TNAG-0292-FCO40-328-Disturbances-in-Hong-Kong-bomb-attacks-and-threats-1971 — Page 37

Defend Chinese Tiao-Yu Islands Action Committee,

47 St. George's Avenue,

LONDON N.7.

17th July, 1971.

The British Government,

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20 JUL 1971

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In the evening of the 7th of July, 1971, the Hongkong British Authorities, under no warrantable circumstances, mobilised a large force of armed police to forcibly disperse in Victoria Park an orderly and peaceful sit-down demonstration against the U.S-Japan collusion to annex the Chinese Tiao-Yu Islands, to forcibly evict from Victoria Park the many thousands of ordinary folks within, and to continue pouncing and pounding on them out in the streets. The police, wielding truncheons, repeatedly charged the crowd, wounding numerous people six of whom, including reporters and innocent passers-by, sustained injuries of such severity as to require hospital treatment. This premeditated atrocious act of the Hongkong British Authorities is an utter negation of the basic rights of the people of Hongkong. At the news of this outrage, members of the overseas Chinese community here were driven to the greatest righteous indignation.

We hereby lodge before the British Government the strongest protest against the aforesaid atrocities committed by the Hongkong British Authorities in complete disregard of the basic rights of the people of Hongkong.

The British Government must at once take steps to ensure that the Hongkong British Authorities carry out immediately the following:-

1. Release unconditionally and without delay all those arrested during

or as a result of the above incident;

2. Undertake to guarantee that no such or similar incidents occur in

future;

3. Make a prompt public apology in admission of the atrocities committed

by the police;

4. Compensate fully all those who suffered damages on account of the

brutalities committed by the police.

5. Acknowledge to bear all consequences.

The British Government must hold itself wholly answerable to this and all future similar misconduct of the Hongkong British Authorites.

Defend Chinese Tiao-Yu Islands Action Committee.

The Prime Minister, 10 Downing Street, Whitehall.

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