{"id":12447,"date":"2016-04-25T21:30:44","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T11:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinaworker.info\/?p=12447"},"modified":"2016-04-16T10:10:48","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T02:10:48","slug":"hong-kong-smear-campaign-against-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinaworker.info\/en\/2016\/04\/25\/12447\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong: Smear campaign against refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Call for a prison camp and crackdown on \u201cfake refugees\u201d is a racist political manoeuvre ahead of Legco elections<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Dikang, Socialist Action (CWI in Hong Kong)<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s small refugee community is afraid. Anti-refugee sentiment is being whipped up by those in power \u2013 government, the media and defenders of big business interests. They present a completely false idea of \u201cfake refugees\u201d, ignoring the dangerous world we live in, with religious, ethnic and political persecution that forces people to flee their homes.<\/p>\n<p>Newspapers, most notably Oriental Daily, are consciously stirring up racist attitudes towards refugees. The term \u201cfake refugees\u201d appeared in 400 articles in Chinese language newspapers in February this year compared to just 12 times in the whole of 2014.<\/p>\n<p>That this is racism is shown by the way South Asians are especially scapegoated even though they are mostly Hong Kong residents, not refugees. There are eight times as many Australians in Hong Kong as there are refugees, and Australians far outnumber South Asians, but nobody proposes to limit the number of Australians!<\/p>\n<p>The Liberal Party put up banners blaming refugees for an increase in crime. This was dismissed as untrue by Fok Lok-sang, Yuen Long district police commander, who produced figures totally disproving the Liberals\u2019 claims.<\/p>\n<p>The establishment wants to create mass fear over huge numbers of refugees arriving. In reality, Hong Kong has taken in very few refugees \u2013 around 11,000. This compares with 2.7 million refugees in Turkey and 1.5 million in Pakistan. Hong Kong grants asylum to even fewer, the lowest number in the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CY Leung is desperate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Racist ideas (to discriminate against certain groups based on their colour or ethnicity) are always a tool of oppressive regimes to divide and rule over the oppressed.<\/p>\n<p>After three years of disastrous misrule arousing mass hatred, CY Leung has seized upon the \u2018anti-refugee card\u2019 in a bid to extend his grip on power. His policy address in January deliberately injected this issue into Hong Kong\u2019s political power struggle ahead of the Legco elections. This is to distract from the real issues of collapsing public services, unaffordable housing and lack of good jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Following Leung\u2019s lead the pro-government parties have formed into a political lynch mob that compete against each other to be the most rabid anti-refugee voice. Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee and Priscilla Leung Mei-fun are first among the mad dogs. They demand all asylum seekers including children be locked away in a camp.<\/p>\n<p>These are the same politicians who want to criminalise protest and introduce Article 23 to limit basic democratic rights. There is a clear link between attacking refugees and wanting to strengthen the dictatorial powers of the state.<\/p>\n<p>CY Leung has even threatened to withdraw from the UN Convention Against Torture. Outside the convention, Hong Kong would be in the company of a few \u2018rogue states\u2019 like North Korea and Zimbabwe that systematically violate human rights.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t be fooled by the establishment\u2019s racist lies! United struggle by all oppressed and grassroots people is needed to defeat the current system and achieve real change.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-12448\" src=\"http:\/\/media.chinaworker.info\/2016\/04\/Refugee-and-SA-demo-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"Refugee and SA demo\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call for a prison camp and crackdown on \u201cfake refugees\u201d is a racist political manoeuvre ahead of Legco elections<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":12448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[133,124],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hong-kong","8":"category-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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