Exclusive | 24 hours in Hong Kong: the dramatic untold story of trio’s escape after the Tiananmen Square crackdown
On the 29th anniversary of China’s bloody response to student protests, one man breaks his decades-long silence on helping two leaders to escape, and why he doesn’t regret leaving his life and family behind forever
It is a story previously only whispered of in certain circles, a story of a young married couple fleeing a violent government crackdown, of a man who left his family and risked his life to smuggle them out of the country, and of the part Hong Kong played in the dramatic episode.
It is a story that has never been told before, until now.
For the first time, on the 29th anniversary of those bloody events in Tiananmen Square, Ah Hung talks to the Post about a dangerous flight for freedom, and the 24 hours that changed his life forever.
Ah Hung – not his real name – was an ordinary Chinese citizen in 1989, a man far removed from the student protests in Beijing, an unsung hero whose conscience spurred him into action all those years ago.
Chai Ling and Feng Congde were fugitives when they met Ah Hung. The student leaders were on China’s 21-most-wanted list and needed to get from Foshan, in Guangdong province, to Hong Kong, and from there to France.