For the second year in a row, some Hong Kong citizens visited the Sha Ling Cemetery during the Ching Ming Festival to pay tribute to the unknown protesters who died in the anti-Send-China movement (Voice of America/Tang Wai Yun)
For the second year in a row, people visited the Sandy Ridge Cemetery during the Ching Ming Festival to pay tribute to the unnamed protesters who died in the anti-China campaign. This year, for the first time, police officers were stationed at the cemetery to register the identity of those who went to pay their respects. Those who went to pay their respects insisted that the large number of cases of unnamed bodies found in 2019 must be related to the anti-Send-China movement, and hoped that the day would come when the truth would be revealed. Some Hong Kong people who are about to emigrate expressed their hope that they can assist young Hong Kong people in exile or emigrating overseas in the future.
A document submitted by the Hong Kong government to the Legislative Council Finance Committee early last year showed that there were 8,148 body discoveries and 713 suicide cases in 2019, both of which were more than in 2018, with body discoveries hitting a new high in the past three years. The police said the vast majority of body discovery and suicide cases are not suspicious.
For the second year in a row, people paid their respects at Sandy Ridge Cemetery during Qingming
The outbreak of the anti-Sending China movement in early June 2019, during which a number of fierce clashes between the police and the public occurred, rumors circulated on the Internet that some protesters may have been killed, especially 8-31 Prince Edward MTR station there are riot police suspected of indiscriminate attacks on the public, many Hong Kong people believe that the police may have killed people that day, therefore, the last day of each month, there are a large number of people to Prince Edward MTR station exit to lay flowers.
The Sha Ling Cemetery, located in Sha Ling, New Territories, near the Man Kam To and Lo Wu control points on the Hong Kong-China border, is a cemetery set up by the Hong Kong government for unclaimed bodies, and all tombstones have no names but only numbers, including the year of burial.
Many Hong Kong people who support the anti-China campaign believe that the unclaimed bodies buried in the Sandy Ridge Cemetery from late 2019 to 2020 may be unnamed protesters who died during the anti-China campaign. Starting from last year, for two consecutive years, people visited the Sandy Ridge Cemetery during the Ching Ming Festival to pay their respects to these unnamed protesters.
Many Hong Kong citizens who support the anti-China campaign believe that the unclaimed bodies buried at the Sha Ling Cemetery in late 2019-2020 are the unnamed protesters who died during the anti-China campaign (Voice of America/Tong Wai Yun)
This year, on April 4, a few days before and after the Qingming Festival public holiday, the police sent police officers for the first time in the Sandy Ridge Cemetery from 2019 to 2020 buried in the unmarked gravestones section of the entrance stationed, registered to pay respect to the public ID card number and other personal information, and even go to the interview journalists have to register information.
The public hope to solve the mystery of the case of unknown cause of death
Hong Kong citizens Mr. Lin and two friends with about 100 white chrysanthemums, April 9 after the Qingming Festival public holiday, to pay respects to the Sandy Ridge Cemetery. On that day, there were no police officers stationed at the unmarked gravestone section from 2019 to 2020, and not many people went to pay their respects.
Mr. Lam, for the second year in a row, insisted that the large number of unidentified bodies found in 2019 is quite definitely related to the anti-sending campaign, hoping that the mystery of these cases of unknown causes of death will be revealed one day.
Mr. Lam, a Hong Kong citizen, pays his respects at the Sandy Ridge Cemetery for the second year in a row (Voice of America/Tong Wai Wan)
Mr. Lam said: “This mystery always has to be solved one day, in fact, there is no possibility that so many people’s bodies are unclaimed, in fact, this mystery must be opened one day, so many of us in Hong Kong are persistent, to find out the answer, in the end so many people are dead for no reason.”
The reporter asked, “Do you think this mystery is related to the anti-sending China campaign in 2019?”
Mr. Lin said, “Definitely, definitely.”
Reporter asked, “Do you think these (unclaimed bodies) might be some protesters?”
Mr. Lam said, “The chances are high, very high. That is, why do we have to focus on (mourn) Chen Yanlin and Zhou Zile every month? Because these two are the injustice that we have seen with our eyes, that is, they have become (bodies) someone to claim, there are people to notice them, but these (unclaimed bodies in Sandy Ridge Cemetery) completely no one knows who he (they) are then, in fact, he (they) came to this world, should not be so gone, so we have to hang on to him (them). “
Chen Yanlin Zhou Zile cause of death in doubt to attract widespread attention
Chen Yanlin, a 15-year-old girl who had participated in many protests against the send-in movement, was found naked and floating in the sea around Devil’s Peak in Yau Tong, Kowloon on September 22, 2019. Why Chen Yanlin, who is a strong swimmer, turned into a floating corpse has caused widespread concern in the Hong Kong community.
However, the police said that the investigation concluded that the cause of her death was not suspicious and explained at a regular police press conference on October 11, 2019, that Chen Yanlin’s remains had been cremated. The community widely questioned that the case had a high chance of being a homicide, and also believed that Chen Yanlin’s death was related to her former participation in the anti-Send-China movement.
On September 11, 2020, the Coroner’s Court ruled that Chen Yanlin’s cause of death was doubtful, finding that the decomposition of her body could not determine the cause of her death, and that the location and time of her injuries and death were not known. However, the police have not launched any further investigation into the cause of Chan’s death.
Chow Tsz Lok, a 22-year-old student at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, was seriously injured in the early hours of Nov. 4, 2019, when she fell from the third floor of the Sheung Tak parking lot to the second floor during a clash between the police and the public in Tseung Kwan O. She died on Nov. 8, becoming the first person to be injured and killed near the scene of a clash between the police and the public in the anti-sending movement.
After 29 days of coroner’s court hearing, it was ruled that the cause of Zhou Ziluo’s death is doubtful, whether his death was due to the police cordoned off the scene, resulting in delayed hospitalization, or was pushed from behind and fell from a high place, or to avoid tear gas accidentally fell from the building, these mysteries have not been answered.
Hong Kong people have an answer to the cause of death of Chen Yanlin Zhou Ziluo
Mr. Lam said that regardless of the Coroner’s Court ruling, Hong Kong people have an answer in their minds about the cause of death of Chen Yanlin and Zhou Ziluo, and he believes that people who have done bad things will not rest in peace.
Mr. Lam said: “(Coroner’s Court) this (cause of death doubt) the final answer to say that the people already know what happened, because the first doubt is that the people who murdered Chen Yanlin did not know that this is a swimmer, that is, if he changed his way, he died in a second way, may be fine, why swimmer to commit suicide, stripped himself naked and jumped into the sea it? I think it’s an impossible thing, so absurd that no one will believe you. Zhou Ziluo is a witness, there are (film) people see, some are not to deny, but all over the bone (muddle through), those involved feel they have passed the bone (muddle through), but I think some things can not (evade), that is, some really did something bad people, I do not believe that he will not send (create) nightmares, this is my philosophy.”
Mr. Lam also said that no matter how the official denied that there were unnamed protesters sacrificed in the anti-sending campaign, he believed that many people would not believe the official story.
Mr. Lam said, “There is no need to look at the response, now it (Beijing) has trampled on one country, two systems to such a time, they (official) speak what everyone understands what it is doing, it is the time to mainlandize Hong Kong, we each understand what has happened.”
People say Hong Kong under the national security law ridiculous to the extreme
Mr. Lam, who used to participate in the anti-sending-China movement, said many of his friends advised him to leave Hong Kong, fearing that he would become one of the targets of the authorities, but he felt he had done nothing wrong under the existing law, and the authorities only wronged the democrats with the bottomless national security law.
Mr. Lam said that if the authorities were justified, they should not have cancelled the Legislative Council election originally held in September last year to see if the pro-democracy camp could really achieve more than half of the 35+ seats. He believes that Hong Kong is now ridiculous under the national security law and Hong Kong people will not be convinced.
Mr. Lam said: “I’ll say they (Beijing) do not know how to script, if you want to trap us (the democratic camp) in injustice, you should not cancel the election last year to see if it (the democratic camp) to win 35+, to win and let it what? If it is really vetoed, you let it do, because what it said is all allowed in the Basic Law, and then only then you reverse, if the political turmoil in Hong Kong, it is not too late to arrest them, then all incriminated, all in, but now they say nothing is done out, you wrongly accused it (them) subversion of the country (China), I think it is not We as Hong Kong people will not be convinced.”
People’s emigration to pay tribute at Sha Ling Cemetery before leaving Hong Kong
Miss Chow, a Hong Kong citizen who participated in the anti-China campaign and visited the Sha Ling Cemetery with Mr. Lam, said in an interview with the Voice of America that she had decided to emigrate to a foreign country in the near future and visited the Sha Ling Cemetery during the Ching Ming Festival for the second year in a row before leaving Hong Kong, feeling quite sad and uneasy.
Miss Zhou said: “It has been a whole year, this time to the Sandy Ridge Cemetery very feel, and a lot more anonymous people passed away, those just a number is his body (remains), that feeling is very bleak or feel very uncomfortable, is why the whole two years, nearly two years, there are so many unknown death, to now even if the government or, or Civil society groups are unable to do anything in this regard?
Ms. Chow questioned why the authorities did not withdraw the investigation of a number of deaths that occurred during the 2019 anti-sending campaign for unknown reasons, such as the case of Chen Yanlin and Zhou Ziluo.
Ms. Zhou, who is about to emigrate from Hong Kong, visited the Sha Ling Cemetery during the Ching Ming Festival for the second consecutive year before leaving Hong Kong (Voice of America/Tong Wai Yun).
Miss Zhou said: “As in the more high-profile cases, Chen Yanlin and Zhou Ziluo, the court ruled that the cause of death is doubtful, but why will no one or the government authorities to conduct a more in-depth investigation, so that these young people died in vain, that feeling is very unhappy, this time I went to the (Sandy Ridge Cemetery) feel very heavy, to pay respect to this group of young people, and Earlier in the newspaper news, the government cracked down on some people who went to the Sandy Ridge Cemetery to pay their respects, and I was worried with anxiety whether my friends and I would be obstructed when we went to the Sandy Ridge Cemetery.”
Hope to immigrate to foreign countries to help young Hong Kong people overseas
The police intercepted people visiting the cemetery during the Ching Ming Festival this year, Ms. Chow believes that the authorities are intentionally suppressing, reducing the number of people visiting the cemetery to create a chilling effect, she believes that staying in Hong Kong can only live a miserable life, it is better to emigrate to foreign countries, in the form of financial support overseas, to help young Hong Kong people in exile or emigrate overseas, in the hope of restoring Hong Kong overseas, and restoring Hong Kong is not to carry out We only hope to pass on the unique language and culture of Hong Kong overseas.
The unclaimed body buried at Sandy Ridge Cemetery has no name on the tombstone, only the year of burial and a number (Voice of America/Tong Wai Yun)
Miss Chow said: “I hope he (young people) overseas can play his strengths, continue to study, we can support them financially or in other ways, as long as we Hong Kong people overseas to leave a little blood, even if only a small number of Hong Kong people, but our Cantonese, our Hong Kong culture, continue to have this group of people in foreign countries, or have our I believe that in fact, as long as the time is ripe, in fact, we will always be able to restore Hong Kong one day.”
Police responded to cases of unknown cause of death last year, saying that between 2010 and 2019, the number of unclaimed remains was clearly on a downward trend, with the remains mainly of babies under the age of 0 or people over the age of 41.
Police also said that unidentified remains accounted for 4.3 percent of all unclaimed remains from January 2019 to March 2020.
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