Hong Kong police fired tear gas at protesters throwing petrol bombs on Sunday as...
HONG KONG - Hong Kong police fired tear gas at protesters throwing petrol bombs on Sunday as thousands staged an illegal march through the Kowloon district that will test the strength of the pro-democracy campaign after four months of unrest.
Hardcore black-clad protesters threw petrol bombs at the station’s iron gate and several inside the compound. The protests in the Chinese-ruled city also pose the biggest popular challenge to China’s President Xi Jinping since he took power. Beijing has denied eroding Hong Kong’s freedoms and Xi has vowed to crush any attempt to split China.
Hardcore protesters, who have staged running battles with police and torched metro stations, set up road blocks and sprayed graffiti saying: “We chose to die on our feet rather than live on our knees!”. Protesters are angry at Hong Kong’s leader Carrie Lam for what they see as her failure to protect those freedoms from an encroaching Beijing, imposing colonial-era emergency powers, and allowing what they say is excessive force by police.
Hong Kong has been relatively calm in the past two weeks after violent protests fueled by the introduction of emergency laws, which ban face masks at public rallies.
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