Hong Kong anniversary includes protesters demanding democracy

Tuesday, July 2, 2002

HONG KONG -- As protesters lashed out at Beijing's "murderous regime," President Jiang Zemin marked Hong Kong's first five years back in China by saying Monday it had retained its capitalist ways and now should support the mainland.

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