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had sponsored a political radio programme on Commercial Radio, pro-democracy activists protested outside the station with images of Lam, complaining that the station had desecrated the memory of Lam, and all the station had stood for. Activists said they had requested an interview to talk about Lam's
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On 24 August 1967, while Lam was en route to work, men posing as road maintenance workers stopped his vehicle at the end of the street where he lived. They blocked his car doors and doused Lam and his cousin with petrol. They were both then set on fire and burned alive. Lam died later that day in a
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said the DAB were revisionists who "would rather people not talk about their inglorious past." Wong later clarified his comments, saying he had been misunderstood because the phrase 'leftist camp' had different definitions. He said that there was no evidence that Yeung Kwong or the FTU killed Lam
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Immediately after Lam Bun's death, most of the Chinese and English newspapers in Hong Kong condemned the killing as despicable and inhuman. On the other hand, the pro-communist leftist newspaper,
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death. The station later said it respected freedom of speech; the DAB said the shows were about livelihood issues, and denied they promoted a political stance.
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said: "During the '67 riots, it was not just Lam Bun who died. There were very many ordinary citizens who, we don't know for what reason, died ..."
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hospital; his cousin died several days later. A leftist group reportedly claimed responsibility for the assassination.
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50,000, on top of which his employers added HK$ 100,000, making it the highest reward ever posted in the colony.
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to suppress the riots. Lam became an icon of free speech. The police offered a reward of
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The Lam Bun assassination angered the people of Hong Kong, eventually leading the
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Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies
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also said leftists should not be held responsible. Pro-democracy lawmaker
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Bun. He blamed the media for sensationalising his comments ahead of the
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who was fiercely critical of leftists. He was assassinated during the
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Colony in Conflict: The Hong Kong Disturbances, May 1967-January 1968
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Ming K. Chan, Alvin Y. So, Lynn T. White III & M.E. Sharpe
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Underground Front: The Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong
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Radio commentator's murder dragged up in sponsorship row
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No one was ever arrested, although it was believed that
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In 2001, Yeung Kwong was awarded the highest honour
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Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong
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Chinese name
family name
Lam Bun
Guangzhou
Guangdong
China
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
King’s Park
Kowloon
British Hong Kong
Radio commentator
Chinese
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization
Jyutping
Chinese
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization
Jyutping
Chinese
radio commentator
Commercial Radio Hong Kong
1967 Hong Kong riots
Commercial Radio Hong Kong
1967 riots
imperialist running dog

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