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Rachel Cartland
Rachel Cartland
Rachel Cartland is director of Cartland Consulting and a former assistant director of Social Welfare in the Hong Kong government.

True reconciliation is an urgent task, especially because many of the alienated in Hong Kong society are our own younger generation. Problems can be solved when we are willing to put aside our differences and embrace the values of pragmatism and common sense.

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Harsh sentences will only further polarise society and, given that there has been little disruption on the scale of Occupy since 2014, will not serve a deterrent purpose. Hong Kong needs to focus on working together to solve pressing problems.

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