Hong Kong protest hate figure Junius Ho’s parents’ graves vandalised amid extradition bill anger
- The rural leader has come in for criticism over alleged links with masked men who attacked subway passengers on Sunday
- Earlier in the day Ho stormed out of a TV interview after a heated row with a pro-democracy legislator
A fiery pro-Beijing lawmaker who has become a hate figure for Hong Kong’s anti-government protest movement suffered a deeply personal attack on Tuesday when his parents’ graves were trashed.
Many opposing the now-suspended extradition bill have made Junius Ho Kwan-yiu the target of their anger after he was seen shaking hands with men in white T-shirts who were accused of assaulting protesters and train passengers in the northern town of Yuen Long.
While police had cordoned off the site in Leung Tin village on Tuesday afternoon after the news broke, pictures showing the vandalised headstones were posted on Facebook and popular online forum LIHKG. One showed someone aiming a middle finger at one of the graves, which also had also been defaced with a spray-painted profanity.
The Chinese words for “official-triad collusion” had also been painted on the wall behind the gravestones, referring to the involvement of suspected gangsters in Sunday night’s attacks on protesters and travellers at Yuen Long’s MTR station.
After inspecting the graves in the evening, a visibly upset Ho, who filed a police complaint, called on the perpetrators to surrender themselves to the authorities because they had done “something hated by both man and God”.