Inside the Deadly Riots that Shaped Hong Kong | I Was There 

If its not beneficial for the Party, then its not Beneficial for anyone.

Sane for the UK. Back when the UK use to against protests in HK and now they praise them.

*Same

You are a total racist

@@eddiebingbong7977 How is it racist?

and landscape with lantau island and stuff

I am a proud Hongkonger to understand this history that changed the future generations of my people and my homeland.

Nothing fascinating with the Communist China infiltrated deadly riots in Hong Kong. If you are as old as I am you won't appreciate so much and try to quickly turn the page.

world always been trash ...

Life is exciting

@@dimmacommunication pretty much

Vice hired many extreme Asian-americans who are white haters. They hate everyone who is white and misunderstand world history. This video is absolute propaganda. The 67 Riot was engineered by the CCP and the Hong Kong communists put bombs all over the city. This guy was one of them and he dared not mention his "comrades" mailed a bomb to civilians and two children were killed point blank when they opened the mail. The whole city saw pictures in the papers of their intestines coming out when they opened the leftists' parcel. The whole city was terrorized by them and they were very rightfully sent to jail by the British authority. He deserved his jail time. He didn't go to jail just because he went to a China-based secondary school. My uncle went to one too but he didn't hurt any civilians so he was fine and went to university as he wished. This guy is a liar and you can tell how many holes there are in his story.

Im still loving 2009-2016

Get this mans dad an interview

I would love to know more about your father. Mine was a Senior Inspector, killed by a bomb on November 5, 1967.

I'm a professor in Canada teaching HK history. I'm very interested in hiring your dad.

was - and still is!

@@katherinef001 indeed

It should remind you that the definition of freedom can change completely over the course of a few generations. What they rioted for in 1967 is very different to what they protest for today.

Are americans free? They cant even ban guns

True

Because it’s a reactionary narrative meant to stir up anti-China hate. Years of protesting and not one person killed by the police. While there are protests all over the world actually being violently cracked down with hundreds killed by actually oppressive governments. “Revolution of our time” my ass

@@elchapojunior3091 oh look, complete bs.

@@TeosAntagonian Do you have any documented case of a protestor being killed? Covering Hong Kong is a waste of time when you have real crack downs on protests happening in Myanmar, Columbia, etc. But you don’t actually care about protestors, just spreading “the See See Pee BAD!” narrative

@@elchapojunior3091 Thiers been documented cases of HK protesters disappearing and never to be heard from again. Also theirs been suspicious deaths of some HK protesters that were labeled suicides by the police.

@@twinbee13monsterhunter Yes, it is totally suspicious that a few young women are committing suicide lol. Fact is every case of people being killed during the protests is done by the protestors. They have beat and/or set on fire multiple people

Don't tell this to wumao/50cent army

To be fair, there were people who genuinely subscribed to Mao Tze Tung thought on their own volition (and there still are). It’s a valid, if controversial political stance, and the riots had the effect of forcing the colonial government into enacting reforms

Yep. Royal Hong Kong Police did their damn job in '67.

No freedom of speech and election now, yes

Well it was freer than almost all Asian countries up until late 80s, when Taiwan and South Korea democratize

Now it fits into the wests agenda

Fortunately at least in America the protesters who were brutalized were eventually vindicated and liberated from authoritarian thugs and unlawful state brutality. Sad we didn't see the same for HK.

No, but it does rhyme

Yeah, Im pretty sure most of the current Hong Kong citizens wish they were still under the UK. They're getting oppressed thanks to idiots like this guy who actually thought communism was a good idea.

@@thotslayer9914No, because its as much of a thing as a virgin orgy is.

Yeah! Just like how communists amid their wrong doing in the past like back in the Mao era and yet keeping the title to communism for no matters of all sorts of hell! Yet, freighting water with the same wicked bowl!

Very insightful, thanks. Did labor laws become more fair after the riots? It's interesting how in British Hong Kong he was allowed to be a devout Communist and open Mao supporter. If only people in Communist China had such freedoms of political choice.

@@anonymouse527 Did labor laws become more fair after the riots? YES. colonial government made so many changes, and basically the HK that we used to know was created shortly after the riots

thank you for the more education!

Based

Yeah I don't think this was translated very well, Vice showing their bias. I'm pretty sure I heard there were riots in hongkong about 10 times in the first three minutes. Then all I read was British forces and white terror

British PoIice in HK 1970's : KiIIs 30 protesters Chinese PoIice in HK : KiIIs 0 during 3 years of vioIence

@@user-qj4tv6gc9l Two words, context and efficiency of alternative means.

@@user-qj4tv6gc9l wtf

@@user-qj4tv6gc9l you do realise why both side have death right during 1967

@@PS-nf3xw efficiency?

He's coming out as a Mao worshipper. What's so brave about it? CCP loves him.

@@gskyle4822 i don't know too much about China's politics or leaders. But unless VICE had posted this video & took the time to interview this man, i honestly wouldn't think to parallel the events from 1967 to current day. History is interesting. Sorry I called him brave for agreeing to sit down & be interviewed about it. Lol.

@@graceramirez4203 He's been doing this for years. going around claiming that he's innocent, asking for a pardon. He's clearly a commie sympathiser and downplaying all the terrible things commies did.

@@graceramirez4203 He is literally a Maoist communist in Hong Kong. A city now ruled by the puppet government of red China.

@@gskyle4822 It’s brave of him because by standing for his beliefs he could so easily be trolled, doxxed, set on fire in the street and even killed by HK’s “poor, defenceless, peaceful pro-democracy protesters”

British colonisation was brutal for 156 years. The apartheid was a very hard time for my family back then. When I go back to HK I can still see the - no chinese allowed signs- in the buildings in HK. Shanghai and Qingdao was also partly colonised. Shanghai by the French and Japanese Qingdao by the Germans and Japanese Macau by the Portuguese and Japanese HK by the British and Japanese

you give a finger they take the whole arm

IDK if it was much worse, but yeah human life was just not that valuable back then - whether you ultimately a slave to corporations or a dictator. If your government isn't representative, this is the inevitable result.

@Sean Yeah. I will take that apparently hot take that living under both Mao and British colonial rule sucked back then. I guess democracy is good is also a hot take these days?

Um......Xi Jinpeng is ruling like Mao right now. More tactfully, yes but still more controlling than the past few CCP chairmans.

@@monsieurdorgat6864 Life in Hong Kong then was fine, in fact many Hong Kongers miss the period of British rule, since the British Government wasn't making constant attempts to deny Hong Kongers basic civil rights. Millions of Chinese immigrated from mainland China to Hong Kong, escaping Communist rule. The 1967 riots were the only major civil unrest during British rule (compared to 1/7 of the population protesting in 2014 and 2019), and was largely orchestrated by Communists from Mainland China, rather than Hong Kongers.

@@markhenley3097 What made Hong Kong different from India, per British colonialism? They don't exactly have a great track record, but admittedly I'm more familiar with their time in India than Hong Kong. It also seems like Hong Kong has been better off ruling themselves, so I don't really see the nostalgia?

You have a very loose definition of a coup.

Chad is in Africa

@@Lions-7539 I ment like chad vs virgin meme not the country chad lol 😂

They holding Mao just like they hold "five demands" a few years ago.

Idk much about Hong Kong politics, but could it just be Chinese Nationalism they were feeling at the time? I know today many Hong Kong citizens don't particularly like the mainland Chinese government.

@@chaosong6132 No they're not. Mao killed 55 million people in the Big Leap Forward. HK protesters killed no one.

@@DaLatinKnight it was at the height of CCP's cultural revolution and CCP wanted to copy the 12-3 incident took place in Macau a year ago that took over macau's control, so incited the riots.

@@chaosong6132 The simility ends with "people holding something when protesting". The 1967 riot was to overthrow UK rule with CCP's authorian rule. The 2019 protest is to oppose CCP's encroachment on HK's freedom. So was 2014 umbrella movement and 1 July 2003 march.

So what is the solution?

bruh britian literally stole hk from china but ho off lol

Fax

That would have been under the authority of the governor of Hong Kong. Prime Minister of the UK would only be briefed about it at best.

Wikipedia lol

They were

@@repeatedaction4273 but the video showed otherwise

Oh how wrong were you, its a colonial system for fuck's sake, voting wasn't introduced until the 1980s.

Colonialism rarely live peacefully for long, there is just too much deepen resentment.

@@repeatedaction4273 as an English person i can for sure say they didn't. A lot of British are sadly racist.

And dead bodies coming to shores in Hong Kong because of massive killings in the cultural revolution, and refugees from other parts of Asia made British HK looked cute and fluffy. Your point?

BASED

With the CCP’s track record you’d be careful too - Falun Gong anyone?

He is pro CCP, he got arrested for 1 year for being part of the pro-Communists riots.

You think he like being ruled over by the British, with no representation?

​@@garmenlin5990 What representation does the CCP offer?

They're like rebels now right? Trying to hurt their own country instead of advocate for unity. Don't forget those Myanmar politicians are hiding while they send young protesters like her out. I almost feel bad for the protesters when I see them dying for nothing, especially the teenagers who's easily influenced. This backstory will explain everything. The problems in Burma are actually differences between the National League for Democracy (NLD) party and the rest of the populace. The NLD won an almost landslide victory in the 2015 elections and ruled the country for the first time until 2020. The leader of the party Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was very popular but her government couldn't achieve much in its five- year term. According to many independent poles, the party will surely win the elections in 2020 but it can't win an outright majority to form a government. It seemed that they were unwilling to form a coalition government and tried everything in their power to get a majority. They used many tricks before the elections and all other parties were distressed about that. Many political parties before and after the elections met with the commander-in-chief of the army and asked him to intervene. In the elections the NLD won overwhelmingly getting about 82% of the votes to everybody's astonishment. The parties and the army pointed out the irregularities and asked the Elections Commission but they refused to answer under the order of the President who is vice president of the NLD and who appointed the Commission. The army asked to get answer many times to no avail and decided to get power properly under the constitution when the NLD moved to open a new parliament and form their government. The army arrested the president and NLD leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi who instructed her followers in a prepared statement to revolt against the military. Since then NLD members started protests in the streets for about two weeks rather peacefully though. When the army didn't budge they changed to violent demonstrations arousing mostly young people and even young children. Slowly the confrontations become between the NLD youth members and the army in the streets and NLD and the rest of the populace in other areas and in social life. However, as a few hundreds of demonstrators were killed in the streets, the world knows only that the army used deadly force against unarmed civilians. The NLD apparatchiks know how to approach international political leaders to get sympathy while the army leaders concentrate on the rule of law and order in the country. Hence most of the world think the disagreement was between the army and the NLD. The truth is the army is only the caretaker for the preservation of democracy at the request of all political parties and the general public except the NLD party. -Truth Teller @Truth Teller That sounds very believable. The tactics the protesters used are the same used in other color revolutions, like in Arab spring in Egypt, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, Hong Kong, Thailand, Myanmar. E.g. using fingers to make signs, using people to kneel in front of the police, using stones from the roads, shields, catapults, molotov cocktails, setting buildings on fire etc etc. , spreading propaganda the police shot at the heads, which was over done and became so obviously fake. -papa smurf Thank you so much for your efforts to tell the truth. It is being stifled, distorted, or ignored by MSM. We were always told that the military was the "bad guys", and the Aung Sung clique were the good ones. -Koxinga Unmasking Myanmar's Racist Genocidal US-backed Opposition ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pHIVwGOj0Vw.html And Hidden Protest Violence in Myanmar By Land destroyer. RU-vid censored the link. The video will explain how western media's never show the violence committed by the protestors, only the military side. There is no self defense argument at all. Here an old example where the military will resort to using live rounds when they feel threatened. Now imagine seeing the same protest around the clock where foreign countries secretly funding, arming, and training of armed militants. You'll have the followings. Myanmar: Sleepwalking into Another US-backed Regime Change Crisis ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lnKPJp_IzIs.html The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre), were the shootings of 13 unarmed Kent State University students in Kent, Ohio by the Ohio National Guard on May 4, 1970. The killings took place during a peace rally against the expanding involvement of the Vietnam War into neutral Cambodia by United States military forces as well as the National Guard presence on campus. Source en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

The Hong Kong protests in 1967 were not a fight for democracy, it was a fight for Maoist Communism. Hong Kong housing problem in part was due to the mass immigration of refugees fleeing Communist China. The average Hong Konger did not support these protests.

@@Halkin85 I’ll totally take your words for it because I’m a dumb-ass.

@@ziiiim No worries man. I am actually from Hong Kong but this is still my own interpretation of events.

Fight for Democracy and freedom has shattered the homes of people in Afghanistan, Libya, Syria etc and so on so forth. F*** off with Democracy when it can't feed millions of poor in India, Pakistan and other poor Asian countries. Democracy needs Meritocracy or else you get f****ed by Politician and their corrupt practice. And Meritocracy can sometimes be authoritarian but it brings stability and peace and fills your stomach thrice a day. Not to go the North Korean way but the Singaporean way where after sometime people stop giving sh**t. Check out Polymatter video on Singapore to understand why Democracy needs to have curbs on freedom for maintaining order. Or you can go to UK and USA or Mexico and India to enjoy Democracy with dumb ass fart heads in the parliament.

No, it doesn't but it sure does rhyme

Clearly you don’t comprehend the meaning of the word ‘dire’ 😂

How are you surprised? I mean it's Vice, what did you expect? A proper and unbiased report? 😀

@@Warhamsterrrr true. And VICE parent company is a firm in China. What was I dreaming about.

Vice parent company is in China? What is the company? That is highly problematic.

@@justinmiller1118 But Vice is owned by Disney so ultimately it’s not under Chinese rule

@@justinmiller1118 they probably have one in China because of the media presence in China, but I don’t they’re controlled by Chinese media due to the fact that they did a documentary on the Uighur Muslims

Recruited by the British.. easy to get some locals to lick their colonial boots for some security and privilege.

@@noboruwataya5338 Maybe they just didn't want Mao style communism .. would seem reasonable

There’s literally proof

Lease agreement is only about New Territories @Graf von Losinj ... Naturally, the extending of the administration period and negotiate another type of arrangement with partial involvement of Beijing government would be happier scenario than what has happened. Handover of any piece of land towards the dictatorship country of the world is nothing but pure betrayal.

The u.k was a lot weaker than china, there was nothing that they could do. China was going to get the land no matter what. They also had a weak claim since they had obtained hong kong in a war.

Hong Kong is fucked

The fact that his alma mater is a left-leaning secondary school explains his leaning. His Cantonese was translated properly “Chairman Mao” yes he said so. He is very careful with his wording, and while he perhaps shared similar experience with youngsters on 2019, and perhaps he gets the inequality now is similar to then, his language is colored by his education then. He didn’t elaborate why he won’t join the protests in 2019 (or Vice edited out) perhaps he just think they are agitators influenced by western powers - something the colonial government would have said the same against him then- influenced by CCP/left-leanings The current HK Government supported by CCP is doing exactly same if not worse than the colonial British HK Gov’t. One thing cannot be underestimated- CCP knows this game too well as it is well-practiced in mainland. Teachers are getting booted for not toeing the official government line/policies. Hell, political parties are disbanding and candidates disqualified for their “unpatriotic” leanings. He and generations of mainlanders are blinded by the devotion to CCP and mixes up the love of country with love of the Communist Party.

That’s because Taiwan is the real China

Gross. If it happens to Taiwan, Japan and South Korea may be next, then Australia and New Zealand, and on and on. Tyrants are never satisfied.

@@justinmiller1118 says an American, who's country broke "deals" they made with the native americans and slaughtered hundreds and thousands of them, while stealing their land. It always hits me as ironic when americans say that they won so they deserve the land(i have heard that absolute stupid argument before). That is the mark of a tyrant. Meanwhile china does have yet to invade and occupy another country in recent history. Meanwhile the u.s invaded iraq only 17-18 years ago, toppled tge government and vrought about brutal terrorists as there was no government to stop them. The u.s also funded terrorists in the middle east and in central america. Kicked out elected presidents and put in dictators. That is more tyrannical than what china has done.

Silly. Read China history. Taiwan is part of the Republic of China. Look at their passports and their constitution. The roc retreated to Taiwan province and has been there till today. Both governments agree that one should recognize only one China, you can pick to recognize the people’s republic of China in Beijing or the republic of China in Taiwan as China.

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Yeah but this guy is speaking FOR the commies against the people of HONG KONG.

@blueberrwi it's not a dialect it's completely separate from Mandarin. Also there's been attempts to squash minority languages all over the world, China included.

@blueberrwi you know the chinese communist party only allows mandarin to be spoken in the mainlands. I'm not so sure if you know this, but why do you think all movies and tv shows based on Cantonese only in Hong Kong and not Guangzhou and any other parts?

@@lightingluo I'll have to correct you here, Cantonese or any other dialect are ALLOWED to be spoken in the mainland China. But Yes CCP only allows mandarin to be taught in schools, and 'encourage' it's citizen to used mandarin as much as possible by associating speaking dialect with 'uncivilized act'. Also they do put restrictions on Cantonese/dialect broadcast and media publication but they do exist.

@@lightingluo That is ridiculous. Cantonese is freely spoken in Guangzhou much in the same way Okinawan is spoken in Okinawa.

Oh you JUST noticed?

@@garmenlin5990 i dont watch VICE often (and now prolly never), if thats what ur asking :P

British Hong Kong was a dictatorship, not a democracy at all. Democracy only was implemented at the handover to weaken Chinese ties and make sure they still support western interests. Talk about foreign meddling

LMFAO you are blind

@albert einstien yes British and proud of the empire

@@mastertrollmind am not blind mate

Yeah sure, because you guys can milk the f*ck outta Hong Kong.

@@adammortgage2457 stop spreading bull

Mao was a monster.

Violence against Hamas, a terrorist group that uses civilians as shields. Nice try

Vice made lots of documentaries about those. Just search their channel!

I bet you wish you were a Nazi

We all live in a yellow submarine yellow submarine yellow submarine, all better now.

Freed in '97.

@@leethal59 nope. Simply changed from one colonial master to another.

Hong kong is allready free its returned to the motherland

@@slendrmusic nonsense comment hongkong was stolen from china by England now its back where it belongs with the motherland

@@IanM.. I’m a hongkonger stfu you wumao troll.

Yes because colonial rule always goes well and is never abuses and rascist...oh wait. It ALWAYS is. 100% of the time in history

@@Novasfan100 For a very long time Hong Kong was how you describe, but that changed. Hong Kong became a blend of two very different cultures, enjoyed freedoms the mainland could only dream of. That is coming to an end thanks to the CCP. I'm not saying Hong Kong should be a colony of Britain again, it should have the independence it wants, but I'd much rather live as a Hong Konger in the 70s, 80s and 90s than now.

Sexist

Please stick to armwrestling

@@thennow898 roger that