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Antony Dapiran
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Antony Dapiran
@antd
Writer/Lawyer/Photographer. Author of Walkley-nominated book “City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong” (@scribepub).
Joined March 2007
- In TST, a protester helps a food stall vendor who has been affected by tear gas to wash out his eyes. Another one gives him a pair of goggles.
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00:00- Quiet again for now at #PolyU as face-off continues. Every so often the police vehicles emit an ear-piercing siren & protesters respond with a megaphone playing Für Elise. Really not sure which is worse.
00:00 - Nathan Rd, Yau Ma Tei, Monday afternoon. Thousands of protesters and supply chains stretching further than I can see, at least a kilometer or more.
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00:00- A VIDEO THREAD: How did HK protesters use hand signals & human chains to get supplies quickly to front lines on Monday? Here, they need more helmets at the front line at LegCo doors. What to do? The hand signal for “helmets” is passed from the front line through the crowd...
00:00 - This. If this was happening in any other civilised place, the political leadership would be speaking to the people, seeking to calm, reassure, explain, at least justify. But HK has to cope not only with the ongoing events but with SILENCE from Lam and her government. Shameful.Replying to @Nrg8000Meanwhile the city is completely bereft of leadership, Carrie Lam has disappeared and has ceded control of policy and the city more broadly to a police force that has radicalised and hardened over protests. Without accountability they can do whatever they want. And they are.
- How to politicize & radicalize a generation:
- Can’t believe what I’m watching. This is a Monday morning in HK.
- An eerie scene as protesters are cloaked in clouds of tear gas on Granville Rd, TST
00:00 - Basic Law Art 22: “No department of the Central People's Government...may interfere in the affairs which the HKSAR administers on its own in accordance with this Law.”
- Mass barring of pro-democracy legislators from running in LegCo elections (which may be delayed anyway). Not surprising, but also death knell for any pretense HK had to even a semi democratic system.
- Excellent @guardian editorial: HKers "see protest actions as spawned by police violence & a govt that can only crack down, never compromise... HK’s gov must rely on police because it does not have support of the public."
