Pan-dems, stop being US collaborators
- Whether or not the Hong Kong government and police have committed human rights breaches, a country accused of being responsible for war crimes is in no position to sit in judgment
Criticising and protesting against your government is one thing; colluding with a foreign hostile power – and one accused of committing war crimes – is something else.
Yet, this is exactly what opposition lawmakers Kenneth Leung Kai-cheong, Charles Mok and Jeremy Tam Man-ho are doing. They are in danger of changing from being useful idiots for Washington to becoming active collaborators.
Following a US State Department-financed trip, the trio returned to Hong Kong, saying they would now compile a list of local officials for Washington to consider imposing sanctions against – for possible human rights violations.
I don’t rule out the possibility that some government and police actions in the past eight months could be in breach of international standards of human rights.
But that needs to be examined in light of the unprecedented violent protests. It’s laughable to think the United States is in any position to sit in judgment.
There is profound irony and absurdity in what the three are planning to do. Tam said that following their US discussions, they would first target city officials who they believed had violated internationally recognised human rights in terms of extraterritorial rendition, arbitrary detention and torture.