Statement of Hong Kong’s Situation Carrie Lam Should Not Follow the Same Steps of the North Korean R

Dear Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam,

We, the British-North Korean Escapee Community, are deeply concerned about the escalating situation in Hong Kong.

What is happening at Hong Kong’s Polytechnic University right now is not just shocking to democratic citizens and governments worldwide. But particularly to us, North Korean refugees, it brings back the trauma of living in a communist dictatorship country with its merciless oppression, repression, enforced arrest, beating, torture and prohibition of freedom of expression, speech and opportunity.

Why is this happening in Hong Kong? Did you not have many years of freedom of expression and democracy while 65 million Chinese people were killed under Mao’s communist dictatorship and 3.5 million North Koreans died of starvation under the Kim family dictatorship?

The protest in Hong Kong is caused by political mismanagement, otherwise young students would not dare to challenge to the national authorities. There is only one reason for protests of this size or people seeking asylum - political mismanagement and it is one of the reasons why the North Korean escapees escape to South Korea, the UK and the US from Kim Jong-un’s regime.

Please do not let all this violence destroy your economy, social life and the youngsters’ future and hope.

We STRONGLY URGE you to speak to the Polytechnic University union leaders and any representatives involved in the protest to make the situation calm, foster dialogue and listen to protesters voice for their society. They are voiceless people like North Korean escapees.

Hong Kong’s fate is in Hong Kong’s hands. Not in the hands of the communist dictatorship China. You were one of the witnesses for the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989. You should not allow Hong Kong to become East Asia’s bloodbath.

The world including 24 million oppressed North Korean people are now carefully watching the situation in Hong Kong.

And once again the British-North Korean Community ASKS and URGE YOU URGENTLY AND RESPECTFULLY, please do not kill these young protesters because they are your country’s hope, tomorrow and the future.

Yours sincerely,

British-North Korean Escapee Community