Remembering the past to maintain its spirit

"Even today, it's a scene that's still too distressing for me to recall. I don't feel like talking about it, but it's something I just can't forget," reminisces Lam Chun, president of the Society of the Veterans of the Original Hong Kong Independent Battalion of the Dongjiang Column.

Yet, Lam, now 91 — one of Hong Kong's last surviving guerrilla veterans who, from 1943 to 1945, fought alongside guerrillas led by the Communist Party of China in the battle to liberate the city from Japanese occupation — has long let her deeds do the talking.