100,000 march for Democracy in Hong Kong
from the
Financial Times
bq. Chanting 'we want democracy - one man one vote", protestors wound through busy shopping districts, starting in Causeway Bay and ending nearly three kilometres later at the main government offices in Central.
bq. Lee Cheuk Yan, a pro-democracy member of the Legislative Council and an organiser of both Thursday's march and the July 1 event, said about 100,000 participated. Hong Kong police did not give an estimate of numbers.
bq. "It is a clear message to the government that the issue of democracy is very much alive in Hong Kong," he added.
bq. Thursday's orderly march will remind the government of Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong's Beijing-appointed leader, as well as the Chinese leadership itself that despite an improvement in the economy and the abandonment of controversial security legisalation, interest in democratic reform persists.
The July 1 march mentioned in the article drew half a million people.
Posted by DaveH at January 1, 2004 1:20 PM