This archive report was first published on 2 September 2019.
Published on September 2, 2019, Hong Kong's youth are maturing quickly, strengthened by their convictions, as they resist China's communist dictatorship, which has persecuted and oppressed people in Tibet, Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and mainland China.
When Britain handed control of Hong Kong to China in 1997, many thought it would be a new era of freedom. However, this move only led to the re-colonialization of Hong Kong, turning its residents into refugees in their own city, subservient to the authoritarian Communist regime in Beijing.
Many Hong Kongers are people who fled the mainland to escape a regime that starved tens of millions of its citizens decades ago, then murdered students in 1989 and has since persecuted political dissents incessantly. Today, that regime fuels Chinese nationalism on the mainland by delivering fragmented information and fabricated propaganda, or 'fake news,' to its people.
As the massive resistance movement in Hong Kong gains momentum, it is a call for the rest of the world to support our crusade for human dignity, equality, and freedom. The protesters at the front lines of these marches are doing no less than taking on that enormously powerful communist-cum-fascist regime.
As the 70th anniversary of the birth of the People's Republic of China approaches, the Chinese government wants grand celebrations, but Hong Kongers won't let it commemorate that day without a fight.
