Gravitas: How rulers discredit people's protests

As China Discredits The Hong Kong Protests, Here's A Look At The History Of Such Protests People's movements have been consistently put down by rulers. The ones in power admonish such protests and allege foreign intervention. Be it the stance against Anna Hazare's India Against Corruption movement or the Iranian protests in early 2018 or the 1974 students protests in Bihar, rulers discredit protests. Here's a report.