Letters to the Editor, June 17, 2013

There is increasingly bitter divisiveness in Hong Kong's universal suffrage debate that was seldom seen before the new administration took power.

Whatever may be said about Donald Tsang Yam-kuen, our previous chief executive, he did some very good work bringing people to the negotiating table on several contentious issues.

Generally, people's opinions and demonstrations were respected.

There is already a dangerous new trend of particular interest groups "coming out" and supporting what is assumed, perhaps incorrectly, to be the government's future stance and demonising others who may not.

They tend to follow each other like sheep with a herd mentality.

If left unchecked, it appears Hong Kong might soon be facing a situation where two sides face off in the street, perhaps like Thailand's red and yellow shirt demonstrations in 2010.