Education Department to 'fire' them.
Political persecution : the "Revolutionary Marxist League" incident
In Oct. 1977, five old teachers who supported the new prin-
cipal had dinner in Miss Ewan's home. In the course of their
conversation, the telephone rang and Miss Kwan went to answer
it. Then she returned, she sold the five teachers that a high
ranking government official told her that the three represen-
tatives of the teachers in the financial scandal were members
of the "Revolutionary Marxist League", a local Trotskyite orga-
nization. It was a blemish, she said, and the teachers should
try to make this known to the public.
Misconceived by the information supplied by Miss Kwan, the
five teachers .felt that 'justice' should prevail. Mr. Lau Sze-
lim, the only male teacher among the five, encouraged by the
two other teachers, Miss Leugg Sin-ling and Miss Lau Siu-chun,
and promoted by a sense of 'righteousness', wrote letters to
different newspapers 'exposing' the 'political background' of
the teachers.
It was
Another letter to the editor which defamed the teachers
as trouble-makers also appeared in some newspapers.
known later that Miss Lau siu-chun wrote it. The two letters
were published repeatedly in most of the newspapers la Hong Kong
from Oct. 17 1977 to 23m 1977.
Hong Kong has a very delicate political situation and people
are very sensitive to things in connection with politics. Such
a plot, if successful, would not only have ruined the teaching
career of the teachers but also made the whole public suspect
the motive of the exposure of the financial irregularities in
the school, regardless of the validity of the charge. However,
neither the Education Department nor the School Management Com-
mittee latendea to clarify the impeachment.
wegertheless, the
truth was finally confessed by mr. Lau Sze-lim himself.
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