The June 7th riots, also known as the June 7th leftist trade union riots, were called anti-British riots by the participants at that time and took place in Hong Kong 1967. Influenced by the Cultural Revolution in Chinese mainland, Hong Kong pro-leftists launched a riot against the British colonial government. The incident developed from the initial strike and demonstration to the later assassination and bomb planting. As a result, 5/kloc-0 people were directly killed in the riots and more than 800 people were injured.
1In May, 967, a labor dispute occurred in Xinpugang Flower Factory, located in Xinpugang, Kowloon. On May 6, 2 1 workers were arrested by the police, and many workers were injured. The trade union representative was detained when he went to the police station. The next day, workers and other supporters took to the streets to demonstrate. Following the example of Chinese mainland's Cultural Revolution, demonstrators held quotations from Mao and shouted slogans of * * * Production Party. Police fired tear gas and wooden bullets to disperse the demonstrators and arrested 127 people. That night, the government announced that all police officers would cancel their vacations and imposed a curfew in Kowloon. Later, The Beijing Daily said that "the behavior of the British Hong Kong government is racial persecution, and suppressing the masses is a barbaric fascist atrocity" and supported "Hong Kong citizens taking to the streets to resist violence". On May 15, the Beijing Foreign Ministry protested to the British Chargé d 'affaires and mobilized Beijing people to demonstrate outside the British Chargé d 'affaires in China. Someone even broke into the agent's residence and office that night. Left-wing newspapers in Hong Kong reported the news of Beijing's support, which was distributed to passers-by by by students from left-wing schools in the street. Bank of China also installed a megaphone on the roof of the Central Head Office to carry out revolutionary propaganda.
On May 16, the pro-China leftists in Hong Kong announced the establishment of a committee for compatriots from all walks of life in Hong Kong and Kowloon to fight against persecution in Hong Kong and Britain, with FTU Chairman Yang Guang as the director. With the slogan of "anti-British and anti-violence", the Combat Committee immediately joined hundreds of people from various pro-* * groups to demonstrate in the Governor's Office with quotations from Mao, and posted posters outside the Governor's Office.
Since then, there have been rallies and demonstrations in Hong Kong and Kowloon. In addition to workers, participants include students and others. Buses, trams, the gas company and the Star Ferry also began to strike regularly.
On may 2 1 day, riots spread to central. On the 22nd, there was a bloody clash between the demonstrators and the police, and 167 people were arrested. Rioting workers and students occupied left-wing newspapers, banks, domestic companies, schools and so on. As their stronghold, they held demonstrations, attacked the police and public transportation that was still running. After the riot police arrived at the scene and dispersed them with tear gas and batons, the demonstrators quickly withdrew to their positions, making the police exhausted.
On July 8, about 100 mainland militia had a gun battle with the Hong Kong police in Sha Tau Kok, and five Hong Kong police officers were killed. The People's Daily once again expressed its support for the anti-British and anti-riot remarks of the Hong Kong leftists. There are rumors in Hong Kong that Beijing intends to take back Hong Kong. Later, the leftist movement further escalated, and began to attack police stations with homemade bombs, and attacked passing police cars and public transportation with water (hydrochloric acid) from a height. The laboratory of the left-wing school has become a bomb-making workshop.
From July to August, the police responded by force and broke into the leftist stronghold. On August 4th, the helicopter of the British aircraft carrier sent to Hong Kong landed from the rooftop and attacked the Qiaoguan Building, a leftist stronghold in North Point, at the junction of King's Road and Tangshui Road, where Huafeng Department Store, a large domestic company, was located. In addition to finding various bomb weapons in the building, the police also found a well-equipped field hospital with an operating room. According to the emergency decree, the police closed a number of left-wing schools and left-wing newspapers that published inflammatory remarks; At the same time, a large number of leftists were arrested and detained in the cells of the political department of Mount Mount Moxingling, and some of them were later arrested and deported.
The left responded with escalating bombs, placing real and fake bombs in downtown areas of Hong Kong and Kowloon. Most bombs are written in big letters, on trams, buses and streets. The bomb attack not only disturbed people's lives, but also caused innocent casualties. A seven-year-old girl and her two-year-old brother were killed by a homemade bomb wrapped as a gift in North Point. There were also casualties among the bomb squad, the police and the British army responsible for defusing the bomb.
Citizens generally hate violence. Many media not controlled by the left oppose riots and support the government and the police to maintain order and order. Among them, Lin Bin, the host of the commercial radio program, satirized and belittled the objectives and behaviors of the Fight Committee many times. Taking "I can't stop" as the title of the program, it insinuates that the leftist call for a strike failed to paralyze Hong Kong. On August 24th, Lin Bin was ambushed on his way to work. The murderer disguised himself as a road builder, stopped Lin's car and set fire to Lin and his cousin, who later died in the hospital. Cha Liang Yong, the president of Ming Pao, also received death threats because he explicitly opposed the Cultural Revolution and riots in the newspaper, and once left Hong Kong.
True and false bombs continue to hurt people in downtown areas until 10 months later. /kloc-At the end of 0/0, the government launched the local Hong Kong Festival to enhance public confidence and create a peaceful atmosphere to counter the "Eleventh National Day" of the left and the "Double Tenth National Day" of the right. The left used hundreds of real and fake bombs to prevent citizens from participating. In mid-February, 65438, Zhou Enlai directly issued an order to the left in Hong Kong to stop the bomb wave, and the June 7th riots also came to an end.
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According to statistics, the riot on June 7th caused at least 5 1 deaths, including 1 1 policemen, a British soldier bomb disposal team and a fireman. More than 800 people were injured, including 200 policemen. During the riots, economic losses were also caused. Some citizens sold their properties and left Hong Kong, which led to the first wave of immigration in Hong Kong, and the price of urban buildings fell sharply.
After the riots subsided, the pro-China-leftist organizations in Hong Kong were damaged to some extent, many underground organizations were exposed in the incident, and some people were repatriated to the mainland. Left-wing violent struggle lost people's hearts; After the riots, many Hong Kong people remained vigilant against the leftists, and their influence continued after 1997. Many people who used to belong to or were close to the left later left the left organization.
After studying the causes of the riots, the Hong Kong colonial government found that young people were recruited by the left because they lacked activities to participate in in their spare time, so it decided to increase cultural and recreational activities in large numbers. At the same time, the government is aware of the need to improve people's lives in order to reduce social unrest and the opposition between the people and the government; It indirectly led to the reform of education, medical care and clean government in Hong Kong in the 1970s.
The loyalty and courage of the Hong Kong police in the riots were appreciated. 1969 was awarded the title of "Royal" by the Queen of England, which remained until the return of sovereignty 1997.