“We will give all we can give because we want to see a free world in our city and in our home.' IanPannell talks to young protesters who are risking everything in Hong Kong:
It has become something of an anthem for the youth of Hong Kong, who believe they are now engaged in an existential struggle for the future of this small, high-rise patch of east Asia.
Clad in black, with helmets, face masks, protective padding and backpacks, Citizen X and his crew were an intimidating sight: part ninja, part Manga warriors. They are part of a hardcore cadre of thousands of like-minded young activists who were often seen at the vanguard of these protests. They say that they are ready to defend and ready to fight if needed and know they could pay for this with their liberty or even their life.
Make no mistake, this is about much more than the proposed extradition law that sparked the latest round of protests. For the majority, it is about guaranteeing the freedom and democracy they feel they were promised after the handover from British to Chinese rule in 1997, but for a minority it is about something that sets off alarm bells in Beijing: independence.
The protesters say they have five key demands, plastered on posters across the city and"air-dropped" into people's phones: withdraw the extradition bill that triggered this latest round of protests, establish an independent inquiry into police actions, stop describing the protests as riots, drop all charges against protesters and introduce universal suffrage.
Speaking earlier this month, Liu Xiaoming, the Chinese ambassador to London, issued a stark warning: “We have enough solutions and enough power to put this to an end”. Chinese paramilitary police have also been filmed by the government staging exercises just across the border on Shenzen, in what many regard as a thinly veiled threat.
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