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Hong Kong's Leader Yields to Protests, Suspends Extradition, Expresses “sorrow and regret”
Posted on 6/15/19 at 4:39 am
Posted on 6/15/19 at 4:39 am
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Hong Kong’s Leader, Yielding to Protests, Suspends Extradition Bill
Carrie Lam, Hong Kong’s chief executive, on Saturday expressed “sorrow and regret” for having failed to convince the public that an extradition bill was needed.
By Keith Bradsher and Alexandra Stevenson
June 15, 2019
HONG KONG — Backing down after days of huge street protests, Hong Kong’s chief executive, Carrie Lam, said on Saturday that she would indefinitely suspend a bill that would allow extraditions to mainland China.
It was a remarkable reversal for Mrs. Lam, the leader installed by Beijing in 2017, who had vowed to ensure the bill’s approval and tried to get it passed on an unusually short timetable, even as hundreds of thousands demonstrated against it this week. But she made it clear that the bill was being delayed, not withdrawn outright, as protesters have demanded.
“I believe that we cannot withdraw this bill, or else society will say that this bill was groundless,” Mrs. Lam said at a news conference. She said she felt “sorrow and regret” that she had failed to convince the public that it was needed.
City leaders hope that delaying the legislation will cool public anger and avoid more violence in the streets, said people with detailed knowledge of the government’s plans, including advisers to Mrs. Lam.
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Asked several times by reporters at the Saturday news conference whether she would resign, as protesters have demanded, Mrs. Lam indicated that she had no plans to do so, saying she would continue her work and improve efforts to communicate with the public. The people familiar with the government’s thinking said officials in both Beijing and Hong Kong had dismissed the calls for Mrs. Lam’s resignation.
Underlying opposition to the extradition bill is a growing fear that the freedoms that people in Hong Kong enjoy under the “one country, two systems” policy, put in place when the former British colony was returned to China in 1997, are rapidly shrinking.
Responding to local media reports on Saturday about a possible delay of the bill, Emily Lau, a former lawmaker and chairwoman of the city’s Democratic Party, said that she doubted the public would be quelled by such a move.
“People are asking for the bill to be withdrawn, if you just delay it that means they can just resume the second reading whenever they like,” Ms. Lau said. She added that a delay would simply result in another big turnout for the march on Sunday.
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Posted on 6/15/19 at 5:04 am to NC_Tigah
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This post was edited on 3/9/23 at 8:23 am
Posted on 6/15/19 at 6:22 am to NC_Tigah
Shortt term save for HK... damn shame it will eventually get rammed through.
What a piss poor apology “I’m sorry I wasn’t able to go against the overwhelming majority and ram through legislation that would hurt those people.... sorry not sorry”
What a piss poor apology “I’m sorry I wasn’t able to go against the overwhelming majority and ram through legislation that would hurt those people.... sorry not sorry”
Posted on 6/15/19 at 9:14 am to NC_Tigah
China is in the same position as the Iranian Mullahs. Neither can tolerate the status quo, less their Regime be challenged.
Posted on 6/15/19 at 9:14 am to NC_Tigah
Good for them.
Now if we'd just get off our lazy dead asses maybe they'd start arresting some of these corrupt bastards.
Now if we'd just get off our lazy dead asses maybe they'd start arresting some of these corrupt bastards.
Posted on 6/15/19 at 9:38 am to NC_Tigah
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Expresses “sorrow and regret”
I'm sorry you didn't allow me to implement a law that will allow the mainland to violate your human rights at will.
What a statement
Posted on 6/15/19 at 10:28 am to NC_Tigah
Does Carrie Lam get a state funeral after her "accidental death"?
Hong Kong is aleady in its death throes.
Lest we forget, Obama once praised the regime in China as a good way to get things done or words to that effect. I forget the actual quote.......
Hong Kong is aleady in its death throes.
Lest we forget, Obama once praised the regime in China as a good way to get things done or words to that effect. I forget the actual quote.......
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