WTO protests...
So the protestors in HKG have upped the ante and are no longer being 'civilised protestors'...the gloves are off and it is now time for HKG's finest to also take off their gloves...
pictures here
and Flagrant Harbour says it all...
From the SCMP
Wan Chai was under siege early this morning after more than 1,000 anti-WTO protesters clashed with police in the worst violence Hong Kong has seen in decades.
Demonstrators broke through police cordons, snatched police shields, batons and helmets, and repeatedly tried, but failed, to overturn a police van. They pulled metal barriers apart to use as weapons, along with bamboo flagpoles, and came within metres of the Convention and Exhibition Centre.
Police responded with tear gas, pepper spray and water cannon.
Some 900 defiant protesters remained on Gloucester Road this morning, but none had been arrested. At least 70 people were injured, two seriously, including 21 Chinese and 33 Koreans.
Police chief Dick Lee Ming-kwai said security at the convention centre, which was locked to ensure protesters did not storm the building, was not compromised. He said he had not contacted the PLA garrison and saw no reason to do so.
He said the 900 demonstrators had been "rounded up" by police and would be "processed in accordance with the laws of Hong Kong".
With the activists remaining in place, having rejected a police invitation to move off the road to another area, they were given a 2.30am deadline to move before officers cleared the area.
Mr Lee said police would step up the use of force if violence erupted again at a rally and march planned by overseas and local anti-WTO protest groups today.
An exploding tear-gas canister illuminates the chaos as protesters flee south along Fleming Road and ranks of riot police hold their ground, with Central Plaza in the distance. Protesters pulled metal barriers apart to use as weapons. Picture by Robert Ng
pictures here
and Flagrant Harbour says it all...
From the SCMP
Wan Chai was under siege early this morning after more than 1,000 anti-WTO protesters clashed with police in the worst violence Hong Kong has seen in decades.
Demonstrators broke through police cordons, snatched police shields, batons and helmets, and repeatedly tried, but failed, to overturn a police van. They pulled metal barriers apart to use as weapons, along with bamboo flagpoles, and came within metres of the Convention and Exhibition Centre.
Police responded with tear gas, pepper spray and water cannon.
Some 900 defiant protesters remained on Gloucester Road this morning, but none had been arrested. At least 70 people were injured, two seriously, including 21 Chinese and 33 Koreans.
Police chief Dick Lee Ming-kwai said security at the convention centre, which was locked to ensure protesters did not storm the building, was not compromised. He said he had not contacted the PLA garrison and saw no reason to do so.
He said the 900 demonstrators had been "rounded up" by police and would be "processed in accordance with the laws of Hong Kong".
With the activists remaining in place, having rejected a police invitation to move off the road to another area, they were given a 2.30am deadline to move before officers cleared the area.
Mr Lee said police would step up the use of force if violence erupted again at a rally and march planned by overseas and local anti-WTO protest groups today.
posted by Madame Chiang at 2:22 pm
2 Comments:
I think Elizabeth Tang, the spokeswoman and coordinator of WTO protests, is responsible for what happened.
She was the one who boldly told the police and news reporters that she would guarantee nothing but peaceful protests in Hong Kong (on behalf of Korean peasants and other protestors).
I know not what political ambition lies behind Tang's deceitful proclamations, but I do know, (and I anticipated at my blog - Nude King) that Korean peasants cannot have the sympathy of sensible people.
My sympathies go to the Hong Kong police, who undoubtedly are tired and f*cked up by these illiterate and rowdy Korean clowns who want the people of their own country to buy rice at a price that is 7 times higher than if cheaper and better rice imports were allowed.
And I certainly won't apologize for insulting Korean peasants at my blog. Let them go to hell, as far as I care.
And if I were the CE, I would order the police to fire real ammunition instead of pepper spray and rubber bullets and throw their mutilated bodies into Victoria Harbour.
Ciao!
couldn't agree with you more....
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