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Hong Kong Facing ‘Tiananmen Square’ Moment – As Plea Is Made For UN Intervention | World | News
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On May 30, 2020
Human rights observers fear the immovable grinding stone of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement are set to collide with tragic consequences on the eve of the anniversary of Tiananmen Square on June 4. The 1989 massacre saw a Chinese government crackdown that led to the murder of 10,000 demonstrators. Doctor Darren Mann a surgeon and Humanitarian Law expert who has worked in Hong Kong for 25 years told Express.co.uk: “I am making calls for a UN Special Envoy and Red Cross, ICRC, humanitarian observers to be deployed to Hong Kong as a matter of urgency.
“The public threat to life when impassioned large scale civil rights protests meet unyielding aggressive police posturing is clear.
The surgeon, who has been a leading witness at the UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on Human Rights Abuses in Hong Kong, said: “Can anything other than the intervention of the United Nations and the custodians of humanitarian law, the International Committee of the Red Cross, now prevent the horror of Tiananmen 2.0 in Hong Kong.”
Doctor Mann has given testimony on the harassment and arrest of healthcare workers and the misuse of healthcare transport, facilities, and confidential information by Hong Kong law enforcement amid the protests in the city.
He added: “The United Nations has already been openly critical of Hong Kong law enforcement conduct that fails to recognise symbols of medical protection as evidenced by arbitrary arrest and detention of volunteer medical professionals, misuse of ambulances and abuses within hospitals.”
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Calls for a UN special envoy to observe human rights in the city before it is too late have also come from the last Governor of Hong Kong, Chris Patten.
Lord Patten said: “The creation of a UN special envoy for Hong Kong would contribute both to monitoring human rights and encouraging dialogue and reconciliation.
“Many UN member states would see it as a constructive proposal worthy of support.”
https://thesunnews.co.uk/hong-kong-facing-tiananmen-square-moment-as-plea-is-made-for-un-intervention-world-news/
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