Thread by @yskevinhuang

10/01: Within an hour of the #LennonWall being built at Aberdeen Station, pro-CCP Mainland Chinese nationalists are destroying it and intimidating people. Ugly, disrespectful actions.

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📍Richmond, Canada.
#HongKongProtests #cansaveHK

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(not in video but important situational context) Lennon Wall Organizers and event-goers reported on the telegram group that they are being followed by Pro-CCP people as they leave the event. They don't feel safe.

Police stepped in, luckily. Pics coming.

Pro-CCP people, translated:

"It's our freedom (to be here and destroy the wall)."
"China killed people? Hong Kong killed people. Hasn't Canada killed people too?"
"It's you that started insulting us."
"Doesnt Canada doesn't have problems too?"
"Who hit who? No one hit anyone"

This is what the #LennonWall at Aberdeen Station looked like before its destruction. It was constructed within an hour but didn't last long with nationalists already waiting to swoop in to wreck it.

Guess what: the pro-HK people stayed and cleaned it all up after. Class act.

Another video/view of the Pro-CCP Chinese nationalists destroying the wall:

Another series of video of the nationalists ripping apart the Lennon Wall.

Young person along with Auntie and Uncle tries to stop them

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Part 2/3

Featuring nonchalant Auntie standing in their way.

Part 3/3

More assertive Uncle and Auntie.

(More pics and video streaming in. I was not there but have been granted permission by people to share these pics and videos.)

Ugh. Look at how bare it is after the attack.

Reiterating here: Pro-HK Lennon Wall builders stayed and cleaned up the wall and area this degree. Which side has the decency of respect and appreciation of public spaces?

IMPORTANT CONTEXT:

This event was organized by HIGH SCHOOL students who wanted to do something to show support for the #HongKongProtests. They came after school to start building the wall. Others came to show support.

True #HongKongWay, it turned out to be intergenerational.

Cops intervening. Good.

Once more: As the situation was developing, many of us were getting live updates about how people did not feel safe at site or leaving.

(Thx to ??? for sharing pics and vids w/ me. Thx for attending, documenting, and trusting me to help spread the news.)

More happenings today:

There was a #HongKongProtests rally at the University of British Columbia (UBC) main campus. It was met with counter protestors.

Organizers shared with me how Pro-CCP nationalists threw water on their signs and were physically aggressive.

Coverage by news outlet CBC folks who were on site at UBC:

https://twitter.com/ltritsch1/status/1179167315306266624

Shirt of Pro-CCP Mainland Chinese Nationalists at the UBC counter protest:

"Respect China's Territorial Sovereignty"
"Tibet belongs to Chinatown"

Uh...sure, if the Chinese gov (Chinese Community Party) stops with the human rights abuses and cultural minority group genocide.

And... a video was just shared with me about the nationalists throwing water and then rubbing out the chalk writing and signs with their feet.

Note the physical confrontation.

UBC - take note, this is on campus.

More happenings from today coming:

A pro-HK UBC student organizer shared with me how this #LIHKG pig* was put up with permission inside the Life Sciences building. It was taken down within 12 hours by nationalists.

*mascot for popular Hong Kong forum which has become one of the symbols of the #HongKongProtests

In addition to filming themselves taking down the protest art, there is also Wechat conversations between the nationalists of trying to track down the HK student organizers who put up the #LIHKG pig.

Doxxing is real threat; this is partially why I'm sharing these stories.

There is also a developing situation of the UBC Alma Mater Society (AMS) approving a Lennon wall that was almost immediately attacked by Pro-CCP nationalists.

@TheFallingStar has the details:

https://twitter.com/thefallingstar/status/1179221614896074752?s=21

@TheFallingStar More videos coming in:

@ UBC - the nationalists chanting "take off [your] masks". I heard this at the Vancouver City-Hall back in August as well.

No, masks are to keep self and family safe. CCP is known to make political dissidents 'disappear' + doxxing.

Wow. They are shouting at someone who speaks mandarin for supporting the pro-Hong Kong side. Basically calling them a traitor as mandarin is the national (read: colonial) language of Mainland China.

From source: the pro-HK mandarin speaker was trying to ease the situation.

And this type of aggression by pro-CCP nationalists happened TODAY in Ottawa as well.

Shared by @chercywong, organizer out there:

https://twitter.com/chercywong/status/1179262601823444992

@chercywong To read up on the Metro Vancouver region (Canada) support for the #hongkongprotests, here's a thread of threads of events and rallies that I have covered:

https://twitter.com/yskevinhuang/status/1174071744887287808

#香港加油 ！
#freeHongKong
#cansaveHK

@chercywong And... a full length 6 minute HD clip of what happened at Aberdeen Station has been share with me:

You can see the full sequence of events from destruction of the #LennonWall, shouting matches, police showing up, to organizers cleaning up the mess.