Escalation
in Hong Kong
Hal Turner is reporting that Chinese troops have been moving into Hong Kong. Apart from the video below, which doesn't really reveal anything very much there seems to be nothing to back this up except for reportage on the violence.
I have been checking (including Twitter) and I am sure that if anything of this nature was afoot we would know it outside of right-wing US sites.
However, having said that anything is possible (if not probable) in this world of ours
The Chinese government has begun moving troops across the Shenzhen Qianhai Guangshen Coastal Expressway Bridge into Hong Kong minutes ago, in a military operation to put down protests against the government of Beijing.
Hundreds
of military trucks carrying soldiers and guns are moving at this hour
across the Bridge into Hong Kong.
Enormous
Columns of military trucks are entering the city
This is from the South China Morning Post
Police
fired tear gas at protesters in an enclosed railway station for the
first time, stepping up the use of force as Hong Kong was rocked by
another weekend of violent anti-government demonstrations across
multiple districts.
Casualties
were reported on both sides after parts of Tsim Sha Tsui, Sham Shui
Po, Wan Chai and Kwai Chung became smoking war zones once again on
Sunday, with protesters continuing their new hit-and-run tactics to
stay one step ahead of police who responded to bricks and petrol
bombs with barrages of tear gas and baton charges.
According
to the Hospital Authority, as of 11.30pm on Sunday, 13 people –
nine men and four women – had been injured in protests and sent to
hospitals across the city. They are aged 17 to 56. Nine had been
discharged, and a man and woman were still in serious condition.
The
ground-level concourse of the Kwai Fong MTR station was filled with
smoke as riot police first fired tear gas into the building at
retreating protesters, then stormed inside and opened fire again.
Protesters
had been heading towards the nearby Kwai Chung Police Station for
another flash mob-style siege when they were driven back.
Tear
gas was used after multiple warnings and MTR announcements that the
station was closed and trains would not be stopping at Kwai Fong,
except for additional ones arranged to pick up people already inside.
A
man in protest gear was seen lying on the platform, with blood
running from his nose, while other protesters were helping him. Video
footage also showed a stationary train at a platform with people
still inside.
There
was more trouble later at Tai Koo station, with riot police charging
inside to grab protesters who had been moving from one station to
another.
Video
footage showed officers at the top of a long, steep escalator beating
protesters, while tear gas fumes filled the air.
One
of those who fell to the ground during the skirmish was an elderly
woman who has become a prominent fixture with a British flag at
anti-government rallies that first began more than two months ago,
triggered by the government’s now-abandoned extradition bill.
Tensions
remained high in North Point, a potentially dangerous hotspot where
hundreds from the city’s close-knit Fujianese community, bolstered
by clan reinforcements from mainland China and the Philippines,
waited to confront any protester arriving in their neighbourhood.
But
with police out in force and protesters staying away from North
Point, there were only isolated incidents of Fujianese becoming
belligerent and attacking some passers-by and journalists at the
scene.
The
tourist hub of Tsim Sha Tsui became a battlefield again and the
police station came under attack for the second straight day, with
protesters throwing petrol bombs over the barriers protecting the
building front.
Police
fired tear gas at them from inside, and at one point at night, riot
officers from the Special Tactical Squad charged out to disperse
protesters attacking them from the Park Lane Shopper’s Boulevard,
where they had blocked a key thoroughfare – the section of Nathan
Road between Austin and Salisbury roads.
The
“raptors”, as officers from the squad are known, beat protesters
with batons and made several arrests.
A
female protester was treated by paramedics at the scene, her face
bleeding after she was hit by a beanbag round, according to
witnesses. A policeman inside the station suffered burns to his legs
after being hit by a petrol bomb.
From Chinese media
- Robin Westenra RetweetedShocking footage of #HongKong riot police charging into a subway station pursuing pro-democracy activists and firing into them at point blank range. I’ve seen police being provoked here but I’m speechless. Carrie Lam says no police inquiry needed they’re investigating themselves.
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