Thread by @KongTsungGan

One year on from the death of Marco Leung Ling-kit at this exact spot, this is how #HK looks: nothing but a sea of green. #HKPoliceState

In spite of the repression, still quite a few brave citizens are gathered at Pacific Place, Admiralty, to remember Marco Leung's fall on June 15 last year. It was for many a moment of reckoning, of realizing how serious the #HK freedom struggle had become & the sacrifice required

Across #HK people are marking the 1st anniversary of the death of Marco Leung Ling-kit today, the 1st associated with the struggle against the extradition bill. Pro-democracy leaders on trial for unlawful assembly held 3min of silence before entering court

https://twitter.com/LianainFilms/status/1272427979872878593?s=20

Even in the most seemingly out-of-the-way places, memorials are found. Here on a street in Mei Foo, #YellowRaincoatMan. One reason for this 'spread-out' memorial is police make it difficult-to-impossible to gather anywhere publicly,such as at Pacific Place

https://twitter.com/SophieMak1/status/1272452882667720704?s=20

A #LunchWithYou protest in Tsuen Wan earlier today was dedicated to Marco Leung Ling-kit. People handed out white ribbons. (The call was for all to wear black shirts and white ribbons today to mark the occasion of his death.)

https://twitter.com/OfficalPshk/status/1272453742793654272?s=20

The queue to pay respects to Marco Leung at Pacific Place is now beginning to stretch back toward Central. This is remarkable given that just to show up, one must be prepared to do police stop&searches as well as threats of arrest or fines for violating social distancing rules.

Inside the Pacific Place mall, slightly less prone to police attacks, people are flying #LiberateHongKong #RevolutionOfOurTimes & #HongKongIndependence flags & chanting 'One Nation', 'Independence' & 'Independence, the only way out'.

The man on the left is singing, 'Sing Hallelujah to the Lord', a song I'd almost forgotten. It was often sung by Christians last June esp at situations of heightened tension btw police & protesters & was meant to calm the mood. Hasn't been heard in ages. The times have changed.

The flowers are quickly accumulating. People have begun constructing cardboard boxes for the flowers to go in. Last year at the 2-million+1 march on June 16, heaps of flowers stretched hundreds of meters down the road in this spot.

This is from about 5pm, 2hrs ago, when the shrine 1st started. It's grown quickly. Still a large police presence in the vicinity, but for now at least, they appear to have backed off, in striking contrast to gatherings at Prince Edward to mark 8/31 or in Yuen Long to mark 7/21.

The queue continues to grow, stretching back toward Central, hundreds waiting to pay respects to Marco Leung Ling-kit, the movement's 1st martyr. A somber moment for #HK people as we look toward the struggle ahead. How much more suffering&sacrifice must we endure for our freedom?

Here's the queue from the street side, stretching back several hundred meters from Pacific Place past the High Court, people lining up to pay their respects to Marco Leung Ling-kit on the first anniversary of his death at this spot.

This is where the queue to pay respects to Marco Leung ends at the moment, way back in the tunnel near the #HK Squash Centre in HK park. It must be nearly half a kilometer long.

Some great photos of the shrine to Marco Leung Ling-kit outside Pacific Place, Admiralty #HK, from PPP News.

This fast-motion video gives a sense of the length of the queue to honor Marco Leung. #HK people take their commemorations seriously. This also has to do w their hopes for HK. & in #HKPoliceState they'll take whatever opportunities they can get to demonstrate their beliefs.

This banner, seen earlier this evening in Pacific Place, may sum up the mood: 'As long as we're not yet dead, we won't retreat.' #香港人反抗

The yellow rain coat is the ubiquitous symbol of Marco Leung Ling-kit, aka #YellowRaincoatMan. These hung in Pacific Place mall, near the shrine. As the graffiti on the street in Mei Foo (see thread above) put it, 'His life may have ended, but not everything has come to an end.'

.@joshuawongcf & @nathanlawkc waiting to pay their respects to Marco Leung. These young people are already veterans; they've already been fighting nearly a decade for #HK's freedom. Their determination & persistence give us all hope.

As of 8pm, 2hrs after people started coming in large numbers, #HK citizens continue to stream to the shrine to Marco Leung. This is the 1st outdoor gathering since #June4 that police haven't attacked, even though it's right next to the road. What's up?

People have just sung a rousing rendition of #HK's true anthem #GloryToHongKong & are chanting protest slogans. Many are weeping. The air around the shrine is charged with grief & other emotions- love for HK, desire for freedom.

It's not just in Admiralty, where Marco Leung died, that #HK people are gathered this evening to commemorate his death. This memorial shrine is in Tuen Mun, way up in northwestern New Territories.

#GloryToHongKong sung in Pacific Place mall at around 7pm. Just outside, on the pavement, is the memorial shrine to Marco Leung Ling-kit. #HK people have such a strong, enduring love for their city that has only deepened over the past year. Up against this, how can the #CCP win?

This video is of the queue to pay respects to Marco Leung Ling-kit, as taken from a tram passing Pacific Place at around 7:30pm.

Hundreds gathered in Tuen Mun to mark the first anniversary of the death of Marco Leung Ling-kit, aka #YellowRaincoatMan. Across #HK, we all remember & we all pledge ourselves to fight for what Marco fought for, the freedom of Hong Kong.

The gatherings in Admiralty & Tuen Mun are in defiance of #HK govt's continuing ban on all public gatherings of more than 8, a ban that can only be political in intent given that people gather all over in HK in large numbers w/out being attacked: public transport, work places,etc

Nice photos from PPPNews of the memorial this evening in Tuen Mun to Marco Leung Ling-kit aka #YellowRaincoatMan.

20.44 at the shrine to Marco Leung Ling-kit aka #YellowRaincoatMan at Pacific Place, Admiralty, #HK.

Also in Tin Shui Wai, outside of Ginza mall, people are commemorating the death of Marco Leung Ling-kit aka #YellowRaincoatMan one year ago today. TSW is the 3rd place in #HK reported to hold such a commemoration tonight, after Admiralty & Tuen Mun.

Also in To Kwa Wan, a memorial tonight to Marco Leung Ling-kit aka #YellowRaincoatMan. The 4th place tonight in #HK reported to be commemorating his death, after Admiralty, Tuen Mun & Tin Shui Wai.

A #LiberateHongKong #RevolutionOfOurTimes flag's been hoisted on a flagpole in Admiralty. This is the sort of thing that tends to make the police very displeased. Though the flagpole was bare (ie, no PRC flag was removed). #光復香港時代革命

Three & a half hours in, the memorial for Marco Leung Ling-kit at Pacific Place, Admiralty is still going strong, the queue still backed up hundreds of meters.

People on the pedestrian bridge from Pacific Place to Admiralty MTR station wave their phones.

The number of flowers around the shrine continues to grow. People are actively trying to organize them in order to make room for more.

21.00 Video: People lay flowers at the shrine of Marco Leung Ling-kit aka #YellowRaincoatMan & sing #GloryToHongKong outside Pacific Place, Admiralty #HK. As of 21.50, the memorial's been going on nearly 4hrs with no end in sight.

A memorial for Marco Leung Ling-kit aka #YellowRaincoatMan has also taken place outside SOGO in Causeway Bay this evening. Other memorials have been held in Admiralty, Tuen Mun, Tin Shui Wai, To Kwa Wan & Kwun Tong.

The memorial in Admiralty to Marco Leung Ling-kit aka #YellowRaincoatMan has now been going on for over four and a half hours. Thousands are still waiting to pay their respects. Many have stood in a line that stretches hundreds of meters for an hour and a half.

At 23.03, more than 5hrs after it first began, the queue to pay respects to Marco Leung Ling-kit aka #YellowRaincoatMan has now finished. Huge outpouring of grief for Marco, love for #HK & desire for freedom. All peaceful, as on #June4, thanks to the fact the police weren't there

.@bewaterhkg: 'Remember our fallen. We will never forget why they laid down their lives, and we will continue fighting on until Hong Kong is free.'
Marco Leung Ling-kit, #YellowRaincoatMan, #RestInPower