TLDR: Because of #TiananmenMassacre, #HongKong has never fully trusted #CCP, fearing that the promise of #democracy will never be realized and our way of life and #freedom will be crushed in the most brutal way. The violent crackdown of 2019's democratic movement and the arbitrary imposition of #nationalsecuritylaw are pretty much our worst nightmare come true.
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While an older generation of #HongKongers commemorated #Tiananmen because they felt that those in #Beijing were kin, a young generation of #HKers, many born after 1989, have different reasons to remember the massacre. Instead of feeling bonded by blood to the #Chinese protesters, many "pass down the torch" of June 4th because they believe that history must be preserved, and they recognized that protesters on Tiananmen Square were fighting against the same oppressor, for the same goals - democracy.
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To nobody's surprise, #HK's dim-witted puppet government is banning this year's vigil. If the #Chinese government means business about getting [...]

"We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness" is faith that bond #HongKongers together. The convenor of Civil Human Rights Front, Figo Chan, who is now imprisoned for organizing the annual July 1st march, implores #HKers to hold the fort and not be silenced.
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#FigoChan #HongKong #freedomofspeech #freedomofassembly #hkprotest #lettersfromprison #georgeorwell #nineteeneightyfour #english #diyms

#HongKong government makes sure #HKers have a good time on #CCP's centenary and the 24th year since #HK fell to the clutches of Commies by having police storm our malls, arrest our citizens and frighten our children and elderly. But even though protests are not taking the form we are familiar with, it doesn't mean they cease to exist.
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#HKpolice #China #hkprotest #policebruality #powerabuse #english #diyms

⚠️IMPORTANT⚠️ Have companies like #Google, #Facebook and #Twitter struck a deal with the #HongKong govt to let them push the law through as long as it only targets #HKers, and not the staff and hq? Or is the govt forcing the bill through risking a trigger for these companies to stop providing services to HK? This bill will even empower the authority to get hold of gadgets WITHOUT WARRANTS!
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Also, how typical of the #HK government to sneak important announcement out at midnight like thieves (they are in a way). Luckily we don’t sleep.
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#antidoxxing #LegislativeCouncil #Legco #socialmedia #english #diyms

No doubt #HongKong is now a #policestate. Security officials are not held accountable to their violation of the law, more seriously - there are no way to know if they are connected to the #RAPE accusation, or if the dinner conference is related to #CORRUPTION. #CarrieLam's #doublestandard is appalling as she brushed these serious questions aside, the same week as she claims that #students from #HKU who mourned the suicide of Leung Kin-fai as "shameful and enraging". #ChrisTang even asked #HKers to be considerate as the three high officials sacrificed their time with family to attend this illegal dinner party. LMAO - poor you three, why not just step down as we asked? Nobody wants you anyways!
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#hk #AuKawang #SonnyAu #HermesChan #ChrisTang #english #diyms

It's been two years since the #721YuenLongTerroristAttack. For many #HongKongers, this is an event that completely changed their lives - many woke up to the tyrannical rule of #CCP, any faith in the #HongKong government was completely eradicated. Many are haunted by the attack to this day. As the authorities are busy rewriting the narrative, to frame victims as instigators, we bear the responsibility of passing on the truth, so that generations of #HKers remember our history and understand that the bloody regime in #Beijing is our enemy!
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#YuenLong #Globalrallies #UK #London #Birmingham #Bristol #Liverpool #Toronto #Washington #Germany #english #Diyms

Laying down white flowers outside Prince Edward station, on the 31st of every month, is no longer possible in #HongKong. Two years have passed since the #831PrinceEdwardAttack, so much has changed that we may as well be living in an alternate universe. But #HongKongers all over the world are showing that we have not forgotten how the #CCP literally beat us to death. Thank you overseas #HKers for carrying on the torch and do what is now forbidden in our own home.
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#PrinceEdwardstation #policebruality

As if #HongKongers with any sense would "be quiet" and be oppressed without a squeal. #CCP is silencing the civil society, but #HKers are showing through action that we're not buying this authoritarian rule.
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#HongKong #meme #exodus #immigration #China #professional #education #nationalsecuritylaw

#PRC's national day is no cause for celebration for #HongKongers. After all the #CCP-sanctioned police brutality and sexual abuse, #HongKong has completely lost respect and hope for this tyrant. In 2019, on the so-called "new #China's" 70th anniversary, #Chinese celebrations are placed side by side with CCP's brutal crackdown on #HongKong on international headlines, including the use of lethal weapon against a student.
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We will never forget. The CCP has lost the hearts of whole generations of #HKers, and ripped off its mask in front of the world.
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#nationalsecurity #ChineseNationalDay #October #hkhistory #hongkonghistory

TLDR: 就算失望，不能絕望。共勉之。
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This is not a post recounting the details of the #UmbrellaRevolution so much as what it stood for and how it informed the #fightforfreedom in #HongKong. For years, #HKers had been struggling to defend our rights and values from the #CCP. The #UmbrellaMovement in 2014 was for many an awakening to the root cause of the social problems in #HK - the lack of a popularly mandated government as ours was (and is) but a #Beijing puppet.
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The experience of 2014 produced the now much more mainstream indigenous ideology and inspired new protest tactics in 2019. Hong Kong has never stopped evolving to cope with challenges and does not intend to stop now. "Be water", the city-wide pro-democracy movement in 2019 taught us, even though it may be dark and the suffering ahead seem endless, don't lose heart. We will remember who we are, what we stand for, persevere and outlive the tyrant.
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#China #democracy #freedomofspeech #standwithhongkong

Even the Chief Executive in #HongKong doesn’t know what the “dynamic zero” policy means, as as long as it’s a #CCP order, #HKers must follow.
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#internationaltravel #travel #carrielam

With the spiralling madness in #HongKong these days, we wonder... what would #AppleDaily say if they were still around? They would point out the lies and arrogance of the #CCP puppet government, they would expose the web of political networks among officials attending the stupid Witman Hung birthday parties, they would certainly report on the impossible sufferings #HKers are put thru with these crazy lockdown rules.
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What does the demise of Apple Daily mean? That the CCP would bend to nothing to crush its opposition, and #HK serves as an example to the world.
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#journalism #freedomofpress #pressfreedom #freedomofspeech #jimmylai #democracy

#HongKongers love our unique identity and culture, but there is a heavy political pressure from the #CCP to suppress and even eradicate it. Despite all this, there are still dedicated #HKers like Roy Chan who preserve and nurture it with their own philosophies. Maybe it is the worst of times, but maybe it is also the best of times for creatives.

“Change is constant” - this is what the new head of health bureau said, when asked about the #HongKong govt’s plan to go back on their words and control #HKers’ movement on a sham Covid app. I guess that’s what they thought about “Fifty years unchanged” too. 🙃🙃
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#CCP #China #health #leavehomesafe #Healthcode #freedom

The #BNO lifeboat scheme is expanded, thanks to the campaigning of #HongKongWatch. But this lifeboat will not be smooth sailing:
1) Reaching the #UK doesn't automatically guarantee safety, when #CCP is actively infiltrating the top levels of government. The scheme itself my be abused to infiltrate 🇬🇧 too.
2) Are the UK ready for #HongKongers? While the community is overwhelmingly supportive of freedom loving #HKers, there are also numerous opposing, especially as #Britain is facing a serious economic and energy crisis.
#China #BNO #immigration