CY Leung accused of stirring up new Cultural Revolution in Hong Kong
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying was likened to Communist strongman Mao Zedong launching the Cultural Revolution yesterday as he exchanged fire with pan-democratic lawmakers over his policy-address attack on two student commentaries about self-determination.
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying was likened to Communist strongman Mao Zedong launching the Cultural Revolution yesterday as he exchanged fire with pan-democratic lawmakers over his policy-address attack on two student commentaries about self-determination.
Leung accused the University of Hong Kong Students' Union magazine of "advocating independence" and "putting forward fallacies" in an article last February and in a book it published last September entitled .
A substantive voice hasn’t been formed to call for Hong Kong independence
However, Brian Leung Kai-ping, government and law student and editor-in-chief of both publications, insisted yesterday he was neither for nor against Hong Kong independence.
"Are you trying to stir up a Cultural Revolution in Hong Kong?" asked Lee, referring to the 10-year campaign started by Mao in the 1960s that purged dissidents, suppressed free speech and forced academics and capitalists to become farmers.
"Are those criticisms your only reflection on the issue of our youth following the Umbrella Movement? Are you trying to suppress freedom of speech until 'one country, two systems' is destroyed?"
Leung replied: "Freedom of speech means everyone is free to comment on views expressed by others."
