Hong Kong rises
June 9, 2019
Two million people, more than a quarter of the city, marched against a proposed extradition bill that would let suspects be sent to mainland China. The protests grew into a movement for Hong Kong's autonomy itself, met by rubber bullets, water cannons, and, eventually, a national security law that ended them.
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