Why Hongkongers are so angry
Because of a ruling class as worse as the Assads in Syria
It is something we have never witnessed since 2003. It is claimed by the organiser that a million people marched on the main streets on Hong Kong Island, to say no to an amendment bill to the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance, a local law concerning extradition.
The bill is branded as “送中” , which means handed to China, allowing extraditions to mainland China. People in town and even Hong Kong emigrants in other parts of world plunged in “perpetual fear”.
“Ordinary people like me, I think, will live in perpetual fear of breaking some law in China, and as we’re passing through Hong Kong we’ll be arrested and extradited,” as one protestor in Sydney claimed.
Prop up charges and even false convictions is not uncommon within in Mainland China’s justice system, where Kangaroo court justice is probably an understatement. Even foreign citizens like Gui Minhai from Sweden and Michael Spavor, Michael Kovrig from Canada, were arrested and simply vanished from the world. Gui even allegedly abducted from Thailand.
Carrie Lam, de facto mayor of Hong Kong has the final say on who can be extradited according the proposed bill. But Lam is regarded as puppet to Peking and its commissar in Hong Kong. People in Hong Kong are seriously suspicious to her and the regime, as I heard from a protestor while I was sitting in a Cafe next to the marching route and finishing this article.
The middle aged woman claimed Lam‘s whole family are British citizens, and they can escape form the city once finished her term. She can behave as badly as she can, and leave people, like her fellow protestors suffered from whatever the consequences her actions bear.
Not limited to Lam, heirs or heiresses of almost every top government official and upper class in Hong Kong are living aboard, studying (or once studied) abroad, and allegedly holding passports and nationality of Western nations. To me, it actually sounds exactly like families and cronies of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, and probably is why so many people angry at Lam and her cronies at the moment.
Hong Kong is not as war torn as Syria, but still there is obviously a lot of problems caused by mismanagement in these decades. But Assad alike cronyism certainly fueled the recent turmoils caused by the controversial bill.
