Every night at 10 p.m., Hong Kong neighborhoods and university dorms echo with p...
HONG KONG - Every night at 10 p.m., Hong Kong neighborhoods and university dorms echo with pro-democracy and anti-government chants, the latest form of protest in the Chinese-ruled city where a civil disobedience movement has been going on for more than 12 weeks.
Over the past week, residents were seen out on their balconies or opening their windows to shout “Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of our times”, “Ga Yao!” - a Cantonese expression of encouragement often translated as “Add oil” - or simply vent expletives toward police and the government. “I think its value is far higher. It shows how Hong Kongers are united in this movement and how the spirit is spread across every district.”
During the 1979 Iranian Revolution, residents of Tehran defied curfews to shout “Allahu akbar” from their rooftops - a gesture echoed in the city during 2009 protests against the re-election of Iran’s then-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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