On New Year's Day, thousands of demonstrators marched to the office of the Chinese government in Hong Kong to demand genuine democracy, the first such mass protest against the central government since the former British colony's reversion to Chinese sovereignty in 1997 under the formula of “one country, two systems.”
Despite a huge police presence, some activists broke through the police cordon and charged toward the building. Eventually, protesters were allowed to lay a coffin at the office's back entrance to symbolize the death of democracy in Hong Kong.
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