July 2019 Restoration of Tuen Mun Park
2019 CE.
Shown on the map at 22.392°, 113.974°.
This segment of the timeline of the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests covers the month of July 2019. The anniversary of the 1997 handover of Hong Kong to China on 1 July saw large daytime protests. In the evening of that day, protesters stormed the Legislative Council Building and defaced symbols, with police only moving in after midnight. This incident, which was sharply condemned by the government of Carrie Lam, did however not lead to a split between peaceful and violent protesters. Observers linked the understanding of the non-violent protesters for the violent wing to the lack of willingness of the Lam government to engage in dialogue about the protesters' five demands. Apart from major protests on Sundays, there were also mostly peaceful demonstrations during the week. A pattern became established such that peaceful daytime protests were followed by violent clashes between protesters and police at night. Police continued to draw criticism for its heavy-handed tactics. A further landmark event in the evolution of the protests was the Yuen Long attack on 21 July.
Text from the Wikipedia article Timeline of the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests (July 2019), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.