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*{{Flag|United States}} – [[Jim McGovern (American politician)|Jim McGovern]], member of the [[United States House of Representatives|US House of Representatives]] and chair of the [[Congressional-Executive Commission on China]], described the attack as "orchestrated violence against peaceful protesters" and urged Hong Kong authorities to protect the [[demonstration (political)|freedom of demonstration]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/07/22/hong-kong-police-made-no-arrests-mob-assaulted-commuters-protesters-journalists-yuen-long/|title=Hong Kong police made no arrests after mob assaulted commuters, protesters, journalists in Yuen Long|first=Kris|last=Cheng|work=Hong Kong Free Press|date=22 July 2019|accessdate=22 July 2019|quote=Meanwhile, US House Representative Jim McGovern, a co-chair of the Congressional Executive-Commission on China, condemned the "orchestrated violence against peaceful protesters" as unacceptable.}}</ref>
*{{Flag|United States}} – [[Jim McGovern (American politician)|Jim McGovern]], member of the [[United States House of Representatives|US House of Representatives]] and chair of the [[Congressional-Executive Commission on China]], described the attack as "orchestrated violence against peaceful protesters" and urged Hong Kong authorities to protect the [[demonstration (political)|freedom of demonstration]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/07/22/hong-kong-police-made-no-arrests-mob-assaulted-commuters-protesters-journalists-yuen-long/|title=Hong Kong police made no arrests after mob assaulted commuters, protesters, journalists in Yuen Long|first=Kris|last=Cheng|work=Hong Kong Free Press|date=22 July 2019|accessdate=22 July 2019|quote=Meanwhile, US House Representative Jim McGovern, a co-chair of the Congressional Executive-Commission on China, condemned the "orchestrated violence against peaceful protesters" as unacceptable.}}</ref>

*{{flag|Ireland}} – The [[Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Ireland)|Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade]] raised the security status of travelling to Hong Kong and Macau to "High degree of caution".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news.php?id=131876&sid=4|title=Ireland advises high degree of caution for travel to HK|date=24 July 2019|access-date=24 July 2019|newspaper=The Standard|location=Hong Kong|publisher=Sing Tao News Corporation}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dfa.ie/travel/travel-advice/a-z-list-of-countries/china-hong-kong-macau/|title=China – Hong Kong / Macau|department=Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade|publisher=Government of Ireland|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190723192832/https://www.dfa.ie/travel/travel-advice/a-z-list-of-countries/china-hong-kong-macau/|archivedate=23 July 2019|year=2019|orig-year=updated on 16 July; "still current"[sic] at 24 July|access-date=24 July 2019}}</ref>


* {{flag|Japan}} – The Consulate-General of Japan in Hong Kong issued new warning to their expatriates in Hong Kong regarding rumours of further attacks in the New Territories.<ref>{{cite press release|url=https://www.hk.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_ja/kougi_20190723.html|script-title=ja:逃亡犯罪人条例等改正問題を巡る抗議活動への注意喚起（その11）|date=23 July 2019|access-date=24 July 2019|publisher=Consulate-General of Japan in Hong Kong|language=ja}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://udn.com/news/story/120538/3948067|script-title=zh:示威不斷！日本、南韓等國家對香港發出旅遊警示|agency=[[Central News Agency (Taiwan)|Central News Agency]]|website=''udn.com''|language=zh-tw|location=Hong Kong|publication-place=New Taipei City|publisher=United Daily News Group|date=24 July 2019|access-date=24 July 2019}}</ref>
* {{flag|Japan}} – The Consulate-General of Japan in Hong Kong issued new warning to their expatriates in Hong Kong regarding rumours of further attacks in the New Territories.<ref>{{cite press release|url=https://www.hk.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_ja/kougi_20190723.html|script-title=ja:逃亡犯罪人条例等改正問題を巡る抗議活動への注意喚起（その11）|date=23 July 2019|access-date=24 July 2019|publisher=Consulate-General of Japan in Hong Kong|language=ja}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://udn.com/news/story/120538/3948067|script-title=zh:示威不斷！日本、南韓等國家對香港發出旅遊警示|agency=[[Central News Agency (Taiwan)|Central News Agency]]|website=''udn.com''|language=zh-tw|location=Hong Kong|publication-place=New Taipei City|publisher=United Daily News Group|date=24 July 2019|access-date=24 July 2019}}</ref>

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2019 Yuen Long attack
Part of counteractions to anti-extradition bill protests
Mob dressed in white attacking passengers at Yuen Long Station platform
2019 Yuen Long attack is located in Hong Kong
2019 Yuen Long attack
Location in Hong Kong
LocationYuen Long, New Territories,
Hong Kong
Coordinates22°26′46″N 114°2′8″E / 22.44611°N 114.03556°E / 22.44611; 114.03556 (Location)
Date21 July 2019
10pm (HKT, UTC+08:00)
TargetAnti-extradition bill protesters
WeaponsRattan canes, wooden poles,
steel rods, metal tubes
InjuredAt least 45
Victims
  • Anti-extradition bill protesters
  • Passersby
  • Train passengers
  • Journalists
AssailantsWhite-shirted men
Mob opening the gate in Yuen Long Station concourse
Four assailants attacking a civilian
Overnight, the mobsters in Nam Pin Wai Village

The 2019 Yuen Long violence was a mob attack that occurred on 21 July 2019, in Yuen Long, Hong Kong.[1][2][3] A mob of over 100 armed men dressed in white indiscriminately attacked civilians on the streets and passengers in the Yuen Long MTR station[4][5] including the elderly, children,[6] black-clad protesters,[7] journalists and lawmakers.[8] At least 45 people were injured in the incident,[9] including a pregnant woman.[10] The attack happened following an anti-extradition bill protest in Sheung Wan, Hong Kong and was an act threatening the pro-democracy protesters who were returning home to Yuen Long.

Despite numerous reports made to the 999 emergency hotline, the police did not arrive for more than 30 minutes, finally arriving 1 minute after the mob left the station.[11][12][13] No arrests were made that night. Many accused the police of failing to protect citizens from being attacked, with some even alleging that the police colluded with the mobs.[14]

Junius Ho, a Legislative Council member and an influential figure in Yuen Long, was captured shaking hands with the mob while calling them heroes.[15] Ho was also accused of being part of the attack.[16][17] As of 24 July 2019, 12 men were arrested for "unlawful assembly".[18]

Background

Further information: 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests

Protests against the controversial extradition bill had been going on in Hong Kong for more than a month. Recent demonstrations had turned into clashes, with the police allegedly using increasingly violent strategies and force on the protesters. The pro-government camp, which supported the extradition bill, had attempted to garner support for the police force, whom they labelled defenders of law and order. In contrast with the black dress code used by the protesters, the pro-government camp wore white. People dressed in white vandalised the Tai Po Lennon Wall on 19 July, and participated in a demonstration showing solidarity with the police on 20 July.

On Sunday 21 July, the Civil Human Rights Front organised a protest from Causeway Bay to Wan Chai on Hong Kong Island, with black being the dress code again. Claiming to "defend" their homeland, the white-shirt mob warned all anti-extradition bill protesters not to set foot in Yuen Long.[19]

Attack

The moment that a female journalist of Stand News was attacked.

In the evening, as the scuffles in Sheung Wan were taking place, pro-Beijing assailants wearing white shirts and armed with iron bars and wooden clubs gathered in Yuen Long, a town in the New Territories. At around 10 pm, these assailants started indiscriminately attacking people and cars on the street. They were reportedly targeting those wearing black, the dress code for the democracy rally on Hong Kong Island, but also attacked journalists and bystanders.[20][21] One pregnant woman, wearing a long white dress, was found lying on the floor.[22]

At around 10:30 pm, about a hundred white-shirted assailants appeared at Yuen Long railway station and attacked commuters in the concourse indiscriminately, on the platform and inside train compartments.[23][24] Two police officers arrived at 10:52 pm.[21] However, they left the station as they judged that they were outnumbered by the assailants[24] and did not have sufficient gear, according to the police.[25] Thirty police officers arrived at the station at 11:20 pm, but the assailants had left.[25] Due to the violence, trains bypassed Yuen Long station between 10:56 pm and 11:19 pm,[26] and the station was ordered closed at 11:55 pm.[20] However, after midnight, white-shirted assailants forced open the station's shutters to launch a second wave of attacks on passengers; no police officers were at the scene then.[25] In all, at least 45 citizens were reported injured,[27] including Legislative Council member Lam Cheuk-ting and two reporters; one other journalist had their equipment smashed.[28][29]

Citizens made calls to the emergency hotline upon seeing the armed group assembling at around 7:00 pm, and an MTR spokesman said the first call by the MTR to the police was made at around 10:45 pm, but police officers arrived more than three hours after initial calls for help were made.[30][31] The local police call centre received hundreds of calls between 10 pm and midnight,[32] and some citizens could not connect to the reporting hotline.[33] The management of Yoho Mall, a shopping mall next to Yuen Long station, also attempted to call the police but they could not get in touch with them.[27] The police station near Yuen Long shut its gate in response to the hundreds that turned up to report the incident.[32][34] Overnight, the police confronted the mobsters in Nam Pin Wai Village and confiscated several steel bars,[26] though no arrests were made as they saw no one holding weapons and "noticed nothing criminal" in the village[26] and could not determine the identity of the white-shirted mobsters.[35]

Criticism of police's response

Late arrival and shutting nearby police station

An MTR spokesman said workers at the station saw disputes taking place at about 10:45 pm and immediately contacted police within two minutes.[36] However, the police officers only arrived at around 11:15 pm, when the mob was gone, despite receiving many other citizens' call to 999 for help.[12] Residents also reported being ignored and treated rudely by 999 responders, who claimed they "should stay at home if they are afraid". Upon arrival, police were surrounded by dozens of angry residents and protesters who accused police of deliberately retreating after being called to the scene for the first assault.[37]

Also, many criticised the fact that that police stations in the vicinity of the Yuen Long attacks shut their doors. Police replied that the shut-down was for safety reasons due to large groups of protesters surrounding the stations.[7]

Meanwhile, leaked videos show that two police officers had arrived on the scene but then turned away.[38] Police responded that the two policemen had backed off and called for help as they considered that they did not have the equipment to deal with armed crowds.[7]

Apprehending suspects

After blocking entrances to the area for more than three hours, the police made no arrests.[37] When queried, the police explained that it could not be confirmed that those in white were the ones who participated in the violence and that the police were unable to record the identities of those in white because of their large numbers.[39] Yau Nai-keung, the Assistant District Commander of Crime in Yuen Long, also stated that the colleagues did not see anyone holding weapons at the area at all.[39]

Six men were arrested on 22 July 2019.[40] According to the police, one of the arrested suspects had a triad background.[41] Five more men were arrested on 23 July 2019.[42]

Alleged collusion

Pro-democratic lawmaker Eddie Chu Hoi-dick, representing New Territories West, stated: “Police didn’t show up while thugs rampaged through the station and attacked Yuen Long residents indiscriminately last night," stating that this meant there was "clear collusion between police and the gangs.”[7]

Triad gangsters were previously linked to attacks on democracy activists in Mong Kok during the 2014 Umbrella Movement.[43] At that time, police were similarly accused of not responding in a timely manner and criticised for allowing attacks to occur.[44]

Misconduct in Public Office

Stephen S.N. Char, barrister and former Chief Investigator of the Independent Commission Against Corruption, indicated that intentional negligence by police officers who refused to offer public services might have committed the offence of misconduct in public office under the common law.[45]

Suspected involvement of Junius Ho

After the incident, pro-Beijing legislator Junius Ho was accused of supporting the attack.[46] In various videos posted online, Ho greeted the white-clothed group of assailants, shaking their hands and calling the suspected gangsters "heroes", giving them thumbs-up and saying to them "thank you for your hard work." At least one of the white-clothed men who shook hands with Ho has been shown to have been inside Yuen Long Station during the attacks.[47]

Ho later explained that he lived in Yuen Long and was merely passing by after dinner and agreed to greet one of his supporters who requested to take photos with him.[39] Ho said he did not know anything about the attack when greeting them, and the meeting was before the incident. However, he also defended the mob at a press conference by saying that the incidents were a "normal reaction to protesters who brought violence to the peaceful community after they stormed the liaison office" and also praised them for "safeguarding" their district.[48][49]

The Law Society, of which Ho was once president, said it had received "quite a number of complaints" and is "seriously looking into" calls for disciplinary action against Ho and "conducting reviews on relevant complaints, and will pass the matter to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal if necessary."[49]

Aftermath

See also: 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests § Reclaim Yuen Long

Many shops on the streets and in shopping malls were closed in Yuen Long and the neighbouring towns Tuen Mun, Tin Shui Wai and Tsuen Wan on 22 July 2019. [50]Rumours spread online warned that there would be more violence on that day. Many companies allowed employees who live in the districts to leave work early that day.[41] Some schools in the district cancelled their afternoon activities.[50] Leisure and cultural facilities in Yuen Long operated by government closed early out of public safety considerations.[51]

Junius Ho's office in Tsuen Wan was vandalised by the protesters after the attack. A glass partition was broken, as well as leaving memo that "suggested a link between the violent gangs that carried out the attack the previous day and the police force".[52] A group of unknown also vandalized the graves of his parents in Tuen Mun,[53][54] vandals also left graffiti with words such as "official-triad collusion"[53] and "Shing Wo" (a triad) near the graves, fuelling rumours regarding the background of the vandals.[55] Protesters also posted anti-government sticky notes on the exterior wall of his offices in Tin Shui Wai[56] and Tuen Mun.[57]

Protests originally planned on 27 and 28 July in Hung Hom-To Kwa Wan, Tseung Kwan O and Hong Kong Islands West were rescheduled or postponed to make way for a rally in Yuen Long.[58] However, the police issued the Letter of Objection, saying the proposed anti-mob march might 'create serious obstruction to the roads and pose a danger to marchers', after receiving pressure from the rural groups. [59] The applicant announced he would instead walk alone along the originally proposed route and urged people not to follow him.[60] Despite the risk of committing the unlawful assembly offence, tens of thousands of people, or 288,000 as the original march applicant estimated, turned up in the town. Some queued up at sweetheart cake shops while many marched on Castle Peak Road. The police fired tear gas in a primarily residential area and in the evening, the stand-offs between the protesters and the police escalated into violent clashes inside Yuen Long station.[61][62]

Reaction

Several politicians such as Kenneth Leung Kai-cheong,[63][64] Roy Kwong Chun-yu[65] and other public figures[66][67][68] condemned it as a terrorist attack.

Hong Kong Economic Times also compared the attack with two terrorist attacks in Mainland China in 2014, suggesting the Yuen Long attack may qualify as a terrorist attack according to the Mainland law.[69] The newspaper also compared the attack with U.S. law, making the same conclusion.[70]

Parties from both factions of the Legislative Council (LegCo), condemned the violence of the attack. Pro-democratic councillors signed a petition to condemn the negligence of the police in allowing suspected triads to become enforcers of their own rules,[71] while the pro-Beijing DAB condemned the violent incident and "demanded that the police follow up on [the attack] seriously".[72]

The injured, as well as LegCo Councillors Lam Cheuk-ting (who was also injured in the attack),[3][73] James Tien,[3] and a number of pro-democratic councillors[63] accused the mob of being members of triad gangs. The police also believed that some of the suspects arrested on 22 July "had triad backgrounds".[3][41]

Some politicians, such as Zachary Wong, Councillor of the Yuen Long District Council, accused the mob of being under the influence of the Beijing central government, citing the opinion of a Liaison Office official in an inauguration event of Shap Pat Heung Rural Committee days earlier.[74] After the attack, Reuters also claimed that they had the audio recording of the speech of the official.[75]

Journalists' associations condemned the attacks on journalists as "a severe infringement of press freedom".[76]

Arthur Shek Kang Chuen [zh], Vice-editor-in-chief of Hong Kong Economic Times and one of the executive directors of its publisher Hong Kong Economic Times Holdings, resigned on 23 July after retracting his personal opinion on encouraging the use of violence on anti-bill protesters; he expressed the opinion during an event supporting police on 20 July, a day before the attack.[77]

Government response

The government condemned the attacks in a statement released after midnight local time.[78] However, the government refused to categorise the attack as a riot.[79][80]

Chief Executive Carrie Lam-Cheng Yuet-ngor held a media session at 3 pm on 22 July 2019,[80] first condemning protesters for besieging the Liaison Office in Sheung Wan the night before. In addressing why she prioritised the liaison office incident before the Yuen Long mob attack in her remarks, Lam said: "It's important that Hong Kong citizens' daily lives are protected, but I believe all citizens will agree that the successful implementation of one country, two systems is ... even the most important thing."[81]

Lam did not directly address the media's questions about the alleged delayed response by police to calls for help.[82] Commissioner of Police Stephen Lo Wai-chung said he needed to follow up with the incident and refused to comment at this point on the police's reaction towards mobs in this incident compared to the high-pressure approach towards protesters in earlier situations.[83]

International

  •  Japan – The Consulate-General of Japan in Hong Kong issued new warning to their expatriates in Hong Kong regarding rumours of further attacks in the New Territories.[86][87]

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See also

  • Colectivos, similar pro-government groups in Venezuela
  • Titushky, similar pro-government fighters in Ukraine
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