SCMP: Hong Kong protests: tens of thousands return to streets after days of calm as radicals trash shops with mainland China links
* Peaceful march in Kowloon descends into chaos, ending the near two-week hiatus of extreme protest violence
* Rounds of tear gas, rubber bullets fired by police in Whampoa, where mobs smash up stores for their mainland connections
Tens of thousands of Hongkongers returned to the streets on Sunday a week after the pro-democracy camp’s landslide election victory, but their procession rapidly descended into stand-offs with police and, by nightfall, mobs once again trashed shops with mainland China links.
After nearly two weeks of relative calm, chaos returned to the Kowloon side of the city by evening, as a group of protesters hurled bricks and police fired tear gas, while radicals set about smashing restaurants and shops in Whampoa and vandalised the exits of the railway station there.
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ReplyDeleteThis focus on mainland oriented retailers seems to be a move to secede from the mainland.
I'm surprised that the military hasn't as yet been given the order to stamp out the opposition.