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PERFORMANCES OF STREET DRAMA. THERE WERE A NUMBER OF OTHER SMALL COMMEMORATIVE MANIFESTATIONS AT VARIOUS SITES IN THE TERRITORY BUT THERE WERE NO UNTOWARD INCIDENTS.
NCNA COMPLAINT
5. YANG YOUYONG OF NCNA CALLED ON THE DEPUTY POLITICAL ADVISER
ON 3 JUNE TO DELIVER A PROTEST ABOUT THE DEMONSTRATIONS OUTSIDE NCNA ON 2 JUNE. HE SAID THAT THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE, LED BY THE HK ALLIANCE, HAD GATHERED OUTSIDE THE NCNA OFFICE CHANTING SLOGANS AND MAKING DEROGATORY SPEECHES AGAINST THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT USING LOUD HAILERS. SOME KMT ORGANISATIONS WERE INVOLVED, INCLUDING THE HK AND KOWLOON TRADE UNION COUNCIL AND THE HK ASSOCIATION OF CHINESE YOUTHS, AND THEY OPENLY WAVED THE TAIWAN KMT FLAG. THE SITUATION WAS PARTICULARLY UNACCEPTABLE BECAUSE AFTER THE POLICE ANNOUNCED THAT THE ASSEMBLY OF THE HK ALLIANCE HAD COME TO AN END AND ALL ACTIVITIES THEREAFTER WOULD BE REGARDED AS UNLAWFUL, A GROUP OF ABOUT 100 PEOPLE LED BY THE APRIL 5TH ACTION GROUP WAS ALLOWED TO STAY ONE. THEY WERE EVEN ALLOWED LATER TO PLACE AN EFFIGY COFFIN OUTSIDE THE NCNA OFFICE FOR HALF AN HOUR. THE CHINESE SIDE REGARDED THIS INCIDENT AS
SERIOUS AND PROVOCATIVE FOLLOWING THE SHOOTING INCIDENT LAST YEAR, THE INVESTIGATION RESULT OF WHICH REMAINED OUTSTANDING. CHEN RONGCHUN HAD MADE A VERBAL PROTEST CHE RANG EHRMAN AT 23.15 THE NIGHT BEFORE). HE (YANG) WAS INSTRUCTED TO PROTEST AGAIN.
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YANG THEN SAID HE ''SOLEMNLY ASKED THE HKG TO TAKE EFFECTIVE ACTION TO PREVENT SIMILAR INCIDENTS ''MASTERMINDED THE HK ALLIANCE AND THE APRIL 5TH ACTION GROUP FROM OCCURRING IN FUTURE. HE SAID THAT WE SHOULD HONOUR OUR COMMITMENT NOT TO TURN HK INTO A SUBVERSIVE BASE, AND SHOULD MAINTAIN SINO-BRITISH RELATIONSHIP AND STABILITY IN HONG KONG. YANG SAID HE EXPECTED A FORMAL RESPONSE FROM HKG.
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DPA RESPONDED BY SAYING THAT THERE WAS FREEDOM OF SPEECH IN
HONG KONG: OPINIONS EXPRESSED MIGHT BE CRITICAL OF HKG OR ANY OTHER GOVERNMENTS. THERE WAS NO QUESTION OF PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM EXPRESSING THEIR VIEWS. HE THEN SAID THAT THE POLICE WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAINING PUBLIC ORDER. THEY HAD BEEN GIVEN THE DISCRETION TO HANDLE THE SITUATION ON THE GROUND AS THEY SAW BEST. HE HAD RECEIVED A REPORT FROM THE POLICE ON THE 2ND JUNE DEMONSTRATION. GIVEN THE MOOD OF THE CROWD AT THAT TIME, THE POLICE HAD SOUGHT TO CALM PASSIONS AND ENCOURAGE THEM TO DISPERSE PEACEFULLY. IN SUCH CIRCUMSTANCES IT WOULD BE FOOLISH TO DEAL
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