We'll fight to the end, Kwun Tong traders say as eviction looms
Kwun Tong shopkeepers say it is unfair they have to move to make way for new town centre
The few remaining traders on a soon-to-be-redeveloped Kwun Tong street are vowing to fight eviction.
Shopkeepers in Yan Shue Lane say they will "fight to the end like the villagers of Choi Yuen Tsuen", the Pat Heung village razed to make way for the Hong Kong-Guangzhou express rail link that saw mass protests.
Eric Leung Kam-hung is the last person in the city selling racing pigeons at his Kok Chai Bird Store. He expects Food and Environmental Health Department officials to arrive on his doorstep at any time to shut him down.
Along with half a dozen neighbours, traders and pigeon fanciers, Leung said he would stand guard until the officers arrive.
"I won't leave … I have nothing left, so what is there to be afraid of?" he said. "Three decades of blood and sweat will have gone to waste if I leave."
Wearing red headbands, the group marched to the department's Kwun Tong office yesterday to hand in a petition demanding better relocation and compensation.