Hong Kong police say city on the verge of total breakdown

[glockman]

SCMP Reporters
South China Morning Post 13 November 2019

Protesters engaged in fiery battles with police outside university campuses and blocked roads at multiple locations including in the city’s financial heart on Tuesday, for a second straight day of mayhem meant to bring the Hong Kong government to its knees.

At Chinese University, the site of the most violent clashes with scores of petrol bombs lobbed and tear gas deployed, water cannons showed up at 10pm spraying blue dye at protesters. Earlier, a truce was proposed after senior university officials intervened, but the pitched fighting continued after a brief interlude.

University president Rocky Tuan Sung-chi visited the scarred battlefield – littered with bricks and burnt barricades – in the evening to mediate between police and protesters. He ended up being hit by tear gas as his entourage was leaving for a police station to meet students who had been arrested earlier.

Former university chief Joseph Sung Jao-yiu also showed up later in the evening, to address students and protesters and plead with them to disengage. “Tonight I hope everyone can leave peacefully. I hope there won’t be any more tear gas or confrontation,” he said, before departing.

Most of the protesters were unmoved, still guarding their positions. By midnight, police had retreated from their earlier front lines.

Police said in a statement that a water cannon was deployed at the campus because protesters threw projectiles at officers while they retreated from the campus under a “consensus” reached with university management to defuse the situation.

“As police officers were retreating, rioters threw bricks, petrol bombs, launched arrows and even fired a signal flare at police officers. Such violence has reached a deadly level, posing a serious threat to police officers and everyone at the scene,” the statement read.

Earlier, after more than 12 hours of exchanging fire and fury, protesters sent out messages on encrypted and open social media channels asking for other students to leave their universities to converge at the campus in Sha Tin to help them defend the site, and for other well-wishers to send supplies.

Internet users wanted to create the effect that Hong Kong has stopped running. If the government is stopping our daily activities, we would be falling into their trap.





https://sg.news.yahoo.com/hong-kong-protests-pitched-battles-163722157.html

 

[Rogue Trader]

Bye bye Hong Kong

RIP

 

[halsey02]

Democracy is not working, sad to say, it needs the iron fist to stop the chaos. Blame the woman.

 

[no_faith]

These protestors are doing self inflicted damage and hurting other innocent civilians.
They are distorted.

 

[tanwahtiu]

Let HK burnt, reconstructions of tge city maje money. Current damages hv oredi depreciated.

 

[STUCK_HERE]

They got trillions in reserve. So no problem.

 

[Insider Player]

Well done
True freedom fighters
Put cowardly sinkies to shame

 

[kelvin]

Let HK burnt, reconstructions of tge city maje money. Current damages hv oredi depreciated.

.

 

[zeebjii]

Well done
True freedom fighters
Put cowardly sinkies to shame

SJW. True freedom fighters need real courage, like the french yellow vests. Dare not even show face, cry mother cry father when hand got a scratch. what a joke of a 'fighter'!

 

[countryman]

They are brave but stupid! Destroying your own city n inflicting injuries on your own people...
D-day is approaching n there will be a lot of bloodshed.

 

[rotiprata]

These protestors are doing self inflicted damage and hurting other innocent civilians.
They are distorted.

these're rioters not protestors... try doing the same in any other big cities in the EU, US or Canada...

 

[Hypocrite-The]

Hong Kong brought to standstill as university campuses become new battleground
Updated yesterday at 7:46pm

PHOTO Police said they came under arrow fire at the Chinese University of Hong Kong campus. AFP: PHILIP FONG
Pro-democracy protesters have again paralysed parts of Hong Kong, forcing schools to close and blocking highways as students built barricades and stockpiled makeshift weapons, setting the stage for campus showdowns.
Police skirmished with militant students at major university campuses around the Chinese-ruled city as authorities ordered schools and universities closed.
Thousands of students hunkered down surrounded by piles of food, bricks, petrol bombs, arrows with heads wrapped in cladding, catapults and other homemade weapons.
Police said protesters shot several arrows at them near Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

PHOTO A man is beaten after getting in an argument during a demonstration in central Hong Kong. AFP: ISAAC LAWRENCE
One of the officers was reportedly injured and six arrows were seized at the scene.
Chinese University suspended classes for the rest of the year, and others asked students to switch to online learning.
University students from mainland China and Taiwan are fleeing Hong Kong, while those from three Scandinavian countries have been moved or urged to leave.
Australia expressed its concern over escalating violence in Hong Kong, with Foreign Minister Marise Payne urging restraint on all sides in a statement.
"We are deeply concerned by the violence in Hong Kong and the increasing divide between the authorities and Hong Kong people," she said.

"We reiterate our view that it is crucial for all sides — police and protesters — to exercise restraint and take genuine steps to de-escalate tensions."

PHOTO Protesters set up barricades of bricks on the road near the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. AP: KIN CHEUNG
An independent investigation into alleged police brutality and misconduct is one of five demands issued by protesters, who have taken to Hong Kong's streets every week for more than five months.
Many blame police for the death of 22-year-old university student Chow Tsz-lk, who died last week after falling from the second floor of a car park.
Ms Payne urged Hong Kong authorities to address the recommendations of an international expert panel which concluded that Hong Kong's Independent Police Complaints Council was limited in its ability to oversee the police.
"Australia continues to urge genuine efforts by all parties to find an effective political solution that supports and upholds Hong Kong's freedoms and advantages, an open and accountable law enforcement and the professional and unbiased application of justice," she said.
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Protesters barricade financial district and university campuses
ABC News
Many Hongkongers struggled to get to work on Thursday as key thoroughfares were cut by brick and bamboo barricades, a cross-harbour tunnel was closed, and metro stations and bus services suspended.
A business and high-end retail district in the centre of the city was once again taken over by protesters at lunchtime, as it has been every day since Monday.
"The city is home to one of our biggest expatriate communities globally and our largest commercial presence in Asia," Ms Payne added.

"Australia has a substantial stake in Hong Kong's success."

More than 100,000 Australians live in Hong Kong and it is home to more than 120,000 alumni from Australian universities.
Chinese state-run newspaper the Global Times tweeted that Hong Kong would be subject to a curfew this coming weekend but later withdrew the tweet.
"I just checked how the information was obtained. My conclusion is that the information is not sufficient to support this exclusive news. I have demanded to delete the tweet," Global Times editor Hu Xijin tweeted.
Violence has escalated in recent days, with police shooting and wounding one protester at close range and one man described as a "rioter" dousing a man with petrol before setting him on fire.
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WARNING: Graphic vision of protester being shot by police at close range
ABC News
The man who was shot was in a stable condition in hospital. The man who was lit on fire suffered burns to his torso and head, and was in a critical condition.
The protests began in June as a kickback against an attempt by the city's Beijing-backed government to hustle through a bill that would have allowed the extradition of accused criminals to mainland China.
The bill was eventually shelved, but demonstrations have snowballed into a wider demand for democracy by protesters who fear the city's unique freedoms are being hacked back by Beijing.

PHOTO In central Hong Kong, demonstrators created a barricade of rubbish against the police. REUTERS: ATHIT PERAWONGMETHA
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[Rogue Trader]

Just read on the forum another rioter died from falling (new case).. waiting for official news release

 

[Hypocrite-The]

The freedom fighters are really well organised n it is a leader less organisation. The hongkies are really determined to show the middle finger to the chicoms. I doubt such actions are taken right

 

[tanwahtiu]

After the 2014 riot the CCP had enough and let HK burn this time.

Adding insult the protest, these rioters went to US to create more problems and back fired. Theycwere just entertained by Democrats who give them opium to smoke.

Small boy think he can make a different or change the world but he failed miserably.

 

[Insider Player]

The hongkies are making their Last Stand.
Those who can’t see the significance of this are democracy retarded.
I’m surprised there are no cracks within the police yet. In any people’s power revolution, the balance will tip when the army/police get their conscience prick and refuse to do regimes dirty work and harm their own people.