Comments on: Hong Kong police fire water cannons, gunshot, against protesters https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/hong-kong-police-fire-water-cannons-gunshot-against-protesters/ Mon, 26 Aug 2019 05:32:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Dick Eagleson https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/hong-kong-police-fire-water-cannons-gunshot-against-protesters/#comment-1070166 Mon, 26 Aug 2019 05:32:40 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=60322#comment-1070166 Actually, it did stop them 30 years ago. The PRC held off on slaughtering the Tiananmen Square protestors until all the Western press which had been covering the demonstrations there had been expelled. I am unaware of any extant footage of the actual massacre.

But personal video technology has come a long way in 30 years. I think the PRC understands that if it slaughters people by the thousands again, the deed will be caught on some sort of device – many of them, actually – and will get out. The images would also spread within China. That probably worries Beijing more than the certainty of their dirty work being seen by foreigners.

]]> By: Lee S https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/hong-kong-police-fire-water-cannons-gunshot-against-protesters/#comment-1070145 Sun, 25 Aug 2019 18:23:11 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=60322#comment-1070145 I can’t see this ending well…. China doesn’t have a great record of respecting human rights…. And the government there can have a short fuse….
The other side of the coin is that they know the whole world is watching… But that didn’t stop them in Tiananman square 30 years ago…
The politics involved here are labrinthine… It’s going to be “interesting” to see how it pans out….

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