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Have any of the protests been anywhere near the scale of Hong Kong? The Hong Kong protests regularly drew as many as 2 million people. That's more than 25% of t
by dcolkitt 7y ago
Have any of the protests been anywhere near the scale of Hong Kong? The Hong Kong protests regularly drew as many as 2 million people. That's more than 25% of the entire country. For comparison sake, that'd be like a single US protest drawing 82 million people.
Even comparing to the Chile protests, those were just 1 million people in a country with 18 million. Proportionally that makes them only one fifth the size of Hong Kong. Plus the Chilean protests only lasted for a few weeks before quickly falling to under 10,000 people. In comparison the HK protests have been ongoing for nearly a year.
- incompatible 7y agoI'm not sure why the Netherlands is even included in the list. There have been some protests against specific government policies, but not an attempt to overthrow the government as such (as far as I noticed). Edit: Currently certain suburbs of The Hague are in revolt because the New Years bonfire was cancelled. It seems pretty childish, and I think most of the rioters are in fact children, but they have heavy weapons in the form of fireworks taped together.
- Miner49er 7y agoI'm a little late, but maybe Iraq is? I can't find anywhere online that mentions the protest's size, but security forces and militia have killed over 400 protesters so far. In some ways that seems to make it more newsworthy then Hong Kong. Here's an article criticizing the media for not covering it: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/11/13/hundreds-iraqis-have-been-killed-medias-silence-is-deafening/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/11/13/hundreds-...