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Foreign Couple Died After Falling From Height, With Two Signed Suicide Notes Found In Related To Anti-extradition Movement

A couple in their 60s, both are UK nationals, died at the scene after falling from a height at the K11 ATRUS on January 15. A source said that suicide notes, one written in Chinese and one in English, were found in the room they stayed.

The notes expressed the couple’s support to the Anti-extradition Movement in Hong Kong, as well as their frustration and concerns. The note also stated their wishes meeting the supporters of the Movement face-to-face at the LegCo building, where the Movement began.

Police concluded the case as “no suspicious circumstances”.

Source : Apple Daily
http://bit.ly/2RjZeP1
#Jan15 #Death #Suicide
#OpinionArticle
The Cause of Death of 15-year-old Chan Yin Lam

From Lam Cheuk Ting's Facebook on 3 Feb

//Ho Tse Wai & Partners and I have been very concerned about the cause of death of Chan Yin Lam, and asked the Department of Justice (DOJ) to open a Tribunal of the Cause of Death. The DOJ has replied in recent days that the police have not yet wrapped up their investigation. Thus, they have not decided whether or not to pass on the case to a Tribunal of the Cause of Death. They vowed to continue to follow up on the cause of death of Chan Yin Lam, and hoped the truth will be revealed as soon as possible.//

Source:
https://bit.ly/2GV4rYU

#ChanYinLam #LamCheukTing #Death #Suicide
#OpinionArticle

Fancy Suicide Show

Orignal Article by YoYo Ko Wai-Yin


(20 Jan) “Free-styled Suicide show” has been being performed every day in Hong Kong in the past few months. There are different inconceivable ways of suicides. The naked corpse of Chan Yin Lam, who was a good swimmer, was found floating in the sea. A man wearing in black jumped into the sea, with his mouth sealed by tape and legs tied with weights. Chow Tse-Lok was dead due to head injuries and pelvic fracture after a fall from the third floor towards the second floor of car garage. A middle-aged woman in Kwai Chung stripped naked and committed suicide on the coldest day.

These cases of suicide not only were illogic, but also happened frequently. These suicides seem to challenge the limit of committing suicide. Each case of suicide is stranger than the previous one. There are various methodologies. A female train captain of MTR drove the train under bridge, left the cabin suddenly, and then jumped off from the bridge. A decorator could enter a highly fortified duty officer quarters with a great view of secrecy, and passed through an extremely cramped fanlight like a contortionist of national calibre in China. Then, he crooked his body and jumped down. It just liked a performance of acrobatics. News said that a British couple supporting the anti-ELAB movement came far away from the United Kingdom to Hong Kong for suicide, but did not join any protest with Hong Kongers together. They changed into swimsuits before jumping out from the hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui, and wrote English and Chinese bilingual testaments, “Let’s meet under the Pot.

Police disclosed limited information about the two deceased, 67-year-old man and 61-year-old woman. However, the photo on the internet showed that the deceased female wore cherry red bikini and had a white-skinned, muscular and cleaned-body. She didn’t look like someone who just jumped off a building, but more like just fished out from the sea. Furthermore, she didn’t look like an old woman. The most doubtful is why she wore swimsuit while she committed suicide. Why were all clothes not messy, but ironed well? The deceased female’s broken ankle had clean incision without any bloodstain. It should have left a large puddle of blood splattered all over the place under normal circumstance, had she really jumped from the top of a building. Two British tourists died for nothing. Will the British Consulate get involved?

Source: Apple Daily HK
https://hk.lifestyle.appledaily.com/lifestyle/columnist/高慧然/daily/article/20200120/20846687/

#AntiELAB #Suicide #ChanYinLam #ChowTseLok #BritishCouple
「憂民報國豪風垂萬代」
「取義成仁正氣照千秋」

他令我們永遠無法忘記,
他永遠站在我們的前面,
那一次200萬+1的遊行,
到底令多少香港人覺醒?

日常的生活早不復存在,
抗爭之路仍繼續走下去,
只要我們還有一息尚存,
必然不顧一切奮戰到底。

#Remembrance #June15
First Blood: He Who Sacrificed Himself

We shall never forget
He who stood in the vanguard
Two million plus one the march did get
How many awoke through your sacrificial disregard?

Customary life gone with the wind
The fight shall go on
As long we live hearts tind
We shall fight on

Editor's note: Marco Leung, aka Yellow Raincoat Man, reminded his fellow Hongkongers to stand up for their values, freedom and rights before jumping from Pacific Place on June 15, 2019. He was named the "+1" in the 2-million-peopled anti-extradition law march the following day.

Source: Sky Post
#NeverForget #MarcoLeung #Suicide
#Death
4 'Non-suspicious' Deaths in One Day, According to the Police

Four people jumped to their deaths on Thursday May 7, all of which were declared non-suspicious by the police.

At three in the afternoon, a 38-year-old woman surnamed Lau fell off of a footbridge adjacent to On Tai Estate Yung Tai House. The police found no suicide note on-site. They suspect that Lam fell out of a stairwell from above.

At five in the afternoon, an 11-year-old girl fell from her apartment in Tak Long Estate Tak Pui House. The police found a suicide note on-site.

At nine in the evening, a 73-year-old man surnamed Shing fell from a village house in Mang Kung Uk Wat Sum Village. Police suspected that Shing accidentally fell to his death while cleaning the roof.

Meanwhile, at roughly the same time, a 58-year-old man surnamed Chung fell from a high place in Kwai Shing East Estate Shing On House. The police found no suicide note on-site. They suspected that Chung fell from a corridor above.

Source: Oncc; Headline Daily #May7 #Suicide
#NeverForget #Remembrance
Hundred Show Up to Commemorate 21-year-old Supporter of Hong Kong Pro-democracy Ptotests

One year ago, 21-year-old Lo Hiu-yan jumped from height after leaving words including "anti-extradition to China" on the wall of the staircase.

On 29 June 2020, nearly s hundred people showed up in Fanling's Ka Fok Estate to pay tribute to Lo. People brought flowers, candles, origami crane and created a make-shift altar. Lining up the candles in a shape of the heart, people sang hymns to commemorate the young girl among others who gave their lives to the protests in Hong Kong.

Source: PSHK #Jun29 #LoHiuYan #Suicide
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#OpinionArticle #LeePikwah

Summon the dead to identify protester's mother

(27 Jun) At the end of September last year, a naked corpse of a 15-year old female were awkwardly floating in the ocean. The Hong Kong police declared no foul play suspected and the body was cremated and left no remnants to investigate. The Hong Kong Coroner's Court recently did a pre-inquest review on the case.

The deceased was Chan Yin-lam, a competitive swimmer. Whether it was a "suicide" or if she "was suicided" remains an issue rife with suspicions and doubts. Someone's daughter had gone missing. Tsz-ming, one of the people in her search team, learned that the news of her death came out during the hustle and bustle. Overnight, he lost contact with both Chan's mother and her maternal uncle. The two family members vanished without a trace...

Chan had participated in anti-extradition law amendment bill (anti-ELAB) activities many times. A lovely young girl was inexplicably reduced to ash. Afterwards, many young people from the protests disappeared, some suspect they were extradited to mainland China, killed or suicided. They became trapeze artists (that shed no blood when landing) and floating corpses in the ocean. The atrocities of public security and evil cops were covered up and indulged, so will they simply remain unpunished? To appease the mob, TVB news director set out to interview Chan's mother; her blurred out face could not have been any faker. Later, some scoundrel of [Confucian] propriety, righteousness, integrity and politics* wrote an open letter "on behalf of" Chan's mother. It came with no photo, no signature and no authorisation; no one in Hong Kong believed it. For the entirety of the court date, police officers surrounded and escorted her... Netizens examined old photos of Chan's mother, suspected photos of the deceased and the more recent images from her [mother's] court appearance. They made comparisons of her [Chan's] brow ridges, the birthmark on her neck, the part in her hair and the puffiness in her eyes. This "grand charade" could not end even if it wanted to. So this place does not have 300 taels?+ Who knows what is true or false? Display ID? Compare names? DNA testing? Which department is trustworthy?

This is why the best way to seek redress is by summoning the dead in a public trial just like the Hello Kitty murder case++ when the courtroom's halogen lights kept flashing and the victim's half-cooked head aired her own grievances. Only if [Chan's] departed soul cries out "Mom!" in the courtroom will we believe it.

Editor's Note:
* 禮義廉政 is a play on words of the proper phrase, 禮義廉恥, meaning propriety, righteousness, integrity and honour. This article replaced honour (恥) with politics (政).
+ This place does not have 300 taels is a Chinese idiom akin to one of Aesop's Fables. It refers to someone who believes that they are clever, but their attempt to cover something up only makes the situation more obvious.
++ The Hello Kitty murder case refers to the kidnapping, torture and death of night club hostess in 1999. The convicts boiled her head to hide evidence of the crime.


Source: Apple Daily
Translated by: Hong Kong Echo

#ChanYinlam #antiELAB #Suicide #hongkongpolice #fake #mother #TVB
#Information

The Hong Kong Suicide Map

Mr Water has created a map - The Hong Kong Suicide Map. This map puts together the suicides that happened in Hong Kong in 2019 and 2020. Adding up to a total of 1024 attempted suicides and 722 deaths as of 21st July 2020. Using the data from Hong Kong Suicide News Database, the map listed out the date, suicide method, gender, age, last name, location, suicide notes and news reports of each suicide case. Most of the cases involved jumping off a building.

⬇️⬇️⬇️ The Map
https://public.tableau.com/profile/mrwater#!/vizhome/17144/1

Further reading:
Summon the dead to identify protester's mother
https://telegra.ph/Summon-the-dead-to-identifyprotesters-mother-07-16
#Suicide
#Hongkonger #NeverForget
“I am lost in Hong Kong”:
#YellowRaincoatMan

On May 10, 2021, the Coroner’s Court in Hong Kong has opened the inquest into the death of “yellow raincoat man” #MarcoLeung Ling-kit, the first martyred Hong Kong protestor, who on June 15, 2019, fell from a scaffolding at Pacific Place mall in Admiralty after unfurling a banner with the Five Demands of the protests.

Leung’s parents were absent from court.

Inside the court room, the personal belongings of Leung were exhibited. These include a banner that read "Fully withdraw extradition to China, we are not rioters" and his famous yellow poncho displaying the line "Carrie Lam kills Hong Kong, Corrupt Cop is Coldblooded".
Apart from these, there is also a black T-shirt with the words “I am lost in Hong Kong” and a notebook where he wrote “I am frustrated by this Hong Kong.”

A clip of the incident was shown in court, in which Democrat Roy Kwong and other citizens tried to persuade Leung not to commit suicide. “Walk back!” “We still have tomorrow. Let’s march together tomorrow!”

Macro Leung died on June 15, 2019, a day before a march which sees 2 million Hongkongers taking to the street, the largest the city has ever witnessed. He has since become an icon in Hong Kong’s resistance movement.

Source: In Media #May10
https://bit.ly/3y2azrq

#Court #CoronerCourt #AntiELAB #PacificPlace #Notebook #Lastword #Suicide
#NeverForget #NeverGiveUp
Hong Kong Pro-democracy Trade Unions Commemorate CCP-'Suicided' #LiWangYang for Fighting Against Totalitarian Power

Video: https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/29988

On June 6, 2021, the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (#HKCTU), a pro-democracy labour rights group, held a memorial for Chinese dissident Li Wangyang (1950-2012) who passed away on the day 9 years ago in 2012.

After being jailed by the Chinese authorities for 21 years, Li who had become blind and nearly deaf by then was found dead in a hospital room. The #ChineseCommunistParty (#CCP) government initially claimed that Li had "committed suicide".

Li's sudden death -- which took place just a few days after he in an interview called for the vindication of the 1989 June 4th #TiananmenMassacre -- had stirred up outcry in Hong Kong and abroad. The real cause of his death remained in the shadow.

The HKCTU organized a commemorative event to pay tribute to Li's perseverance in fighting against the regime.

#ChowHangTung, vice chairperson of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China who was arrested by the Hong Kong police on the morning of June 4, 2021, joined the memorial on bail.

Chow said, "The regime does not win even by imprisoning us. As long as we manage to reinforce the movement during the process, we are not losing."

Source: HKCTU; InMedia;
#FirstHand #Jun6
https://bit.ly/3ghbIDu

#Dissent #Death #Suicide #StateTerrorism #Memorial
#Video