Lam Bun [SEP] date of death
Lam Bun
Lam Bun (25 September 1929 – 25 August 1967) was a radio commentator at Commercial Radio Hong Kong who was fiercely critical of leftists. He was assassinated during the Hong Kong 1967 riots, becoming an icon of freedom of speech in Hong Kong.
Biography.
Born in 1929, Lam was a radio commentator at Commercial Radio Hong Kong, which, during the 1960s, was fiercely critical of leftists. During the 1967 riots, he criticised the leftist agitators on his own radio programmes. He created
George Ho launched the programme in his memory.
Immediately after Lam Bun's death, most of the Chinese and English newspapers in Hong Kong condemned the brutal murdering of Lam Bun and many other Chinese and non-Chinese innocent victims by the leftist extremists as despicable and inhuman. On the other hand, the pro-communist leftist newspaper, "Ta Kung Pao", published several articles, condemning Lam Bun but not the murderers. For example, one of the articles titled "地下突擊隊鋤奸, 敗類林彬受重傷", which may be