> “It suddenly all changed when in July 2019 A mob of over 100 armed men dressed in white indiscriminately attacked civilians on the streets and passengers in the Yuen Long MTR station ...”
There is no mystery about it anymore. It is now widely known as the 721 incident (July 21) where a mob of white-clad gangsters carrying sticks and pipes appeared in streets of Yuen Long (a HK district) and beat up anyone and everyone happened to be there. Police didn’t show up despite repeated calls. When they finally arrived, they escorted the mob to leave the scene instead of arresting them, totally different from how they had treated protesters and even ordinary citizens. The pro-China lawmaker Junius Ho was filmed near the scene patting the gang members on the back congratulating them for a job well done. Curiously, last week Ho was ‘attacked’ by a man whose physical appearance immediately reminded me of those gang members.
Then there was the horrific 831 incident (Aug 31) where a group of riot police boarded a Mass Transit Railway Car that was stopped (at the Prince Edward station I believe) and began violently beating everyone on board. It was absolute mayhem from the short footage I saw, and many people were believed to have been killed based on statements from witnesses and rescuers. The government had denied everything and had so far refused the people’s demand to release the complete surveillance tapes of the whole incident.
About the case where a man was set on fire, people have already uncovered suspicious things. Not going into detail here except to say that it is very easy to carry out a sensational false flag operation like that giving the government a strong reason to condemn the protesters.
But more than that, it is now in the government’s interest to dial up the level of violence and chaos so that they can have a perfect excuse to postpone or even cancel the upcoming district elections where all pro-China candidates (now the majority) are at risk of losing.
No normal person would want to see something like this happen to anyone even without knowing much about the case. Assuming the protesters are indeed at fault, simply condemning them without addressing the root cause will not do anything to stop similar incidents from happening again or bring peace.
Some latest statistics from HK: Between June and September 2019, compared to the same period last year, suicide cases increase by 34, body-found cases increase by 311 (many of these were also ruled suicides). I should add that if the numbers from October up to today are added, the increases should be much higher.
Given the increasing police brutality and lawlessness, and without any official justification for the increases, it is not difficult to believe many of the deaths are connected to the protests. When we condemn the protesters for their actions, who is going to condemn the people who started it all and who continue to add more and more fuel to the fire? Ordinary citizens, not just protesters, risk becoming a statistic out in the streets everyday, when just saying something bad about the police, like calling them gangsters, will get you arrested.
And look at how they make an arrest. In almost every case, the person is wrestled to the ground and pinned with a knee on the neck. That’s why we see injuries to the head in almost all arrest photos when people hit the street head first. When one considers that the entire weight of the body can be put on the knee, no wonder so many protesters could easily be killed. In this particular photo, I wonder where the right knee of the second cop is, and there seems to be another leg on the boy's body as well (just above the fingers).
Here is the bottom line, on one side, we have the protesters with the support of the majority of the citizens, on the other, there is the Chinese Communist Party who is desperately trying to suppress the protests by any means possible. Why is it so difficult for some to see who the bad guy is in this fight?