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Lessons from Hong Kong Rebellion

“It was you who taught us peaceful protests don't work.”

A Hong Kong rebellion graffiti, 2 September 2019, ABC Four Corners

In preparation for the 9/11 show-down in Cambodia, there are 11 lessons from the current Hong Kong rebellion Hun Sen’s nemesis may want to adopt.

1.      Frontliners are backed by a brigade of self-organised medics, scouts, firemen, and supply runners.

2.      Use of black t-shirts as uniform and apparatus for safety and ID protection

3.      Quick groups meetings

4.      Use of umbrellas to avoid photo detections

5.      Use of laser beams to distract police

6.      Barricades to block roads

7.      Many decisions are made through discussions and voting on the spot

8.      No target for the authority – deliberate decision not to have a central leader in the protest actions after all known leaders have all been arrested.

9.      Use of online forums and encrypt apps like Telegram to communicate and vote on ideas for tactics and target locations, and to post warnings on locations and actions of the police

10.  Underground popup shops to sell gas masks, goggles, helmets, and hard hats, sales of which are restricted by authority

11.  “Be water” tactics – they appear and disappear from locations to location – to confuse and overwhelm the police

Details of these are in a report by Sophie McNeill of ABC’s Four Corners, broadcast on 2 September 2019. Below is the link to the full report.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g4N6Oe3g2Q

or, https://www.abc.net.au/4corners/rebellion/11472262

Consider and learn.


Ung Bun Ang
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