occurs As Yim on the balcony ledge, howling twenty feet below him, the sirens. The 20-Year-old stretched the string of his bow and aimed the arrow at the top to the street below him, where he suspected the police. A little later, the first tear gas canister POPs beside him on the stones. It is the prelude to a fight between the police and demonstrators, which will last from Saturday until late Sunday evening. He who sees in these minutes the young man on the balcony of the Polytechnic University, Tsim Sha Tsui balance, may not believe to be in the centre of Hong Kong. The global financial metropolis. Once a beacon of freedom in Asia.
The majority of the movement is still peaceful. For days, people in their lunch, go protest break. There are strikes and peaceful rallies. 80 percent of the citizens according to a survey, but also agree with the violence on the “Front”. Yungmo you call the young Radicals: the hard core. Every day it now comes to clashes with the police. Protesters block on days with important transport hubs and bridges. Finally, you have entrenched themselves in the top five universities in the city. What began five months ago as a peaceful Protest against an extradition agreement with the mainland China, takes its temporary peak this weekend. Here in Tsim Sha Tsui. Next Sunday’s district elections are. The government is threatening to cancel. Until Tuesday, the head of government Carrie Lam has to make the decision.
demonstrators in clashes in front of the Polytechnic University with the police. (17. November 2019) image: Adnan Abidi/Reuters
Yim is masked, wears a protective armor on the body, and a helmet with a camouflage pattern. He is different in reality. Referred to not as a Student but as a “citizen Hong Kong”. With his bow he aims to the arms and legs, he says. If you ask him whether he realized that he could hurt with the bow someone is fatal, he says “Yes”. Then the tears rise to his eyes. “The police kill us,” he says. “I want to protect the people fighting in the street below.” The government is not steering. In front of the protests Yim has never held a bow in Hand.
Not every protester is armed with a bow and arrow. But no one stops Yim as he climbs on the ledge. He is the vanguard. Over the past few days, protesters have built thousands of fire rates. Blockages welded and cement are mixed, to strengthen the walls of the University. “You can learn everything on Youtube,” says a protester. At the Pool the protesters Petroleum stored in cans. Until recently, it is feared that police could storm the University. The reason: Material from the labs is missing. The University management has therefore called the police.
China’s autocracy drips like poison in the city
The balance sheet of the past few days is devastating. On Wednesday, a protester has met a man with a stone on the head and fatally injured. In the dispute, a man was doused with a liquid and set on fire. At the same time a protester is killed in an accident on the run from the police, to be fatal. The police can shoot well in focus. There are many seriously injured. The first dead protester has contributed to the radicalization of significant. An eye for an eye: This is in Hong Kong literally reality, since a demonstration of a ball was hit in the face.
violence calls into question the success of the movement. The young people fight for their freedom and for democracy. China’s autocracy drips like poison in the town. The principle of “One country, two systems”, the Beijing Hong Kong has pledged that not a lot of value. The fight was in the first few months is unreal, like David against Goliath. But this view threatens to falter, the violent parts of the movement. “We have no other choice,” says the Archer Yim. The police could do what she wanted. You would even rewarded for their crimes, he says. The officials would get a good salary and subsidized apartments. “China is to blame, not we.”
“If we burn, you burn too!”
the Protest was Hong Kong under British colonial rule, almost the only way of political participation. Since a couple of weeks the government, but no protest marches and more. She has been a state of emergency law from the colonial period, a mask, a ban on the Parliament to enforce. 4000 people have now been arrested. In any other country, the government had come to head back. Carrie Lam is not chosen. It is the population is not responsible. Lam is hated like no head of government in front of her. Your words act as a fire accelerant. Just recently she has referred to the protesters as “enemies of the people”. A Signal now appears especially fatal: Lam had taken the bill for the agreement on extradition back only as the conflict was escalating. “You have taught us that violence helps” to spray the protesters at the walls of the city. The political failure of Beijing’s threatening gesture, and the tolerance of people for violence are a toxic mix.
clashes outside the Polytechnic University. (17. November 2019) image: Adnan Abidi/Reuters
In the Polytechnic University, however, emerged at the weekend in a small town. Anyone entering the University, must pass through a Checkpoint. A young woman asks to have a look in the bag. Visitors are sampled. Women are only allowed to be used by women sampled. This is the rule. There are strict rules. The waste is separated. There is a cleaning schedule. Everywhere, where not rioted should be used to hold up signs: Clean. The vending machines, where students to charge their cafeteria cards, the Please to not damage them. In the gym, where the protesters sleep: no photos. In the room where the radical protesters, their equipment is not a journalists camps. Even on the toilet with the note: love Mitdemonstranten, you should wash your hands.
There is a lost property office, a press center, with live broadcast on six channels, and a canteen. Volunteers to cook. There are fish soups, ravioli, Spaghetti. It is only the students and students are not there. Your parents came, many Alumni and ordinary citizens. Still, Hong Kong people continue to protest and bring the demonstrators to go home. The food, masks, and medicine enough for several days, and all of them are donations. There are tooth brushes, Bandages, and someone even brought his collection of soap from hotel rooms in the past.
tear gas from mainland China leads to severe burns
The assault on universities a new escalation level for many people. For 30 years, people with a vigil to remember in June to the massacre in 1989. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people take part. The burning universities to meet the people in their hearts.
The Headquarters of the resistance is located in the second basement. Live streams are transferred to screens that show otherwise the lunch menu. Prior to that, a group of coordinated troops masked the use. If a new attack wave, send out fresh troops. There is a channel in the Messenger Telegram, in the real-time Updates are sent. In several buildings, hospital wards have been set up. In one of them is Cheung who does not want to mention his name better works. He is a nurse’s nurse and a member of an underground system of Doctors and hospitals, the protesters treat. Many come with cut wounds and lacerations, he says. The tear gas that comes out of mainland China, leading to severe burns. Some are so severely injured that Cheung would under normal circumstances immediately to the hospital. However, the police arrested the protesters still in the hospital bed and demanded the release of patient records.
It’s Sunday evening now. The day before the people’s liberation army has helped the University to eliminate the traces of the protest. The Hong Kong government said they didn’t ask the band a question. It is a further escalation, is a threat in the direction of Hong Kong. At the University, is now fighting for two days almost continuously. The protesters come in with severe skin rashes, and lacerations down the stairs. Late in the evening, the police seal off the Campus. It was in the clearance ready, “deadly force” to use, so the announcement. The protesters discuss what to do. Almost all of them want to stay. Other protesters from other areas of the city, announce herzufahren. They had rioted to a distraction in another part of the city. “If we burn, you burn too!” you scream. On the floor, next to the Statue of statesman Sun Yat-sen, sitting with a student on the floor and writes on a piece of paper your will.
Created: 17.11.2019, 20:24 PM
