#OccupyCentral 100,000 Protesters Fill the Streets of #HongKong ---- Camera-Drone footage taken above #HongKong showing huge scale of the #protests there - which are being called the #UnbrellaRevolution #hkclassboycott #UmbrellaMovement Pro-#democracy activists have been out in the streets of Hong Kong since Friday, September 26th, when students gathered in a peaceful march to protest the Beijing central governments plans for the 2017 #election. Under the 1997 agreement that transferred Hong Kong from #British to #Chinese rule, in 2017 Hong Kong was supposed to be permitted to select its top leader via a democratic election. The #students took to the streets after the Chinese government indicated that it might renege on that promise. When police responded harshly to the student protests, thousands of Hong Kong residents flooded into the streets to join them, filling main roads, bridges, and sidewalks in Central, a neighborhood in the middle of the city. As the footage in the video above shows, by September 28th those protests had grown to massive size.
Posted on: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 21:20:32 +0000
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