Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced a formal withdrawal Wednesday afternoon of the extradition bill that sparked 13 weeks of protest and political crisis.
“The government will fully withdraw the bill in order to fully allay public concerns,” she said in a pre recorded TV broadcast just before 6 p.m.
Lam suspended the bill and later said it was “dead” but did not withdraw it, which critics said left open a legal possibility of reviving the bill.Since then, the anti-extradition-bill protests have morphed into a firestorm of increasingly violent clashes between protesters and police, and the bill has become a symbol for Beijing’s unwanted encroachment on Hong Kong’s semiautonomy.
Analysts say Beijing will find a way to repress protests by that deadline, though Lam said in a leaked audio recording reported by Reuters that there is no such deadline and that Beijing has no plans to deploy the People’s Liberation Army in Hong Kong. Others posted images of a man in a yellow rain jacket standing on top of a mall, the first of at least six people who’veProtesters also filled online forums with a slogan often chanted at demonstrations: “Five key demands, not one less.”
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