November 11 marks two years since the university sieges began in Hong Kong. Then, students were starved, “disappeared” and forced into suicide by Communist officers while standing bravely against Beijing. We should remember them, too.
We cannot give the Chinese Communist Party a free pass for its ongoing and relentless atrocities committed against political dissidents and minorities.
Beginning November 11 and ending on November 15, brave freedom fighters conducted a city-wide strike after student Alex Chow unexplainably fell to his death in a car park.
To this day, Hong Kong authorities have not determined the specifics behind Chow’s death due to a lack of security camera footage. The lack of answers into Chow’s passing inflamed protests who accused the police of being involved in the incident.
Throughout the region, protestors responded by erecting barricades and blockades throughout the city.
In clashes with the CCP-controlled police, officers on motorcycles attempted to run over protesters, a pregnant woman was attacked, and police officers shot at unarmed demonstrators.
These brutal tactics are only the surface of the CCP’s aggressive takeover of Hong Kong.
In our lifetimes, Hong Kong has transformed from a bastion of peace and freedom in the East into a stark example of Xi Jinping’s plans for the countries he wants to dominate.
Those who have died, been imprisoned or persecuted by the CCP should be remembered for standing against a tide of tyranny.
To this day, the CCP continues to impose a surveillance state on Hong Kongers and now has ambitions to invade Taiwan.
A loss of freedom in one country is a loss of freedom for all of humanity.
Remember Hong Kong.
