Debate over youthful pro-chief executive protester goes viral

A boy has become the focus of internet users’ attention in discussion forums after a video showing his active participation in Sunday’s pro-Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying protest went viral.

The boy, whose hasn’t been identified by name, spoke to Hong Kong television reporters on Sunday, saying he had been attacked by anti-government protestors outside a Tin Shui Wai community hall where Leung was holding a forum.

“I only said ‘Support Leung Chun-ying’, and then I was punched like this,” he said, before wincing and demonstrating his reaction.

The boy also said the punch was followed by water being splashed on his back by protestors from the League of Social Democrats, an anti-government party. 

But some internet users suspect the boy, who said he joined the demonstration by himself, was engaged in an aggressive act of his own after the same video shows him demonstrating and maybe even throwing somethng at rival protestors.