FAR from being “impromptu demonstrations,” the ongoing Occupy Central movement in Hong Kong was plotted nearly two years ago with the involvement of overseas forces, the BBC has reported in an article published on its website.

    It is an “open secret” at the Oslo Freedom Forum, which is referred to as “one of the biggest meetings of human rights activists in the world,” that plans were hatched for the demonstrations nearly two years ago, wrote Laura Kuenssberg, chief correspondent of BBC Newsnight, in the article.

    In January 2013, “organizers” began to prepare a plan to persuade 10,000 people to occupy roads in Hong Kong, it said.

    “Their strategies were not just to plan the timing and nature of the demonstrations, but also how they would be run,” said the report. Many of those involved in the demonstrations, perhaps more than 1,000 of them, had been given specific training.

    “Protesters were taught how to behave during a protest,” Jamila Raqib, the executive director of the U.S.-based Albert Einstein Institution, was quoted in the article as saying.

    Whether in Georgia, Ukraine, Egypt or Hong Kong “you can see the set of rules,” said Serdja Popovic, one of the student leaders involved in overthrowing Slobodan Milosevic. former leader of former Yugoslavia.(Xinhua)