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Hong Kong: Protesters Now Use Bows And Arrows by Awesome05: 2:36pm On Nov 13, 2019
Hong Kong is in chaos as protesters gather at universities with bows and arrows
Tertiary campuses become latest battleground after months of protests that have brought the city to a standstill.
The city of Hong Kong was paralysed on Wednesday morning, with much of the city’s public transport suspended and all universities closed following sharp clashes overnight with anti-government protesters.

By extensions many subway and rail stations were closed after the protesters blocked commuters and vandalised trains. Classes were suspended at schools and universities. Groups of riot police were deployed around the city centre and outlying territories to try to contain fresh violence, as students at the Chinese University prepared for more clashes with police. Many were armed with petrol bombs while some carried bows and arrows.
Primary and secondary schools sent children home late in the morning on police advice as protesters blocked major intersections in various districts with bricks and other objects, halting traffic across the city. Police cleared many of the barricades, but protesters replaced them soon after they left.

A riot police officer clashes with a protester in Hong Kong’s central district as workers look on.

The Chinese-ruled city is experiencing its sixth month of protests, which was sparked by a controversial extradition bill but has morphed into a wider pro-democracy movement.

Series of unrest, which began with citywide strikes on Monday, is expected to continue. Hong Kong’s education bureau suspended classes for all schools on Thursday.
Quarrels broke out between emotional commuters who formed long queues at bus stops after many metro stops and lines were closed. Many bus routes were also cancelled as a number of roads were blocked.

At the Chinese University of Hong Kong, which has become a flashpoint for protests, black-clad protesters assembled on Wednesday morning.

They built makeshift barricades while setting objects on fire on a bridge where conflicts occurred the night before, fearing that police might return.

Police on Tuesday night fired multiple shots and rounds of tear gas at the campus and used water cannon on students, who retaliated with petrol bombs and bricks. Riot police ordered the university’s vice chancellor Rocky Tuan to leave earlier in the evening, saying it was “not time for negotiations”.

I don’t want to resort to violence, but peaceful protest doesn’t change a thing
University of Hong Kong student
On Wednesday morning, emotions were raw at the University of Hong Kong, as a small number of black-clad and masked students jeered at riot police from an area overhanging a thoroughfare.

Chairs, desks and park benches were piled up around entrances and doorways across the camps in an apparent effort to stop police entering. Many students were outraged by the death of Chow and swore the police must repay the “blood debt”.
Several professors pleaded with police earlier not to enter the campus and said officers had promised as long as students refrained from throwing bricks onto the road. Professors also urged students not to take radical action. Some students appeared emotional, saying they were angered by police actions on university campuses.

A protester pours petrol onto a burning barricade at the Chinese University of Hong Kong on Tuesday night.

“I feel totally hopeless – I don’t want to resort to violence, but peaceful protests doesn’t change a thing. I feel there is no future ahead of us,” said a masked medical student on condition of anonymity.

Read more: https://googleweblight.com/i?u=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/13/hong-kong-student-protesters-bows-arrows-petrol-bombs-universities&hl=en-NG&tg=823&pt=17

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Re: Hong Kong: Protesters Now Use Bows And Arrows by Blakjewelry(m): 2:46pm On Nov 13, 2019
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Re: Hong Kong: Protesters Now Use Bows And Arrows by FairCritic(m): 2:58pm On Nov 13, 2019
The revolution that will take place in China, hmn.
Re: Hong Kong: Protesters Now Use Bows And Arrows by BigBasher: 7:39pm On Nov 14, 2019
When will their protest end?
Re: Hong Kong: Protesters Now Use Bows And Arrows by leofab(f): 12:06pm On Nov 16, 2019
USA hand in Hong Kong.. I wish China can mount nuclear warfare in Cuba
Re: Hong Kong: Protesters Now Use Bows And Arrows by BigBasher: 1:52pm On Nov 16, 2019
leofab:
USA hand in Hong Kong.. I wish China can mount nuclear warfare in Cuba



You want them to start another world war?
Re: Hong Kong: Protesters Now Use Bows And Arrows by Saturn101: 7:17pm On Nov 16, 2019
The trouble in China is just stating.

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