Commemorate good, not evil, please

On June 12, some home-haters assembled in London to "celebrate" the second "anniversary" of their breaking the doors of the Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

On June 9, they held a "commemorative ceremony" online for their "clash with the police".

Further back, on Aug 31, 2020, they held a first "anniversary" to "mourn" a rioter who "died in a police attack" at Prince Edward station, only to find him alive in London, asking for money. They even mistook the name of the person, Wong Mau-chun, for Hon Bo-sun.

Almost every two to three weeks, the home-haters in Hong Kong hold an activity to "commemorate" the wrongs they have done in their home city. In their "commemorations", they will repeat their lies, without mentioning how they broke the door with umbrellas, beat peaceful residents with sticks, and burned the road with Molotov cocktail.

They never commemorate Nov 11, 2019, on which day they set a 57-year-old passerby surnamed Li on fire; or Nov 13, 2019, when they killed a 70-year-old cleaner with stones and bricks; or May 24, 2020, when they heavily wounded two innocent people in a subway station in Wan Chai.

Their purpose is clear: By holding activities, they hope to polish their own images into good ones and brainwash audiences into forgetting their crimes.

The evil plots of rioters in Hong Kong will only be in vain. The dropping numbers of their "anniversary" participants is the best evidence that increasingly more people have recognized their true faces and refuse to be cheated and brainwashed by them. The more frequently the rioters in Hong Kong organize to "commemorate anniversaries", the clearer their crimes will be recorded in history.

On June 15, People's Liberation Army soldiers went to the Galwan Valley to commemorate the four martyrs who died while defending Chinese territory from the Indian army, while countless people held online commemorations for them. The four, namely Chen Hongjun, Chen Xiangrong, Xiao Siyuan and Wang Zhuoran, gave their young lives for the motherland on that date in 2020, while Qi Fabao, their regimental commander, was heavily wounded in that clash.

These martyrs and heroes will be remembered for their heroic deeds forever, while the rioters' names will only be linked with the crimes they have done.

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