#HongKongChronicles #CUHKBattle
"We Love the Young People of Hong Kong Even More"
On the evening of November 12, 2019, thousands of Hongkongers and alumni of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (#CUHK) rushed to protect the campus, as the police tried to siege the university with force.
As the police sealed off the roads, the closest one can get was Foo Tan. Some people walked from Ma On Shan while carrying bags of supply. Those who could not reach the campus cried helplessly before the live broadcast.
We love CUHK.
We love Hong Kong.
We love the young people of Hong Kong even more.
[Editor's note: The photo captured the civilian-police stand off on Bridge No. 2 on campus during the Battle of CUHK. Civilians were defending the university from the police's firing of thousands of tear gas grenades, rubber bullets and beanbag rounds with umbrellas.]
Photo: Raymond L
Source: Studio Incendo #Nov12
https://www.facebook.com/1474101479504603/posts/2759208560993882/
#LastYearToday #CUHKSiege #StateTerrorism
"We Love the Young People of Hong Kong Even More"
On the evening of November 12, 2019, thousands of Hongkongers and alumni of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (#CUHK) rushed to protect the campus, as the police tried to siege the university with force.
As the police sealed off the roads, the closest one can get was Foo Tan. Some people walked from Ma On Shan while carrying bags of supply. Those who could not reach the campus cried helplessly before the live broadcast.
We love CUHK.
We love Hong Kong.
We love the young people of Hong Kong even more.
[Editor's note: The photo captured the civilian-police stand off on Bridge No. 2 on campus during the Battle of CUHK. Civilians were defending the university from the police's firing of thousands of tear gas grenades, rubber bullets and beanbag rounds with umbrellas.]
Photo: Raymond L
Source: Studio Incendo #Nov12
https://www.facebook.com/1474101479504603/posts/2759208560993882/
#LastYearToday #CUHKSiege #StateTerrorism
#Britain: China Breaches #JointDeclaration; #EU: China Contradicts its International Commitments
Britain released a second #statement in response to "Beijing’s imposition of new rules to disqualify elected legislators in Hong Kong".
British foreign minister Dominic Raab called it "a clear breach of the legally binding Sino-British Joint Declaration".
The statement said, "China has once again broken its promises and undermined Hong Kong’s high degree of autonomy. The UK will stand up for the people of Hong Kong, and call out violations of their rights and freedoms. With our international partners, we will hold China to the obligations it freely assumed under international law."
The European Union also comdemned China for "further significantly undermin[ing] Hong Kong’s autonomy under the 'One Country, Two Systems' principle, and the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms in Hong Kong, contrary to China’s international commitments."
Source: UK Foreign Secretary; EU #Nov12
Image: InMedia
Britain released a second #statement in response to "Beijing’s imposition of new rules to disqualify elected legislators in Hong Kong".
British foreign minister Dominic Raab called it "a clear breach of the legally binding Sino-British Joint Declaration".
The statement said, "China has once again broken its promises and undermined Hong Kong’s high degree of autonomy. The UK will stand up for the people of Hong Kong, and call out violations of their rights and freedoms. With our international partners, we will hold China to the obligations it freely assumed under international law."
The European Union also comdemned China for "further significantly undermin[ing] Hong Kong’s autonomy under the 'One Country, Two Systems' principle, and the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms in Hong Kong, contrary to China’s international commitments."
Source: UK Foreign Secretary; EU #Nov12
Image: InMedia
#CUHKSiege #NeverForget
Democracy Wall Becomes Lennon Wall During the Commemoration of Battle of CUHK
A year after the police's attempt to siege the university campus, the students' union of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (#CUHK) held a retrospective exhibition on the campus.
The venue was crowded as many visitors came. As people stuck memos on the "democracy wall" of the students' union, it became a Lennon wall.
Source: Stand News #Nov12
https://www.facebook.com/710476795704610/posts/3637975319621395/
#CUHKBattle #LennonWall #HongKongProtest #Save12HK #Exhibition
Democracy Wall Becomes Lennon Wall During the Commemoration of Battle of CUHK
A year after the police's attempt to siege the university campus, the students' union of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (#CUHK) held a retrospective exhibition on the campus.
The venue was crowded as many visitors came. As people stuck memos on the "democracy wall" of the students' union, it became a Lennon wall.
Source: Stand News #Nov12
https://www.facebook.com/710476795704610/posts/3637975319621395/
#CUHKBattle #LennonWall #HongKongProtest #Save12HK #Exhibition
#LastYearToday #HongKongChronicles
Voluntary First aiders Haunted by Guilt after Escape: The #PolyUSiege was not just a Suppression, it was a Massacre!
Source: Apple Daily #Nov12
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https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/26687
Voluntary First aiders Haunted by Guilt after Escape: The #PolyUSiege was not just a Suppression, it was a Massacre!
Source: Apple Daily #Nov12
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https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/26687
#LastYearToday #HongKongChronicles
Voluntary First aiders Haunted by Guilt after Escape: The #PolyUSiege was not just a Suppression, it was a Massacre!
Voluntary first aiders 'Siu-Yu' and 'Tou-Tou' (alias) first met each other at the campus of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (#PolyU) on November 16, 2019.
When Tou-Tou and her friends who are also first aiders arrived at the campus in the evening, she saw Siu-Yu was alone, so she asked her to join them. They stayed until the evening of November 17, witnessed the intensifying conflicts within the PolyU, and became comrades-in-arms since then.
November 17, 2019 was a long day. Since afternoon, Cheong Wan Road opposite to the PolyU campus had been shrouded in smoke, as police had been relentlessly firing tear gas. Some tear gas grenades were shot onto the wall og the Hong Kong Museum of History, then bounced off and hit the protestors.
In the smoke, Siu-Yu and Tou-Tou were busy dragging the wounded protesters to safe places and used normal saline to cleanse their wounds.
Many protestors refused to take rest and insisted on going back to the field. The conflict on that day was much more tragic and miserable than those happened before in the Anti-ELAB movement.
Siu-Yu recalled, 'I did not think what police carried out that day was not just a suppression, it was a massacre!'
In the battle of the PolyU, a protestor was cut by the obstructions including iron sticks while he was taking flight, a palm-sized wound laid open to the bone was sustained, but there was a shortage of anesthetics in the campus, the first aiders then needed to stitch his wound up without any medication.
'The most heartbreaking thing is that the kids did not want to take any medicine, they said they would rather leave it to the next one, because they did not want to waste it, but in fact they desperately need it.'
Source: Apple Daily #Nov12
https://bit.ly/35olgZ2
#FirstAiders #NeverForget #NeverForgive
Voluntary First aiders Haunted by Guilt after Escape: The #PolyUSiege was not just a Suppression, it was a Massacre!
Voluntary first aiders 'Siu-Yu' and 'Tou-Tou' (alias) first met each other at the campus of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (#PolyU) on November 16, 2019.
When Tou-Tou and her friends who are also first aiders arrived at the campus in the evening, she saw Siu-Yu was alone, so she asked her to join them. They stayed until the evening of November 17, witnessed the intensifying conflicts within the PolyU, and became comrades-in-arms since then.
November 17, 2019 was a long day. Since afternoon, Cheong Wan Road opposite to the PolyU campus had been shrouded in smoke, as police had been relentlessly firing tear gas. Some tear gas grenades were shot onto the wall og the Hong Kong Museum of History, then bounced off and hit the protestors.
In the smoke, Siu-Yu and Tou-Tou were busy dragging the wounded protesters to safe places and used normal saline to cleanse their wounds.
Many protestors refused to take rest and insisted on going back to the field. The conflict on that day was much more tragic and miserable than those happened before in the Anti-ELAB movement.
Siu-Yu recalled, 'I did not think what police carried out that day was not just a suppression, it was a massacre!'
In the battle of the PolyU, a protestor was cut by the obstructions including iron sticks while he was taking flight, a palm-sized wound laid open to the bone was sustained, but there was a shortage of anesthetics in the campus, the first aiders then needed to stitch his wound up without any medication.
'The most heartbreaking thing is that the kids did not want to take any medicine, they said they would rather leave it to the next one, because they did not want to waste it, but in fact they desperately need it.'
Source: Apple Daily #Nov12
https://bit.ly/35olgZ2
#FirstAiders #NeverForget #NeverForgive
#PolyUSiege
#PolyU University Managememt Suppresses Students' Union's Commemorative Events, Bans Screenings and Newspaper Advertisement, Threatens Students with Penalties
Source: Stand News #Nov12
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https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/26706
#PolyU University Managememt Suppresses Students' Union's Commemorative Events, Bans Screenings and Newspaper Advertisement, Threatens Students with Penalties
Source: Stand News #Nov12
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#PolyUSiege
#PolyU University Managememt Suppresses Students' Union's Commemorative Events, Bans
Screenings and Newspaper Advertisement, Threatens Students with Penalties
On the eve of the one-year mark of the siege of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University Students (PolyU), the Students' Union (#PUSU) planned to hold the screenings of two documentaries, 'Save PolyU ' and 'Inside the Red Brick Wall' on November 17 and 18, 2020, in addition to publishing a statement on the front page of Apple Daily.
However, the university management stated in an email sent to the Students' Union on Nov 11, 2020 that the screenings and the newspaper advertisement were banned. If the students do not comply, the university authorities will impose a series of punishments including terminating their use and management rights of the students' union venues; the university will also stop collecting the students union's fee for them, among other disciplinary penalties.
The Students Union condemned the university's intervention, describing it as an act intending to 'wipe out the bloody scenes in our campus'. Regarding the use of venues and operation in the future, the Union will rearrange the screenings and post the statement via their social media instead.
Source: Stand News #Nov12
#PoliticalSuppression #Censorship #University #NeverForget #NeverForgive
#PolyU University Managememt Suppresses Students' Union's Commemorative Events, Bans
Screenings and Newspaper Advertisement, Threatens Students with Penalties
On the eve of the one-year mark of the siege of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University Students (PolyU), the Students' Union (#PUSU) planned to hold the screenings of two documentaries, 'Save PolyU ' and 'Inside the Red Brick Wall' on November 17 and 18, 2020, in addition to publishing a statement on the front page of Apple Daily.
However, the university management stated in an email sent to the Students' Union on Nov 11, 2020 that the screenings and the newspaper advertisement were banned. If the students do not comply, the university authorities will impose a series of punishments including terminating their use and management rights of the students' union venues; the university will also stop collecting the students union's fee for them, among other disciplinary penalties.
The Students Union condemned the university's intervention, describing it as an act intending to 'wipe out the bloody scenes in our campus'. Regarding the use of venues and operation in the future, the Union will rearrange the screenings and post the statement via their social media instead.
Source: Stand News #Nov12
#PoliticalSuppression #Censorship #University #NeverForget #NeverForgive
#CUHKSiege #HongKongChronicles
University Students: "President, you have to save us…I trust the humanistic spirit of CUHK!”
Source: Leung Kai Chi's Facebook #Nov12
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University Students: "President, you have to save us…I trust the humanistic spirit of CUHK!”
Source: Leung Kai Chi's Facebook #Nov12
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University Students: "President, you have to save us…I trust the humanistic spirit of CUHK!”
Dr. Leung Kai-chi is a columnist, commentator and guest lecturer at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He wrote the following comtemplation on the one-year mark of the siege of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (#CUHK):
"I don’t think I posted this photo before.
Rushing around during those two days, I didn’t have time to take any pictures. But somehow, I subconsciously felt that I must record this scene: this was the moment when the [University] President walked into student dormintory in the afternoon.
On that day, several teaching staff reached the President's Residence and asked him to come down. Originally they hoped that the President would meet with the students, rather than asking him to go to the No. 2 Bridge.
After entering the dormintory and still arranging the venue, a student suddenly rushed over in the corridor, holding the President's legs and broke down entirely with a wailing cry.
“President, you have to save us…”
“President, you have to save us…”
“My family wants me to study abroad, but I didn’t want to. I have to study at CUHK! I trust the teachers in CUHK! I trust the humanistic spirit of CUHK!”
“Principal, you have to save us…”
Later, more students rushed over and helped that student up.
Afterwards, the President walked to the lawn behind the dormintory and had a short-talk with some seniors.
I never knew what they were talking about, for I was in the process of setting up the venue. Soon, the senior came over and said: “no need to prepare, the President is ready to go to the No. 2 Bridge.”
In the 56 years that the school was founded, how much has to be accumulated to have such a moment.
Running around in these two days, I was trying to cool down the situation all the way, but in vain. But looking back on this scene, the essence of the matter was not President Rocky Tuan or anybody else saving the students, but the spirit and value for one and all to protect the university together."
Source: Leung Kai Chi's Facebook #Nov12
#HongKongProtests #Students #Youths
University Students: "President, you have to save us…I trust the humanistic spirit of CUHK!”
Dr. Leung Kai-chi is a columnist, commentator and guest lecturer at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He wrote the following comtemplation on the one-year mark of the siege of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (#CUHK):
"I don’t think I posted this photo before.
Rushing around during those two days, I didn’t have time to take any pictures. But somehow, I subconsciously felt that I must record this scene: this was the moment when the [University] President walked into student dormintory in the afternoon.
On that day, several teaching staff reached the President's Residence and asked him to come down. Originally they hoped that the President would meet with the students, rather than asking him to go to the No. 2 Bridge.
After entering the dormintory and still arranging the venue, a student suddenly rushed over in the corridor, holding the President's legs and broke down entirely with a wailing cry.
“President, you have to save us…”
“President, you have to save us…”
“My family wants me to study abroad, but I didn’t want to. I have to study at CUHK! I trust the teachers in CUHK! I trust the humanistic spirit of CUHK!”
“Principal, you have to save us…”
Later, more students rushed over and helped that student up.
Afterwards, the President walked to the lawn behind the dormintory and had a short-talk with some seniors.
I never knew what they were talking about, for I was in the process of setting up the venue. Soon, the senior came over and said: “no need to prepare, the President is ready to go to the No. 2 Bridge.”
In the 56 years that the school was founded, how much has to be accumulated to have such a moment.
Running around in these two days, I was trying to cool down the situation all the way, but in vain. But looking back on this scene, the essence of the matter was not President Rocky Tuan or anybody else saving the students, but the spirit and value for one and all to protect the university together."
Source: Leung Kai Chi's Facebook #Nov12
#HongKongProtests #Students #Youths
Foreign Secretary declares breach of Sino-British Joint Declaration
Dominic Raab said,
“Beijing’s imposition of new rules to disqualify elected legislators in Hong Kong constitutes a clear breach of the legally binding Sino-British Joint Declaration.”
“China has once again broken its promises and undermined Hong Kong’s high degree of autonomy. The UK will stand up for the people of and freedoms. With our international partners, we will hold China to the obligations it freely assumed under international law.”
Source: The government of UK website
#Nov12
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/foreign-secretary-declares-breach-of-sino-british-joint-declaration?fbclid=IwAR3QVH0WK0YKcvRnMZeII2K3NkXfX--ZugaMGQMDe9J1S-sjO33hwwSCOP0
#SinoBritish #China #UK #HongKong
Dominic Raab said,
“Beijing’s imposition of new rules to disqualify elected legislators in Hong Kong constitutes a clear breach of the legally binding Sino-British Joint Declaration.”
“China has once again broken its promises and undermined Hong Kong’s high degree of autonomy. The UK will stand up for the people of and freedoms. With our international partners, we will hold China to the obligations it freely assumed under international law.”
Source: The government of UK website
#Nov12
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/foreign-secretary-declares-breach-of-sino-british-joint-declaration?fbclid=IwAR3QVH0WK0YKcvRnMZeII2K3NkXfX--ZugaMGQMDe9J1S-sjO33hwwSCOP0
#SinoBritish #China #UK #HongKong