Police say Chinese University of Hong Kong has been 'turned into a powder keg'. FMTNews
HONG KONG: The president of Hong Kong’s Chinese University, which anti-government protesters have turned into a fortress stockpiled with petrol bombs and bows and arrows, threatened on Friday to call in “assistance” unless all non-students leave.
Students and protesters have barricaded at least five campuses after four days of some of the worst violence in the former British colony for decades.“Universities are places to study, not to resolve political disputes, or even a battlefield to create weapons and use force,” he said. On Monday, police blamed a “rioter” for dousing a man in petrol and setting him on fire. The victim is in critical condition.Protesters who had barricaded themselves in a Hong Kong university this week begin to leave after partially clearing a road they had blocked. “Rioters’ violence has infiltrated into almost every corner of society and now turned the Chinese University of Hong Kong into a powder keg,” police spokesman Chief Superintendent Tse Chun-chung told a briefing.
The protests escalated in June over a now-scrapped extradition bill that would have allowed people to be sent to mainland China for trial. The demonstrations have battered the retail and tourism sectors, with widespread disruptions across the financial centre and no end in sight to the violence and vandalism.
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