Independent inquiry into clashes during Hong Kong extradition bill protests would reveal whether ‘foreign forces’ involved, says pro-establishment figure backing statutory probe
James Tien is latest to support calls for full inquiry into June 12 violence between police and protesters
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam also told to take responsibility and step down for bungled handling of crisis
30 Jun, 2019
A pro-establishment heavyweight has added his voice to calls for city leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor to launch an independent probe into violent clashes during extradition bill protests on June 12.
The Liberal Party honorary chairman, James Tien Pei-chun, said the statutory inquiry should look at whether “foreign forces†helped orchestrate the demonstrations, which included confrontations between police and protesters.
He also called on Lam to consider a major cabinet reshuffle. But his proposal was rejected by activist Nathan Law Kwun-chung, of the localist party Demosisto, who insisted removing Lam from office was the only way out of the extradition bill crisis
that he argued was of her government’s own making.
Read more at: https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3016699/independent-inquiry-clashes-during-hong-kong-extradition
When you get millions of people out there, huge crowds, foreign interference is a hard sale, at least, not all of them.
