Hong Kong demonstrations protest Communist rule.(Inside Report)

One year after massive demonstrations forced Beijing to back down on imposing harsh "anti-subversion" legislation, Hong Kong demonstrators again took to the streets on July 1 to protest Beijing's heavy-handed rule. Despite sweltering temperatures hovering near 100 degrees, stifling humidity, no breeze and heavy air pollution, an estimated 350,000 people turned out to demonstrate their opposition to Communist China's attempts to impose oppressive measures on the island's nearly 7 million people.

Following last year's even larger protests, which went on for days, the island's chief executive, Mr. Tung Chee-hwa, a Beijing

puppet, backed off from enforcing the program dictated by the mainland Communist regime. Encouraged by their success, the people demanded free elections and scored a major victory over the pro-Beijing parties, which had been favored with a voting formula guaranteeing a Legislative Council majority toeing the PRC's party line. But the Communist oligarchs who run the People's Republic of China are not interested in the will of "the people." They called Mr. Tung to Beijing to remind him who is boss. Then they ...