Hong Kong’s Polytechnic University is preparing itself for a siege.
. Thousands of students and protesters have taken over the third largest university in Hong Kong. They have blocked entrances, torn up brick sidewalks for ammunition, and lined every vantage point with Molotov cocktails. The Olympic swimming pool, emptied of water, has become a practice firing range. Some walk around with bows and arrows, many blunt training arrows, others sharpened or wrapped in gauze, ready to be lit on fire.
There is only one way into the university now, and one way out. Visitors and protestors are screened at a basic security checkpoint before being allowed to enter. Polytechnic is one of five major universities being fortified by protestors. Masked protestors with makeshift weapons barricaded themselves inside the Chinese University of Hong Kong on Wednesday after violent clashes with riot police overnight.
Students from mainland China have been evacuated with police help and the university has been closed for the rest of the year.
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