Benjamin CarlsonSeptember 6, 2012 06:21
HONG KONG — If Beijing’s plan was to make young Hong Kongers more docile and patriotic through “moral and national education,” it seems to have already backfired. On Wednesday, 11 hunger strikers — several of them students — continued their campaign to force the government to withdraw the program. The night before, thousands of students and parents demonstrated outside the government’s central offices to protest against the curriculum, calling for Chief Executive Chun-ying Leung to step down.
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