Letters | For Hong Kong, Occupy is history: but where’s the healing for divided city?
- The issues that caused the 2014-15 protests to spiral out of control were real and important. Jailing the protest leaders won’t make them go away
But is the government taking this issue seriously? Besides taking all the Occupy leaders to court, they have done nothing to resolve the issues that led to the movement, pretending instead that those political and social problems do not exist.
The movement was not the only factor that divided Hong Kong – the characterisation of the Beijing-Hong Hong relationship by the previous city government also did so. What Hongkongers want is a chance to be heard, and trust from the government. They just want to let others know what a part of the population wants. All the government has to do is to show they are listening.
Michael Mak, Tseung Kwan O
Occupy Central didn’t just cause divisions, it revealed them
I agree with Alice Wu that Occupy protests divided this city, and also that it had been divided long before the tents went up; that the movement may have disrupted life, but it had already been done by the dysfunctional politics.