Last year, during the anti-sending campaign in Hong Kong, the 8-31 Prince Edward subway station riot police suspected of indiscriminate attacks on citizens, Monday 8-31 anniversary, in the Hong Kong version of the National Security Law and the new coronary pneumonia epidemic, still thousands of citizens to lay flowers outside the Prince Edward subway station to commemorate.
A district councilor said that the authorities do not disclose the truth of the 8-31 incident, the people of Hong Kong will not forget that there may have been a “killing incident”, that the injustice to be cleared. In a recent interview, Police Commissioner Tang Bingqiang linked the 8.31 incident to China’s national security, criticizing someone for deliberately spreading the “Prince Edward Station killed people” rumor.
In the past few years, we have witnessed a series of events that have been held to commemorate the incident, including the “Prince Edward Station Death Rampage”.
The 8-31 incident, also known as the “Prince Edward subway station attack,” occurred last year during the anti-sending campaign. On the night of August 31, in a subway car from Mong Kok to Prince Edward, some passengers opposed to the demonstration provoked the demonstrators and members of the public, and some demonstrators were dissatisfied, after which both sides argued and used force, and some opponents of the demonstration wearing blue shirts attacked the demonstrators with hammers.
Police allegedly indiscriminately attacked citizens during the 8/31 incident.
One boy held a girl in his arms to shield her from the pepper spray while kneeling down and raising his hands to beg for help. Other youths in white shirts, who were not involved in any demonstration at all, were innocently hit on the head with batons, bleeding all over their faces.
After the alleged indiscriminate assault on passengers by riot police, the police chased away all journalists inside the Prince station, resulting in a “vacuum of truth” for a while.
The police denied at a regular press conference that night that they “entered the station and beat people up,” reiterated that they only used “appropriate force” to subdue the protesters, and said they had “professional judgment” and knew that those people were “police officers”. Ordinary citizens, those people were violent demonstrators. However, the police did not respond to whether the blue-shirted passengers who were filmed by the media attacking the demonstrators with hammers were arrested.
Someone described 8-31 as “the police version of the Yuen Long 7-21”.
The incident has been criticized as an indiscriminate attack on the public, with some describing it as a “police version of the Yuen Long 7-21 incident” and others as “terrorists”, another turning point in the escalating conflict between the police and the public.
Protesters have often marched in counter-delivery demonstrations since then, chanting slogans such as “7-21 (no one to see), 8-31 (no one to see), and 8-31 (no one to kill)” to protest the delayed arrival of the police in the 7-21 incident, and the alleged indiscriminate attacks on citizens in the 8-31 incident, which may even “kill” people.
Thousands of people laid flowers at Prince Edward Station on the first anniversary of the 8-31 incident.
On Monday, the first anniversary of the August 31 incident, thousands of citizens still started laying flowers outside the Prince Edward subway station in the afternoon to commemorate the first anniversary of the August 31 incident, under the Hong Kong version of the National Security Law and the new coronary pneumonia epidemic, and in the evening there was a queue of people lining up to lay flowers.
A number of pro-democracy district councillors placed large cardboard boxes outside the Prince Edward subway station to collect bouquets of flowers from citizens. In an interview with the Voice of America, Yau Tsim Mong District Councilor Lam Siu-bun said that the democratic councilors have been assisting citizens to lay flowers since March 31, 2012, to protect their rights and remind them of the 8.31 incident.
He said, “We have been collecting flowers for the public since March to defend their right to donate flowers, because since March, the police have been removing the flowers from the cemetery, which we, the district councilors, find unreasonable. “
District Councilors Say National Security Law Restricts Freedom of Expression in Hong Kong
The police sent letters in July and August urging the democratic district councilors not to assist the public in laying flowers, as to whether the police sent National Security Division officers to investigate Monday night, Lin Shaobin said he was not worried, but he admitted that the Hong Kong version of the National Security Law came into effect late at night on June 30, restricting the freedom of demonstration and expression in Hong Kong.
Lin Zhaobin said, “Of course there are restrictions, but we can’t worry so much, that is, we are all doing what we are supposed to do.”
Zhang Xiaoming, deputy director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), said in a presentation on the National Security Law of Hong Kong in July this year, “Suddenly, there are rumors that people were killed at the Prince Edward Station in Hong Kong, and they are directing social discontent at the Hong Kong police.
He Qiming said the people of Hong Kong will not forget the killing of a man to be redressed.
Another one to Prince Edward Station to assist citizens laying flowers outside the ADPL Sham Shui Po District Councilor Ho Kai-ming said in an interview with Voice of America that as long as the authorities do not disclose the truth about the 8-31 incident, Hong Kong people will not forget that there may have been a “deadly incident”, that the injustice to be cleared.
He Qiming said: “In fact, the truth is that the day the truth is not solved, we will not forget that the death of a person in the end is a time what happened, that is now ‘justice has not yet been done’, so why so many people come out to lay flowers, is because you (police) do not disclose the truth, so we all still think that you have killed someone.”
He Qiming said that in contrast to the last two months, Monday night’s police deployment was very unreasonable, and before 8 p.m. had already cleared the area outside the Prince Edward subway station, even firing pepper ball guns at citizens. He believes that the reason for the public’s agitation is the authorities’ reluctance to disclose the truth.
He said: “The police are very unreasonable, I was present for the last two months, June 30, July 31, and even May 31, I was present for the last two months, I was present for the last two months, I was present for the last two months, June 30, July 31, and even May 31, I was present for the last two months, I was present for the last two months, I was present for the last two months, June 30, July 31, and even May 31. It was to fight for a long time before it was willing to leave one or two more (district councilors) present, are just to leave one or two more, and then you see now (night) 8:45 only, (night) 8:00 did not come to clear the field, has raised the blue flag and surrounded the cordon line, followed by pepper ball (gun) and arrests, so in fact why? Open the truth we clearly do not need to engage in so much, using it (police) terminology, often told us not to engage, not we engage ah, is that you want to cover up, you 7-21 inaction, 8-31 you and killed people, these things you do not give an account, we will be so upset.”
Police will 8-31 docked national security law, lawmakers criticized for cowardice
In an interview with the Hong Kong Television Festival on Sunday, Police Commissioner Tang Bing-keung linked the August 31 incident to China’s national security and criticized the deliberate spreading of the “Prince Edward Station death” rumor to undermine the police’s ability to enforce the law and the public’s trust in the police. He criticized the spreading of the “Prince Edward Station killing” rumor to undermine the police’s ability to enforce the law and public trust in the police.
In response to Zhang Xiaoming and Deng Bingqiang’s suggestion that the 8.31 incident be linked to the National Security Law, He Qiming said that it reflects the regime’s weakness, but rather intensifies the public’s reaction.
It is because it is weak, because it feels that it is ‘in a shitty position’, and the more ‘in a shitty position’ it is, the more it wants the people to ‘shut up’,” said Ho. The simple truth is, so the more it’s banned, the more you see that backlash only grows, only more people come to speak, even as he (the citizen) imprinted that memory more deeply in the people’s minds.”
Sandy Ridge Cemetery sees a surge in unexplained bodies in 2019
Democratic District Councilors will collect bouquets of flowers laid by the public and deliver them to the Sandy Ridge Cemetery on Tuesday (September 1), in front of the gravestones of some unnamed and unclaimed corpses.
In the past year, the number of people who died in 2019 on unclaimed gravestones at the Sandy Ridge Cemetery has increased dramatically, most likely from people who died in the anti-sentencing movement and whose cause of death is unknown.
He Qiming said, as long as the police refuse to acknowledge the problem of police brutality, the day is not willing to disclose the truth, the anti-sending campaign will continue, and the first anniversary of the 8-31 incident still so many citizens took to the streets to lay flowers to commemorate, is a reflection of Hong Kong people still insist on earning the “five demands, indispensable”.
He Qiming said: “You go to the Sha Ling Cemetery will see, 2019, the unknown cause of death of some of the dead, is more than 18, 17 (years) plus previous days is much more, when you go to the Sha Ling Cemetery you see so many unknown cause of death, or do not know who he is the dead, people will ask what happened in the end, why 19 years so many more it? It is precisely because of this inability to explain, and because of this inability to explain, and because the totalitarian government continues to cover up and continues to refuse to admit its mistakes, that you have aroused so much suspicion and so much anger among the people, that you can see that if the totalitarian government refuses to admit its mistakes, if it refuses to be open and honest, if it refuses to give a clear explanation, the movement will only continue.
Citizens fearlessly singing anti-sending songs and chanting slogans in the National Security Law
After the implementation of Hong Kong’s version of the National Security Law, the song “May Glory Return to Hong Kong,” which is considered by the authorities to have Hong Kong independence implications, was changed to digital lyrics. However, on Monday night, there were still people outside Prince Edward Station singing the original Cantonese lyrics and chanting the lyrics of “I pray for democracy and freedom to last forever, I wish to return to Hong Kong with glory,” which is considered by the authorities to have Hong Kong independence implications, as well as chanting slogans such as “Glory to Hong Kong, Time Revolution.
Hong Kong couple fighting for freedom for the next generation
They sang and chanted slogans together with the crowd. Ms. Yen was interviewed by the Voice of America and said that she is not afraid of violating national security laws by chanting slogans.
They also want to fight for the freedom of Hong Kong’s next generation. Ms. Yen said, “If the more you are afraid, the more no one will come out, and if a slogan can subvert the country, this country is really fragile.
Reporter: “Is it also for the future of the children?”
Ms. Yen said, “Because really for their next generation, if they can’t even say a word, they can’t live in this city.”
Authorities asked to set up an independent commission of inquiry
Miss Yen said that the street to commemorate the first anniversary of the 8-31 incident, is to seek the truth, she believes that if the police did not do anything wrong, no need to “cover up”, it is necessary to set up an independent investigation committee to restore the truth of the incident.
Miss Yan said: “If you have not done it is not afraid to let people know the truth, that is, obviously, but also the police beat up people, but also to close the station is certainly something wrong before you dare to let people know (Road).”
Reporter asked: “So in fact, all want to have a truth (independent) Commission of Inquiry?”
Ms. Yen said: “Yes, if you don’t give back the truth, Hong Kong people will not rest in peace at all, that is, they will not feel that it is no problem, they (the police) totally feel that it is, in short, that’s it, it says whatever, no one will believe it.”
Children singing sarcastic police songs
Ms. Yan’s eldest son, 8-year-old elementary school third-grader Zheng, said in a Voice of America interview that his mother taught him to sing a satirical song about the police, and that the flowers were in memory of the victims of the 8-31 incident.
The reporter asked, “How is it sung?”
Zheng sings, “There are some black cops who are mentally retarded, who are useless and want to be powerful, and there are some black cops who are determined to be a dog.”
The reporter asked: “Do you know what you want to do today?”
Zheng said, “It’s all about mourning those who died on 8-31.”
Hong Kong citizens don’t believe the IPCC report
Ms. Wong, a Hong Kong citizen who participated in the first anniversary of the August 31 incident, said in an interview with the Voice of America that if the police were honest and impartial, why did they refuse to release all the CCTV footage of the Prince Edward subway station from the night of August 31 to the early morning of September 1 last year?
Ms. Huang said: “The so-called ‘IPCC’ simply does not have the power, useless, can not do things, so (in this case) it came out of the report and how to convince people? Report, that’s not going to help.”
Police arrest at least 14 people with pregnant women knocked down
The Hong Kong police posted on Facebook (Facebook) on Monday night, Mongkok, Prince of the area are crowds gathered and shouting, as of 10 p.m. Monday at least 14 people were arrested, aged between 16 and 60 years old, including a 17-year-old man who calls himself a journalist, each suspected of illegal assembly, disorderly conduct in public places and assault on police.
A number of Hong Kong media reports, a group of anti-riot police Monday night around 10 pm, in Mong Kok Argyle Street near Sai Yeung Choi South Street to disperse the crowd, collided with a pregnant woman in the crowd, her husband who was traveling with her to the theory, the two sides clashed, a riot police pulled the husband of the pregnant woman, and arrested him on suspicion of assaulting police. In the chaos, the pregnant woman fell to the ground, and when the media approached to film the incident, the riot police suddenly applied pepper spray, spraying many people, including the pregnant woman, who was later hospitalized.
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