HK legislator launches campaign to clean city’s streets; residents join in
By Zhao
Juecheng, Lu Wenao and Wang Wenwen
In a
day-long “Clean Hong Kong” campaign launched by Hong Kong pro-establishment
legislator Junius Ho Kwan-yiu and his supporters, the streets of all of the
city’s 18 districts underwent a coordinated cleaning on Saturday, September 21.
Around 9
am, Ho was seen in the town square of Tuen Mun holding a broom and cleaning
streets and he was joined by dozens of other people with brooms and dust-pans.
Speaking
to the Global Times around 11 am in
Shau Kei Wan, Ho said he launched the campaign to cheer up the Hongkongers and
rekindle their spirit as the city has been dealing with utter chaos stemming
out from three months-long violent protests. He hoped this campaign will unite
the Hong Kong people. .
Ho, who
has been vocal against violent protests that prevailed in Hong Kong, had called
for the cleaning up of the Lennon walls across the city that have cropped up in
footbridges, shopping centers, and pedestrian walkways. Democratic and
anti-government slogans, as well as demeaning and insulting words, and images
targeting certain people are stuck to these walls.
Global Times reporters witnessed Ho’s profile
photos pasted all over on the floor of a footbridge in Causeway Bay, which were
difficult to get rid of.
Lennon
walls have been a center of conflicts between protesters and those opposing
them, and in the past few months these Lennon walls have been the site of
several attacks and assaults.
On
August 20, a knife attack near one such Lennon wall message board in Tseung
Kwan O left three wounded.
On
Friday night, Ho announced on his Facebook page that his team would only clean
up rubbish from the streets due to “safety concerns” and they would do it with
a peaceful and rational attitude.
In his
conversation with the Global Times,
Ho said he did not worry about potential conflicts with opposition groups as he
and his followers were engaged in a peaceful activity rather than cleaning
Lennon walls where opposition groups put up their anti-government slogans.
“Some
young people have taken the wrong path and resorted to wrong strength, and I
hope today’s campaign can set a good example for them,” Ho added.
Despite
Ho’s call for not cleaning the Lennon walls, some Hong Kong residents still
took to the streets this morning to get rid of the slogans and posters of
opposition groups stuck to the walls and the ground, as seen by the Global Times reporters in the
vicinity of Yuen Long subway station and the Amoy Plaza in Kowloon Bay.
Hong Kong residents join in “Clean Hong Kong” campaign. (Photo by Lu Wenao from Global Times)
HK legislator launches campaign to clean city’s streets; residents join in
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