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Tension is still rising in Hong Kong after a wave of arrests and the ban on the big demonstration scheduled for August 31. Saturday will mark five years of Beijing's refusal to grant the election to Hong Kong by universal suffrage, triggering a month later the "umbrella movement".
With our correspondent in Hong Kong, Florence de Changy
Prohibition to demonstrate as planned this Saturday may ultimately provoke the opposite of the expected effect. For if the police opposed this march for fear of overflowing , especially around the Chinese Liaison Office, the ban on this march has increased the anger of the most radical protesters. On some online conversation threads, some speak of the " last battle " and even say they are ready to die.
Aggravating factor, the ban fell on the same day as a wave of arrest of several recognized figures of the movement , although the police said it was pure coincidence.
Beijing rejects Carry Lam's crisis resolution plan
In addition, according to information from Reuters, the head of the executive Carrie Lam would have proposed to the central government several ways to defuse the crisis in early August. Proposals that have been rejected by Beijing : out of the question to make the slightest concessions to the protesters.
If the Hong Kong government is not allowed to give up anything and if the demonstrators are, as some say on social networks, ready to die to save Hong Kong, hard to imagine a positive way out of the crisis.
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