HONG KONG: Hong Kong's government risks reigniting last year's political unrest by pushing ahead with a controversial bill outlawing insults to China's national anthem, opposition lawmakers said on Tuesday (May 12).
Pro-democracy lawmakers warned history was repeating itself, noting that the fast-tracking of a bill last year to allow extraditions to the authoritarian mainland was the spark that lit seven straight months of pro-democracy protests.
But opposition figures said such a move would inflame anger in a city still splintered by divisions after last year's protests. The extradition bill was belatedly withdrawn but by that point swathes of the city were in revolt against Beijing's rule following years of rising fears that the city's freedoms were being stifled.Both Lam and Beijing have dismissed protesters' demands for an amnesty for the people arrested, an inquiry into police conduct and universal suffrage.
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