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Thousands of people marched through Hong Kong’s streets to demand the right to pick the territory’s leader and legislature and to achieve full democracy by 2012.
The demonstrators used yellow umbrellas to form “2012,” and chanted, “One person, one vote -- the only way to go,” as they marched to government headquarters.
The former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997 but was promised a wide degree of autonomy under a “one country, two systems” formula.
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