(1) Welcome to the WTF Hong Kong Protest Series - "We're too chicken to play hero in Ukraine but admire refugees" Special Edition #RaamWTF
3 McBNO migrants from Hong Kong, who now live in the UK, headed for Ukraine to join the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Foreign Volunteer
(2) Corps, hoping to take up logistical & medical positions- some also hoped to do less dangerous tasks such as picking up refugees & distributing supplies
Meet Spencer, 25-year-old McBNO migrant, who "can't sit still" seeing the conflict in Ukraine after having experienced HK's
(3) 2019 riots - armed with his amateur shooting training in Taiwan, he declared: "freedom is not free. Many people use corpses & blood to exchange for the freedom of this generation", but failed to explain whether he'd accept it if he turned into one of those useful corpses or
(4) spilled his own blood (you wanne bet?)
Meet Alice, McBNO migrant & a former nurse from HK - the next day after she & Spencer contacted the Ukrainian Embassy in the UK, they couldn't wait for a reply & headed straight for Krakow in Poland on 1 March - the 6th day of the war
(5) - for a 3-hour drive from the nearest border crossing - after negotiating with the Ukrainian Volunteer Corps contact via email, Alice was assigned to the medical team, & Spencer was allowed to accompany her despite having no medical background - the Ukrainian side
(6) would pick them up from a hostel, pass through Rzeszów, a city in southeastern Poland, & send them to a military base near the border to wait for deployment - so an impulse from a few days ago was about to become reality - a few hours before the departure, the magnificent duo
(7) hurriedly drafted a will & began to plan for the worst - Spencer lamented: "We decided to go, we have this mental preparation, the point is - how we would die" - they were picked up & driven to a meeting point at an old hotel in a border town, where they saw a dozen soldiers
(8) in military uniforms & war correspondents from Norway - then came the shock - the passion & excitement of the two cooled down when they were presented with a contract they had never heard of or seen - it turned out that all participants in the Foreign Volunteer Corps, incl
(9) those serving as medics, had to sign a contract before entering Ukraine - the validity period of the military contract is set at the end of martial law in Ukraine - i.e. until the end of the war, with no definite end point; in other words, once in, the two have no right to
(10) leave Ukraine as long as the war is not over (Damn, mummy & daddy didn't warn them!) - Spencer lamented that he didn't expect they would take away his passport - Alice's first reaction was to resist: "I do volunteer work, not for high pay or good benefits & should at least
(11) have the right to be able to quit at any time" - a BBC correspondent has checked this with Ukraine's First Deputy Minister, Yevhen Yenin, who said that foreign volunteer corps participants would 'sign a contract to get a military passport, which will replace theirs - these
(12) foreigners want to become Ukrainian citizens, & we will help them with this in a legal manner” (the Ukrainian Govt claimed that 20,000 people from 52 countries have signed up to join) - poor Alice & Spencer probably hasn't figured out that Boris Johnson has warned people in
(13) the UK not to travel to Ukraine, & that doing so could violate anti-terrorism laws, & such this could ruin their McBNO dream - just when the two were anxious about the terms of the contract, the excitement and eagerness of several volunteer soldiers from other countries
(14) made the them even more hesitant: "They were probably a bunch of gun enthusiasts...like obsessed" Spencer said - after some ideological struggle, the two decided to return to Poland on their own, as they wouldn't know "for how long they could take this mentally" - Spencer &
(15) Alice returned to Krakow Railway Station, hoping to find a way to do their bit for Ukrainian refugees - Alice said that she felt a rush of admiration upon seeing thousands of refugees arriving by train
Meet HK "pastor" named Roy Chan 陳凱興, who
(16) heads "Good Neighbour Church England" (just a tiny group of HK fugitives & riot supporters hijacking the UK with the words "church" & "England"), who managed to enter Lutsk in western Ukraine the day after Spencer & Alice had returned back
(17) More on McBNO "pastor" Roy Chan
(18) Roy Chan & his church mates traveled to Odessa to deliver supplies such as medicines to the elderly living alone who have not been evacuated - 4 other members stayed in the Polish border town of Chelm, distributing food at a refugee centre - Chan said he "couldn't bear to
(19) see Ukraine fighting alone" as he had "the same suffering during the HK riots"- but Roy Chan wouldn't want you to know that he ended up a fugitive in the UK as he's wanted by the HK police for money laundering as he was allegedly to have kept HK$18 million of crowdfunding
(20) donations meant for helping rioters to himself - his alleged act was uncovered after 20 of his former church members in HK issued a statement announcing their resignation as they didn't want to be associated with him & his money laundering charges
(21) 好鄰舍北區教會宣布停運-創辦人陳凱興曾涉欺詐及洗黑錢被通緝 - link for news report on the money laundering charges mentioned in (19) & (20)
hd.stheadline.com/news/realtime/…
(22) Link for the BBC Chinese language feature on the journeys of Spencer, Alice & "pastor" Roy Chan
bbc.com/zhongwen/trad/…
(23)
(24) link for English news report on the money laundering charges against Roy Chan mentioned in (19) & (20) - courtesy of @OuahOuah88
scmp.com/news/hong-kong…
(25) SCMP Opinion: "A profile of 2 HK “BN(O)ers” by the Chinese-language service of the BBC offers great insights into a certain type of mentality common among local young people"
scmp.com/comment/opinio…
(26) Chinese text of meme (fm @hkmisanthrope): Reality doen't match your expectations? (On tee, Hong Kong youth): "Let's join the army in Ukraine!" "Declaration of expectation to die (on contract with Ukrainian flag), leave behind passport..." 🐸 : "It ain't a war game,
(27) you want revolution, you'll need to sacrifice your life"
(27) Survey: Should these two brave UK citizenship-seeking McBNOers from Hong Kong change their names to:
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