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The umbrella movement is seen as a preamble to Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement (Photo d'illustration). Photo: RFI / Heike Schmidt

Five years ago in Hong Kong, September 28 marked the beginning of an unprecedented peaceful revolt in the former British colony. For 79 days, tens of thousands of students blocked several arteries in the city, in three separate neighborhoods. It was to oppose a proposal for political reforms by Beijing, reforms that the Hong Kong rejected rejecting them as unacceptable because not "really" democratic.

From our correspondent in Hong Kong, Florence de Changy

"For our homeland, democracy now! Five years after the umbrella movement began , slogans have barely changed and Hong Kong is seeing Act II of its political revolt. The mobilization that began three months ago is generally seen as a continuation of the movement of five years ago.

Young leader Joshua Wong , one of the most recognized figures of the 2014 student movement, has chosen the symbolic day of the fifth anniversary of the umbrella movement to announce his candidacy for the district elections in November after a lobbying tour for Hong Kong in Germany and the United States.

" An even stronger determination "

" Five years ago, we said we would be back and we are now back, with even stronger determination and now with the support of millions of Hong Kongers, " he says.

But opposition MP Chu Hoi Dick recalls that the road is still long. " South Koreans have fought for 30 years to get democracy, a fight so long for Taiwan to get democracy. But we have shown that nothing can stop us in this fight, "he says.

Illustration of the continuing fight: the Chinese National Day of October 1 has already been renamed by the Hong Kong, "Day of National Tragedy".

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