Posted on 09/28/2014 6:17:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Hong Kong police have fired repeated volleys of tear gas to disperse pro-democracy protests and baton-charged the crowd blocking a key road in the government district after official warnings against illegal demonstrations.
Student groups are spearheading a civil disobedience campaign along with democracy activists to pressure Beijing into granting full democracy to Hong Kong.
The city's central district descended into chaos on Sunday as chanting protesters converged on police barricades surrounding their colleagues, who had earlier launched a "new era" of civil disobedience.
Riot police staged repeated pepper spray and baton charges and threw tear gas at the crowds. Police have not used tear gas in Hong Kong since 2005.
Organisers said as many as 80,000 people thronged the streets in the city's Admiralty district, galvanised by the arrests of student activists on Friday.
Chanting "remove the blockade" and "shame on you", thousands of protesters blocked some of Hong Kong's busiest streets and milled among the stalled traffic.
The police are warning they could use greater force if the tens of thousands demonstrators do not leave the area.
Police commissioner Andy Tsang is standing by his officers' actions.
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When China offers “one nation, two systems” they are lying. They offered it to Taiwan and it was rejected out of hand, they know better.
I think that might be more than 80,000
You are mistaken because many of those are actually part of the 450,000 attending the Global Climate Change march, comrade.
The UK should have never handed Hong Kong over. Having said that, they could have negotiated a better settlement with the PRC in the very least.
Hong Kong is the canary. Taiwanese are waiting to see how the ‘two systems’ turn out.
The cops just started advancing
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