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  130,000 rally to demand Hong Kong Chief Executive to step down
  1 January 2013
  by P H Yang
  Hong Kong

No Trust
63 year-old Tong Lin-lai held up a poster that questions the integrity of Hong Kong Chief Executive, C Y Leung, and asked whether we can trust him.

(This photo news report is on CNN i-Report. Click thru for details
and is also on Demotix Newswire. Click thru for details.)


Tens of thousands in Hong Kong voted with their feet to demand that C Y Leung, their Chief Executive who had been embroiled in an illegal construction scandal since taking office last July, to step down. The organizer said 130,000 marched peacefully. Police counted 17,000 leaving Victoria Park, the starting point.


Rally
130,000 rallied to demand Hong Kong Chief Executive, C Y Leung, to step down.


March
People from all walks of life, from youth to elders and including handicapped in wheelchairs, marched in the rally to demand that C Y Leung, Hong Kong Chief Executive, to step down.


Wolf
A protester dressed as a wolf in the Chinese Peoples' Liberation Army uniform to mock the Hong Kong Chief Executive, C Y Leung.


Lies
Protesters with posters that read "You Lies", "You Cheats", "CY - Step Down on New Year Day", and a cartoon of CY with an elongated nose, ala Pinocchio.


Kids
Even Kids are unhappy with C Y Leung, Hong Kong Chief Executive.


Autonomy
Hundreds of the Hong Kong Autonomy Movement, brandished the former colonial flags but stressed that they are not after independence.


Rest in Peace
A photo of C Y Leung, Hong Kong Chief Executive, was placed like a funeral altar with signs saying he sold out Hong Kong to the communists.


Police
Hundred of police were deployed to maintain order during the peaceful rally.


Legislators
Legislative councillors Ferdinand Cheung, Cyd Ho and Lee Cheuk-yan of Labour Party and all pan-democrats demanded that C Y Leung, Hong Kong Chief Executive, to step down.



(This photo news report is on CNN i-Report. Click thru for details
and is also on Demotix Newswire. Click thru for details.)


 
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