Myanmese activist Khin Omar said yesterday businessman Li Ka-shing should either put pressure on the Myanmar junta to democratise or get out of her country.
She said the head of Cheung Kong (Holdings) had a responsibility as an investor in the Southeast Asian regime's logistics industry to influence the government and not permit it to perpetrate war crimes against its own people.
Khin Omar, the co-ordinator of the non-governmental organisation Burma Partnership in Mae Sot, Thailand, was invited here by the Hong Kong Coalition for a Free Burma.
She led a group of demonstrators from the Sun Hung Kai Centre in Wan Chai yesterday in a bid to protest outside the Myanmar Consulate.
They were stopped by police officers and the building's security men.
'They told us the Myanmar Consulate is shut - for a holiday,' said one of the demonstrators.
Some wore masks depicting democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and waved placards for democracy in Myanmar. The small group then moved on to Cheung Kong Center in Central, where they passed a petition to a company representative inside, while shouting 'Free Burma' and 'Election not selection' outside.