The Oct 1 fireworks last faced cancellation during the 2014 Umbrella movement. FMTNews
HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s Jockey Club cancelled all races planned for Wednesday after pro-democracy protesters said they would target the Happy Valley racecourse where a horse part-owned by a pro-China lawmaker was due to run.The Jockey Club said it had been “monitoring the situation” closely in Chinese-ruled Hong Kong, which has been rocked by more than three months of sometimes violent protests.
There has been a horse-racing track there since just after British colonial rule began in the mid-1800s.Police fired water cannon and volleys of tear gas on Sunday to disperse protesters, many of them masked and wearing black, who threw petrol bombs and set fires in Causeway Bay and the nearby Central district.
The Hong Kong government said on Wednesday a giant fireworks display over the harbour planned for Oct 1 had been called off “in view of the latest situation and having regard to public safety”.The last time the Oct 1 fireworks were cancelled was during the 2014 Umbrella movement, when pro-democracy protests gridlocked parts of the city for 79 days.
Sunday’s violence followed a peaceful rally outside the British Consulate where protesters said “one country, two systems” was dead and urged Britain to call on China to stand by its promises.
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