mourning for Leung

23:32 | Pacific Place, #Admiralty

This video shows the mannerism of the riot police as they rushed on site to force civilians and reporters to leave.

At one point, a noticeable agitated police officer gave a contradiciting instruction to the people at the scene, yelling at them to "Walk forward", while his colleague holding on to the microphone and the loudspeaker was instructing the people to "Walk backwards".

Click here to read up on the developments in the previous post.

Video: HSUSU Editorial Board

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Never Forget 6/15

黑夜盡處有著黎明，
每一個香港人走過日子，
每一步也盡是刻骨銘心，
不知道燈火的終點在哪，
但我們都會一起走下去，
前行有你，
背後有我。

The dawn always arrives at the end of the darkest night.
For each day HongKongers have gone through,
Each step is unforgettable.

Without knowing where the light ends,
We’ll still walk alongside in solidarity.

When you walk on ahead,
I follow closely behind.

#MarcoLeung #YellowRainCoatman #June15 #PoliceState

#Remembrance #15June

15th June 2020

有些不值遺忘的事總會被人遺忘
有些希望能遺忘的事總難以遺忘
香港人並不善忘
他們只不想回望
或受現實所迫
忽視了身邊的美好

Sometimes, things worth remembering are forgotten.
Sometimes, things that we wish to forget stay in our minds forever.
Hongkongers are not forgetful.
They just wish not to remember,
Or might have missed something along the way.
When they are going through the routine of their busy lives.

Editor's Note: Every one of the 36 white flowers in the background were taken individually by our reporter. Each white flower shows our undying remembrance and our sheer determination to fight on and tide through this difficult time.

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The end of the Queue was at Mid-levels

This video shows a long queue over 2 kilometers from Ginza Plaza to Mid-levels formed orderly and peacefully by citizens to pay tribute to protest martyr Marco Leung.

Marco Leung Ling-kit fell from height in Admiralty, Hong Kong, a day before historic march that drew 2 millions people.

Source: Facebook

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Hongkongers have evolved through the past year

The boy holding the tailgate sign at the end of the line was a university student, reporters found him when the queue started to shorten at 23:00, pointing all the live camera at him, while he bashfully held up a handwritten card to ask the reporters not to film his appearance. The reporters came up to ask for his thought and the time when he started tailgating, he said that he arrived at 17:00 and started to be “Mr Tailgating” as he found the situation a bit messy, instructing people where to line up for paying their respects from 18:00 to 23:00. When Siu Wan (a journalist) asked for his thought on the movement, he suddenly stood up straight and said, “I think we don’t need to wait for people to start activities online, if we want to participate in any activity, just do it.” (main idea)

I was more interested in the origin of his paper, he chuckled and said, “It’s just lecture notes.” Oh, so he’s a student of Kuo Way. I bet this page of lecture notes from mechanical engineering would not know that it had not only transferred knowledge, but become the guiding light of tens of thousands of Hongkongers tonight.

It’s all thanks to the (government’s) strong suppression on all the (activity) organizations last year. “No cross (with cross being the chill to the bones in the Chinese version of this saying), no crown (with crown being the civic maturity of Hong Kong)”, and last year was a Siberian chill, training Hong Kong to become an absolutely mature civil society which is astonishingly neat. A spontaneous memorial with tens of thousands of people paying their respects has only overflown one trash can, and there wasn’t even a piece of paper bigger than a fingernail on the ground, which is a huge improvement from the Occupy Movement in 2014.

When I talked to other reporters today, we all had the feeling that our comrades were not only back in place tonight, but also evolved since last time. But as the citizens have matured, the regime keep shrinking the room allowed for civic maturity, while RTHK, Foo Tak Building and Hong Kong Alliance are going to be broken down one by one. While the civic energy can no longer be pressed, how will this Summer of Freedom 2.0 go on?

I am worried.

PS: Listening to “Sing Hallelujah To The Lord” again makes me emotional as it feels like a lifetime ago, as I haven’t been listening to it for a year. Before the National Security Law, we probably all need to sing hallelujah to the lord to ask God to keep us safe. Amen.

#NotAChristian
#ButILoveRealChristians
#HeavenHasReservedASeatForThoseWhoShouldGo
#HongkongersRunHongKongWell
#NoNeedToBotherYou

Source: Facebook

Further reading:
The end of the Queue was at Mid-levels
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/22554

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#NeverForget : 17 Months On, Hongkongers Continue to Mourn Yellow Raincoat Man, Call for #Save12HKYouths

Photos: https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/26682

20:37 | Admiralty

17 months ago on June 15, 2019, "Yellow Raincoat Man" Marco Leung Ling-kit took his life, by jumping off from the rooftop of a shopping mall, in protest of the extradition bill, which Carrie Lam refused to withdraw despite million-strong protest marches and violent clashes outside the legislature.

On the 17-month mark tonight, citizens returned to the spot where Leung fell and paid respect to him, as they have been doing every month.

Leung's death last June shocked the city, and was remembered as the first martyr who took their own life to protest against the extradition bill, which, sadly, claimed several more lives before Carrie Lam finally withdrew it months later.

His yellow raincoat bears slogans decrying police brutality against protesters and accusing Carrie Lam for "killing Hong Kong". It has become one of the symbols for the anti-ELAB movement. A replica was hung at the memorial site tonight, where citizens placed white flowers and lit candles in his remembrance.

Posters at the scene also called for attention to the 12 pro-democracy Hongkongers who have been captured and are now detained in China without outside contact for nearly 3 months.

Like Yellow Raincoat Man, Hongkongers would not forget the sacrifices they made, nor the pain they endured.

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