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Serious Shiok! AMDK Worshipping HKies Wacked & Runned Like Ball-less Chickens!
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Lucky sinkapore got PAP
Hongkies deserved this.
Lol.
The central government don't need to send in thugs. There are many triads and politicians who will willingly show their support for Beijing to preserve their rice bowls
Hong kong civil war? Today white shirts with sticks, tomorrow protestors with parangs?
45 injured after mob attack at Hong Kong MTR station
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Screengrab of a video showing men wearing white attacking protesters and commuters at Hong Kong's Yuen Long MTR station on Jul 21, 2019.
22 Jul 2019 11:15AM (Updated: 22 Jul 2019 04:27PM)
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HONG KONG: At least 45 people were injured, with one person in critical condition, after a group of masked men attacked anti-government protesters and commuters at a Hong Kong train station on Sunday night (Jul 21), according to the city's hospital authorities.
The group, many wielding sticks and clad in white T-shirts, flooded into a Mass Transit Railway (MTR) station in the rural Yuen Long district, storming a train and attacking passengers, according to footage taken by commuters and opposition lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting.
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READ: Police took longer to get to Hong Kong train station attacks as manpower was 'stretched': Police Commissioner
Eyewitnesses said they appeared to target black-shirted passengers who had been at an anti-government march and the attack came after several thousand activists surrounded China's representative office in the city, later clashing with police.
Footage broadcast live on Facebook showed people screaming as the men beat multiple protesters and journalists in the station and inside trains, leaving pools of blood on the floor.
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Screengrab of a video showing men wearing white and wielding sticks attacking commuters at Hong Kong's Yuen Long MTR station on Jul 21, 2019.
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Screengrabs from a video showing the violence at Yuen Long MTR station. (Images: Facebook / Lam Cheuk Ting)
One government worker, aged 22, described chaotic scenes as people ran in disarray off a train under attack, despite word that gangsters were assaulting people on the street as well.
"People started to run in all directions, just avoiding the gangsters," he said.
READ: Masked men assault protesters, commuters in Hong Kong MTR station
Critics rounded on the city's embattled police force, accusing officers of taking more than an hour to reach the station despite frantic calls from those under attack and then failing to arrest the armed men who stayed in the streets around the station into Monday morning.
Some men in white shirts were later filmed leaving the scene in cars with Chinese mainland number plates.
Lam, a pro-democracy lawmaker, was one of those wounded in the melee, sustaining lacerations to his face and arms. He criticised police for their response and accused "triad members" of being behind the attacks.
"Their very barbaric and violent acts have already completely violated the bottom line of Hong Kong's civilised society," he told reporters early on Monday.
"Is Hong Kong now allowing triads to do what they want, beating up people on the street with weapons?"
"TRIADS ARE BEATING UP HONG KONG PEOPLE"
Furious fellow pro-democracy lawmakers held a press conference on Monday where they accused the city's pro-Beijing leaders of turning a blind eye to the attacks.
"This is triad gangs beating up Hong Kong people," fumed Alvin Yeung. "Yet you pretend nothing had happened?"
The clashes have ratcheted up fears that the city's feared triad gangs are wading into the political conflict.
Yuen Long lies in the New Territories near the Chinese border where the criminal gangs and staunchly pro-Beijing rural committees remain influential.
Similar assaults by pro-government vigilantes against demonstrators during the 2014 "Umbrella Movement" protests were blamed on triads.
READ: Tear gas and rubber bullets fired as Hong Kong returns to chaos
As the mob rampage unfolded in Yuen Long, police were simultaneously battling hardcore democracy protesters in the middle of the city's commercial district.
Riot officers fired tear gas and rubber bullets at anti-government protesters, hours after China's office in the city was daubed with eggs and graffiti in a vivid rebuke to Beijing's rule.
Another 13 people were injured after the clashes on Hong Kong island, one seriously, the Hospital Authority said.
In a statement on Monday, police "strongly condemned" both the violent incidents in Yuen Long and Hong Kong island, and said they were investigating both cases. Police added no arrests had been made at the station or during a follow-up search of a nearby village.
Yau Nai-keung, Yuen Long assistant district police commander, told reporters that an initial police patrol had to wait for more reinforcements given a situation involving more than 100 people.
He added police saw no weapons when they arrived although eyewitnesses said they saw groups of men in white with poles and bamboo staves at a nearby village.
"We can't say you have a problem because you are dressed in white and we have to arrest you. We will treat them fairly no matter which camp they are in," Yau said.
READ: What lies ahead for Hong Kong, a city on edge
Hong Kong has been plunged into its worst crisis in recent history by weeks of marches and sporadic violent confrontations between police and pockets of hardcore protesters.
The initial protests were lit by a now-suspended Bill that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China.
But they have since evolved into a wider movement calling for democratic reforms, universal suffrage and a halt to sliding freedoms in the semi-autonomous territory.
The city's parliament was trashed by protesters earlier this month, as Beijing's authority faces its most serious challenge since Hong Kong was handed back to China in 1997.
Source: Agencies/aa(cy)
Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/new...-long-mtr-station-masked-men-injured-11741980
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Screengrab of a video showing men wearing white attacking protesters and commuters at Hong Kong's Yuen Long MTR station on Jul 21, 2019.
22 Jul 2019 11:15AM (Updated: 22 Jul 2019 04:27PM)
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HONG KONG: At least 45 people were injured, with one person in critical condition, after a group of masked men attacked anti-government protesters and commuters at a Hong Kong train station on Sunday night (Jul 21), according to the city's hospital authorities.
The group, many wielding sticks and clad in white T-shirts, flooded into a Mass Transit Railway (MTR) station in the rural Yuen Long district, storming a train and attacking passengers, according to footage taken by commuters and opposition lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting.
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READ: Police took longer to get to Hong Kong train station attacks as manpower was 'stretched': Police Commissioner
Eyewitnesses said they appeared to target black-shirted passengers who had been at an anti-government march and the attack came after several thousand activists surrounded China's representative office in the city, later clashing with police.
Footage broadcast live on Facebook showed people screaming as the men beat multiple protesters and journalists in the station and inside trains, leaving pools of blood on the floor.
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image: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/ima...9f2ee647c84a863/MB/yuen-long-mtr-violence.jpg
image: data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==
Screengrabs from a video showing the violence at Yuen Long MTR station. (Images: Facebook / Lam Cheuk Ting)
One government worker, aged 22, described chaotic scenes as people ran in disarray off a train under attack, despite word that gangsters were assaulting people on the street as well.
"People started to run in all directions, just avoiding the gangsters," he said.
READ: Masked men assault protesters, commuters in Hong Kong MTR station
Critics rounded on the city's embattled police force, accusing officers of taking more than an hour to reach the station despite frantic calls from those under attack and then failing to arrest the armed men who stayed in the streets around the station into Monday morning.
Some men in white shirts were later filmed leaving the scene in cars with Chinese mainland number plates.
Lam, a pro-democracy lawmaker, was one of those wounded in the melee, sustaining lacerations to his face and arms. He criticised police for their response and accused "triad members" of being behind the attacks.
"Their very barbaric and violent acts have already completely violated the bottom line of Hong Kong's civilised society," he told reporters early on Monday.
"Is Hong Kong now allowing triads to do what they want, beating up people on the street with weapons?"
"TRIADS ARE BEATING UP HONG KONG PEOPLE"
Furious fellow pro-democracy lawmakers held a press conference on Monday where they accused the city's pro-Beijing leaders of turning a blind eye to the attacks.
"This is triad gangs beating up Hong Kong people," fumed Alvin Yeung. "Yet you pretend nothing had happened?"
The clashes have ratcheted up fears that the city's feared triad gangs are wading into the political conflict.
Yuen Long lies in the New Territories near the Chinese border where the criminal gangs and staunchly pro-Beijing rural committees remain influential.
Similar assaults by pro-government vigilantes against demonstrators during the 2014 "Umbrella Movement" protests were blamed on triads.
READ: Tear gas and rubber bullets fired as Hong Kong returns to chaos
As the mob rampage unfolded in Yuen Long, police were simultaneously battling hardcore democracy protesters in the middle of the city's commercial district.
Riot officers fired tear gas and rubber bullets at anti-government protesters, hours after China's office in the city was daubed with eggs and graffiti in a vivid rebuke to Beijing's rule.
Another 13 people were injured after the clashes on Hong Kong island, one seriously, the Hospital Authority said.
In a statement on Monday, police "strongly condemned" both the violent incidents in Yuen Long and Hong Kong island, and said they were investigating both cases. Police added no arrests had been made at the station or during a follow-up search of a nearby village.
Yau Nai-keung, Yuen Long assistant district police commander, told reporters that an initial police patrol had to wait for more reinforcements given a situation involving more than 100 people.
He added police saw no weapons when they arrived although eyewitnesses said they saw groups of men in white with poles and bamboo staves at a nearby village.
"We can't say you have a problem because you are dressed in white and we have to arrest you. We will treat them fairly no matter which camp they are in," Yau said.
READ: What lies ahead for Hong Kong, a city on edge
Hong Kong has been plunged into its worst crisis in recent history by weeks of marches and sporadic violent confrontations between police and pockets of hardcore protesters.
The initial protests were lit by a now-suspended Bill that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China.
But they have since evolved into a wider movement calling for democratic reforms, universal suffrage and a halt to sliding freedoms in the semi-autonomous territory.
The city's parliament was trashed by protesters earlier this month, as Beijing's authority faces its most serious challenge since Hong Kong was handed back to China in 1997.
Source: Agencies/aa(cy)
Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/new...-long-mtr-station-masked-men-injured-11741980
Hong Kong police ‘stretched’, took longer to respond to train station attack: Police commissioner
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Protesters in Hong Kong confront police after a mob attack at a train station on Jul 21, 2019, left at least 45 injured. (Screengrab: The Stand News/Reuters)
22 Jul 2019 03:50PM (Updated: 22 Jul 2019 05:26PM)
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HONG KONG: It took longer than expected for police to respond to the attacks at a Mass Transit Railway (MTR) station in Yuen Long because of manpower issues, Hong Kong Police Commissioner Stephen Lo said on Monday (Jul 22).
The attacks on Sunday night left at least 45 injured and one person in a critical state, according to the Hospital Authority.
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Police have come under criticism for an apparent failure to protect anti-government protesters and passers-by from the attack in the New Territories near the Chinese border.
Speaking at a press conference on Monday, Mr Lo defended his force, saying officers were busy dealing with violent anti-government protests elsewhere.
"Definitely our manpower is stretched," he told reporters, describing any suggestion police colluded with suspected triads as a "smear". He added that the police would pursue the attackers.
READ: 45 injured after mob attack at Hong Kong MTR station
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"Every time when there is a major event, which may lead to violent confrontations, we have to redeploy some of my manpower from various districts to the Hong Kong Island, so that I can ensure sufficient manpower to deal with (that) incident.
"Violence will only breed violence. I really don’t want to see what happened in Yuen Long, happen again."
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Hong Kong police commissioner Stephen Lo speaks to the media on Jul 22, 2019.
READ: Tear gas and rubber bullets fired as Hong Kong returns to chaos
Mr Lo's comments came after opposition lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting, who was injured in Sunday night's attack, criticised police for their slow response and accused "triad members" of being behind the attacks.
Lam, who was wounded in the face and hospitalised, said the police ignored calls he made.
"They deliberately turned a blind eye to these attacks by triads on regular citizens," he told Reuters, saying the floors of the station were streaked with blood.
"I won't speculate on why they didn't help immediately," he said.
"Is Hong Kong now allowing triads to do what they want, beating up people on the street with weapons?" he added.
In his response, the police commissioner refuted the claim that authorities were not responding to the incident, and said that emergency calls were piling up. He added that many people were on the line for a long time.
He said that the police will review their manpower deployment and bring the offenders to justice.
Yuen Long assistant district police commander Yau Nai-keung added that an initial police patrol had to wait for reinforcements given a situation involving more than 100 people.
Yau told reporters the police had not made any arrests at the station or during a follow-up search of a nearby village, but were investigating.
Witnesses saw groups of men in white with poles and bamboo staves at the village, but Yau said police saw no weapons when they arrived. Following some questioning of the men, they were allowed to leave, he told reporters.
"We can't say you have a problem because you are dressed in white and we have to arrest you. We will treat them fairly no matter which camp they are in," Yau said.
READ: Hong Kong protests: How violence erupted in the city over a polarising extradition Bill
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People being attacked on Sunday (Jul 21) at a Hong Kong train station by suspected triad members. (Screengrab: The Stand News/Reuters)
CARRIE LAM CONDEMNS ATTACK
Hong Kong's Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Monday also condemned the attack on China’s liaison office, saying it was a "challenge" to national sovereignty.
She added such actions "hurt the feelings of the Chinese nation", echoing the sentiments of the Beijing's Liaison Office's head, Wang Zhimin.
"Violence is not the solution to any problem. Violence will only breed more violence and at the end of the day the whole of Hong Kong and people will suffer as a result of the loss of law and order in Hong Kong," she said to the media.
She condemned violent behaviour of any kind and described as "shocking" the apparent attack by triad criminal gangs on ordinary citizens and protesters at the station, saying authorities would investigate fully.
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Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam speaks to the media on Jul 22, 2019 after a violent protest in the city over the weekend.
The city has seen millions turn out in protest over the past months, demonstrating against an extradition Bill to allow extraditions to the Chinese mainland.
READ: Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam says extradition Bill is 'dead'
Ms Lam has apologised for the turmoil the extradition Bill has caused and declared the Bill "dead". Opponents of the Bill, which they fear could be used to silence dissent, say nothing short of its withdrawal will do.
China has condemned the violent protests as an "undisguised challenge" to the "one country, two systems" formula.
Source: CNA/Reuters/aa(mi)
Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/new...-station-yuen-long-police-carrie-lam-11742882
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Protesters in Hong Kong confront police after a mob attack at a train station on Jul 21, 2019, left at least 45 injured. (Screengrab: The Stand News/Reuters)
22 Jul 2019 03:50PM (Updated: 22 Jul 2019 05:26PM)
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HONG KONG: It took longer than expected for police to respond to the attacks at a Mass Transit Railway (MTR) station in Yuen Long because of manpower issues, Hong Kong Police Commissioner Stephen Lo said on Monday (Jul 22).
The attacks on Sunday night left at least 45 injured and one person in a critical state, according to the Hospital Authority.
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Police have come under criticism for an apparent failure to protect anti-government protesters and passers-by from the attack in the New Territories near the Chinese border.
Speaking at a press conference on Monday, Mr Lo defended his force, saying officers were busy dealing with violent anti-government protests elsewhere.
"Definitely our manpower is stretched," he told reporters, describing any suggestion police colluded with suspected triads as a "smear". He added that the police would pursue the attackers.
READ: 45 injured after mob attack at Hong Kong MTR station
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"Every time when there is a major event, which may lead to violent confrontations, we have to redeploy some of my manpower from various districts to the Hong Kong Island, so that I can ensure sufficient manpower to deal with (that) incident.
"Violence will only breed violence. I really don’t want to see what happened in Yuen Long, happen again."
image: data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==
Hong Kong police commissioner Stephen Lo speaks to the media on Jul 22, 2019.
READ: Tear gas and rubber bullets fired as Hong Kong returns to chaos
Mr Lo's comments came after opposition lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting, who was injured in Sunday night's attack, criticised police for their slow response and accused "triad members" of being behind the attacks.
Lam, who was wounded in the face and hospitalised, said the police ignored calls he made.
"They deliberately turned a blind eye to these attacks by triads on regular citizens," he told Reuters, saying the floors of the station were streaked with blood.
"I won't speculate on why they didn't help immediately," he said.
"Is Hong Kong now allowing triads to do what they want, beating up people on the street with weapons?" he added.
In his response, the police commissioner refuted the claim that authorities were not responding to the incident, and said that emergency calls were piling up. He added that many people were on the line for a long time.
He said that the police will review their manpower deployment and bring the offenders to justice.
Yuen Long assistant district police commander Yau Nai-keung added that an initial police patrol had to wait for reinforcements given a situation involving more than 100 people.
Yau told reporters the police had not made any arrests at the station or during a follow-up search of a nearby village, but were investigating.
Witnesses saw groups of men in white with poles and bamboo staves at the village, but Yau said police saw no weapons when they arrived. Following some questioning of the men, they were allowed to leave, he told reporters.
"We can't say you have a problem because you are dressed in white and we have to arrest you. We will treat them fairly no matter which camp they are in," Yau said.
READ: Hong Kong protests: How violence erupted in the city over a polarising extradition Bill
image: data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==
People being attacked on Sunday (Jul 21) at a Hong Kong train station by suspected triad members. (Screengrab: The Stand News/Reuters)
CARRIE LAM CONDEMNS ATTACK
Hong Kong's Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Monday also condemned the attack on China’s liaison office, saying it was a "challenge" to national sovereignty.
She added such actions "hurt the feelings of the Chinese nation", echoing the sentiments of the Beijing's Liaison Office's head, Wang Zhimin.
"Violence is not the solution to any problem. Violence will only breed more violence and at the end of the day the whole of Hong Kong and people will suffer as a result of the loss of law and order in Hong Kong," she said to the media.
She condemned violent behaviour of any kind and described as "shocking" the apparent attack by triad criminal gangs on ordinary citizens and protesters at the station, saying authorities would investigate fully.
image: data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam speaks to the media on Jul 22, 2019 after a violent protest in the city over the weekend.
The city has seen millions turn out in protest over the past months, demonstrating against an extradition Bill to allow extraditions to the Chinese mainland.
READ: Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam says extradition Bill is 'dead'
Ms Lam has apologised for the turmoil the extradition Bill has caused and declared the Bill "dead". Opponents of the Bill, which they fear could be used to silence dissent, say nothing short of its withdrawal will do.
China has condemned the violent protests as an "undisguised challenge" to the "one country, two systems" formula.
Source: CNA/Reuters/aa(mi)
Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/new...-station-yuen-long-police-carrie-lam-11742882
Masked men assault protesters, commuters in Hong Kong MTR station
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Screengrabs from a video showing the violence at Yuen Long MTR station. (Images: Facebook / Lam Cheuk Ting)
22 Jul 2019 08:11AM (Updated: 22 Jul 2019 04:28PM)
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HONG KONG: A group of masked men, many wielding sticks and dressed in white clothes, attacked anti-government protesters and commuters inside a Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway (MTR) station on Sunday night (Jul 21).
At the station in the New Territories district of Yuen Long, screams rang out as protesters who had attended a demonstration earlier in the day were attacked by men in white T-shirts, some armed with poles, as they arrived home.
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READ: Police took longer to get to Hong Kong train station attacks as manpower was 'stretched': Police Commissioner
READ: 45 injured after mob attacks protesters, commuters at Hong Kong MTR station
The attack has ratcheted up fears that the city's feared triad gangs are wading into the political conflict.
Sunday evening's coordinated assault took place in a district in the city's New Territories near the Chinese border where the criminal gangs remain influential.
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Footage showed the men attacking protesters on the platform and inside trains.
A live Facebook broadcast by local news outlet Stand News showed the men charging into a crowd of protesters in Yuen Long, a district in the city's northwest, close to the border with China.
The female reporter who was broadcasting Stand News' footage was one of those attacked as she was knocked to the ground and kicked multiple times.
READ: Tear gas and rubber bullets fired as Hong Kong returns to chaos
Lam Cheuk Ting, a Hong Kong opposition lawmaker, live-streamed the scene at Yuen Long MTR station on Facebook.
In the video, people clad in white could be seen violently facing off with black-clad protesters.
Blood could be seen on the station's floor, along with broken batons and debris.
The violence then spread onto a crowded train at a platform, with the people in white seen boarding the train and attacking those on board with sticks and batons and throwing items at them from the platform.
Similar assaults by pro-government vigilantes took place against demonstrators during the 2014 "Umbrella Movement" protests.
The incident at Yuen Long came after tens of thousands of protesters marched through the streets of Hong Kong - the seventh weekend in a row that residents have come out en masse amid anger over a controversial extradition Bill.
Late in the evening, thousands defied police orders and marched beyond the official end-point of the rally as they made their way toward the Liaison Office, in a direct challenge to authorities in Beijing.
Some protesters pelted eggs at the walls of the office, while others spray-painted graffiti.
"ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE"
Responding to the "violent acts" in Sheung Wan and Yuen Long, the Hong Kong government issued a statement condemning the violence.
"Following the storming of the CPGLO (Central People's Government Liaison Office) building, some radical protesters initiated a series of violent acts in Sheung Wan area, despite repeated warnings by the police," said the statement. "These outrageous, violent acts included hurling petrol bombs, setting fires and throwing bricks. Thoroughfares were also blocked.
"Meanwhile in Yuen Long, some people congregated at the platforms of the MTR station and train compartments, attacking commuters," said the statement. "It led to confrontations and injuries."
It added: "This is absolutely unacceptable to Hong Kong as a society that observes the rule of law. The SAR government strongly condemns any violence and will seriously take enforcement actions."
The police similarly condemned the incidents, adding that some police officers were injured in the Sheung Wan incident and that protesters had charged police lines and hurled bricks, smoke grenades, petrol bombs and had set fires.
"Meanwhile, assault cases also happened in Yuen Long. Some people attacked commuters at the platforms of the Yuen Long MTR station and train compartments, resulting in multiple injuries," said the police statement published on the Hong Kong government's website.
The city has seen millions turn out in protest over the past months, demonstrating against an extradition Bill to allow extraditions to the Chinese mainland.
READ: Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam says extradition Bill is 'dead'
Hong Kong's Chief Executive Carrie Lam has apologised for the turmoil the extradition Bill has caused and declared it "dead". Opponents of the Bill, which they fear could be used to silence dissent, say nothing short of its withdrawal will do.
China has condemned the violent protests as an "undisguised challenge" to the one country, two systems formula.
Source: CNA/agencies/nc
Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/new...-station-protesters-masked-men-white-11741840
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Screengrabs from a video showing the violence at Yuen Long MTR station. (Images: Facebook / Lam Cheuk Ting)
22 Jul 2019 08:11AM (Updated: 22 Jul 2019 04:28PM)
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HONG KONG: A group of masked men, many wielding sticks and dressed in white clothes, attacked anti-government protesters and commuters inside a Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway (MTR) station on Sunday night (Jul 21).
At the station in the New Territories district of Yuen Long, screams rang out as protesters who had attended a demonstration earlier in the day were attacked by men in white T-shirts, some armed with poles, as they arrived home.
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READ: Police took longer to get to Hong Kong train station attacks as manpower was 'stretched': Police Commissioner
READ: 45 injured after mob attacks protesters, commuters at Hong Kong MTR station
The attack has ratcheted up fears that the city's feared triad gangs are wading into the political conflict.
Sunday evening's coordinated assault took place in a district in the city's New Territories near the Chinese border where the criminal gangs remain influential.
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Footage showed the men attacking protesters on the platform and inside trains.
A live Facebook broadcast by local news outlet Stand News showed the men charging into a crowd of protesters in Yuen Long, a district in the city's northwest, close to the border with China.
The female reporter who was broadcasting Stand News' footage was one of those attacked as she was knocked to the ground and kicked multiple times.
READ: Tear gas and rubber bullets fired as Hong Kong returns to chaos
Lam Cheuk Ting, a Hong Kong opposition lawmaker, live-streamed the scene at Yuen Long MTR station on Facebook.
In the video, people clad in white could be seen violently facing off with black-clad protesters.
Blood could be seen on the station's floor, along with broken batons and debris.
The violence then spread onto a crowded train at a platform, with the people in white seen boarding the train and attacking those on board with sticks and batons and throwing items at them from the platform.
Similar assaults by pro-government vigilantes took place against demonstrators during the 2014 "Umbrella Movement" protests.
The incident at Yuen Long came after tens of thousands of protesters marched through the streets of Hong Kong - the seventh weekend in a row that residents have come out en masse amid anger over a controversial extradition Bill.
Late in the evening, thousands defied police orders and marched beyond the official end-point of the rally as they made their way toward the Liaison Office, in a direct challenge to authorities in Beijing.
Some protesters pelted eggs at the walls of the office, while others spray-painted graffiti.
"ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE"
Responding to the "violent acts" in Sheung Wan and Yuen Long, the Hong Kong government issued a statement condemning the violence.
"Following the storming of the CPGLO (Central People's Government Liaison Office) building, some radical protesters initiated a series of violent acts in Sheung Wan area, despite repeated warnings by the police," said the statement. "These outrageous, violent acts included hurling petrol bombs, setting fires and throwing bricks. Thoroughfares were also blocked.
"Meanwhile in Yuen Long, some people congregated at the platforms of the MTR station and train compartments, attacking commuters," said the statement. "It led to confrontations and injuries."
It added: "This is absolutely unacceptable to Hong Kong as a society that observes the rule of law. The SAR government strongly condemns any violence and will seriously take enforcement actions."
The police similarly condemned the incidents, adding that some police officers were injured in the Sheung Wan incident and that protesters had charged police lines and hurled bricks, smoke grenades, petrol bombs and had set fires.
"Meanwhile, assault cases also happened in Yuen Long. Some people attacked commuters at the platforms of the Yuen Long MTR station and train compartments, resulting in multiple injuries," said the police statement published on the Hong Kong government's website.
The city has seen millions turn out in protest over the past months, demonstrating against an extradition Bill to allow extraditions to the Chinese mainland.
READ: Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam says extradition Bill is 'dead'
Hong Kong's Chief Executive Carrie Lam has apologised for the turmoil the extradition Bill has caused and declared it "dead". Opponents of the Bill, which they fear could be used to silence dissent, say nothing short of its withdrawal will do.
China has condemned the violent protests as an "undisguised challenge" to the one country, two systems formula.
Source: CNA/agencies/nc
Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/new...-station-protesters-masked-men-white-11741840
Hongkongers demand answers from police over violent 'triad' attacks on protesters
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VIDEO: A group of men in white shirts descended on a Hong Kong subway and attacked scores of people. (ABC News)
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Hongkongers are pointing fingers at the police for failing to protect pro-democracy protestors and bystanders attacked by armed groups on the weekend.
Key points:
The attack on Sunday came during a night of escalating violence that opened new fronts in Hong Kong's widening political crisis over an extradition bill, which has since spoken to wider existential concerns about the future of Hong Kong's freedoms.
Protesters had earlier surrounded China's main representative office in the city and defaced walls and signs and clashed with police — a move that Chinese state media has strongly condemned.
The city's Beijing-appointed leader, Carrie Lam, also condemned the attack on China's main office, and said it was a "challenge" to national sovereignty.
PHOTO: Ms Lam denied allegations that the police colluded with the masked assailants, of whom none were arrested. (AP: Vincent Yu)
She condemned violent behaviour of any kind and said she had been shocked by the clashes at the station, adding police would investigate fully.
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More scenes of the most savage violence from Triad members in Yuen Long MTR, where anyone suspected of being a pro-democracy demonstrator returning from the march (particularly people in black, which has been the dress code) was brutally attacked. Police didn't arrive for 30 mins
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Some politicians and activists have linked Hong Kong's shadowy network of triad criminal gangs to political intimidation and violence in recent years, sometimes against pro-democracy activists and critics of Beijing.
Video released on Sunday night showed scores of men in white T-shirts, some armed with clubs, flooding into the rural Yuen Long station, storming a train, attacking passengers with pipes, poles and other objects.
Witnesses, including Democratic lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting, said the men appeared to target black-shirted passengers who had been at an anti-government march.
Mr Lam, who was wounded in the face and hospitalised, said the police ignored calls he made, pleading with them to intervene to prevent bloodshed.
'It is a triad fight, not a normal confrontation'
PHOTO: Some protesters were left with substantial injuries following the attack. (AP via Apple Daily)
Forty-five people were injured in the violence at the station, with one in critical condition, according to hospital authorities.
Hong Kong's police chief Stephen Lo, asked why police had been slow to respond to the clash at the station, said there had been a need to "redeploy manpower from other districts".
Police stations nearby had closed given the risk of unrest, and a patrol on the scene needed to wait for reinforcements, he said.
In a video released by a pro-democracy activist, a police commander is heard telling a Radio Television Hong Kong (RTKH) reporter that he didn't realise he was late because he didn't get the chance to look at his watch.
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Infuriating: Li Hon Man, a Hong Kong police division commander, tells reporters he has no idea whether cops were late to the scene in Yuen Long — where bands of thugs were beating civilians bloody with impunity — because he "couldn't see his watch."
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When pressed on why he wasn't able to detail when his unit arrived on the scene, he said:
Witnesses saw groups of men in white with poles and bamboo staves at a nearby village but police later found no weapons and allowed the men to leave without making any arrests.
"We can't say you have a problem because you are dressed in white and we have to arrest you," said Yau Nai-keung, an assistant police commander in the area.
"We will treat them fairly no matter which camp they are in."
Some banks and shops in the area closed early on Monday amid fears of more trouble.
Hong Kong's anti-triad police units in 2014 investigated the role of triad gangs attacking protesters during the pro-democracy demonstrations that shut down parts of the city for 79 days that year.
PHOTO: Riot police were pictured speaking to men in white t-shirts accused of attacking pro-democracy protesters.(Reuters: Tyrone Siu)
Alvin Yeung, a barrister and lawmaker with the pro-democracy Civic Party, said he was sure the men were from gangs.
"I hope that the police will not deceive themselves," Mr Yeung said.
PHOTO: State newspaper Xinhua said that defacing China's national emblem "caused unbearable pain and anger". (AP: Bobby Yip, file)
Hong Kong has been rocked by its most serious crisis since Britain handed the Asian financial hub back to Chinese rule in 1997.
A British past and Chinese future
Take a look at how Hong Kong's near-200-year history has shaped the territory while prompting the largest protests in its history.
Under the terms of the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984, Hong Kong was allowed to retain extensive freedoms not enjoyed on the mainland under a "one country, two systems" formula, including an independent judiciary and the right to protest for a period of 50 years.
In 2017, the 20th anniversary of handover, Beijing said the document was not binding and had "no longer any practical significance".
Many city residents fear the proposed extradition law, which would allow extraditions with other jurisdictions including that of mainland China, would undermine Hong Kong's judicial independence.
Critics of the law also alleged that it would make it far easier for Beijing to silence its critics in Hong Kong.
The city's Beijing-backed government, responding to the scale of the protests, have not officially withdrawn it from the legislature, but Chief Executive Lam said the bill was "dead".
There have been numerous calls on her to resign.
PHOTO: Protestors have begun donning gas masks to minimise the effects of tear gas thrown by police. (AP via HK01: Eric Tsang)
A political manifesto first revealed when protesters stormed Hong Kong's Legislative Council was re-iterated by protesters.
Hong Kong's pro-democracy manifesto
They are also demanding independent inquiries into the use of the police against protesters.
On Sunday, police fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse activists after thousands had ringed Beijing's Liaison Office.
The police said in statement that protesters hurled bricks, smoke grenades and petrol bombs during the unrest that came after hundreds of thousands marched through the city streets.
The Chinese government, including office director Wang Zhimin, condemned the turmoil, which included spray-painting and hurling eggs at walls and a national emblem at the office, saying the behaviour challenged the "authority and dignity" of the Chinese government.
From optimism to a siege
Following Hong Kong's handover to China in 1997, relations between the mainland and the autonomous territory have plummeted. Now anti-Chinese sentiment is at an all-time high.
A foreign ministry spokesman said such acts tested Beijing's limits.
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Posted earlier today at 12:53am
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VIDEO: A group of men in white shirts descended on a Hong Kong subway and attacked scores of people. (ABC News)
RELATED STORY: Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters beaten by masked attackers
RELATED STORY: Hong Kong protests have every possibility of escalating out of control
RELATED STORY: Hong Kong was once optimistic about being part of China — what went wrong?
Hongkongers are pointing fingers at the police for failing to protect pro-democracy protestors and bystanders attacked by armed groups on the weekend.
Key points:
- A group of masked men attacked protesters and bystanders in a subway on Sunday
- Some have linked them to triad groups who attacked democracy protesters in 2014
- Hong Kong police have been criticised for not arresting any of the attackers
The attack on Sunday came during a night of escalating violence that opened new fronts in Hong Kong's widening political crisis over an extradition bill, which has since spoken to wider existential concerns about the future of Hong Kong's freedoms.
Protesters had earlier surrounded China's main representative office in the city and defaced walls and signs and clashed with police — a move that Chinese state media has strongly condemned.
The city's Beijing-appointed leader, Carrie Lam, also condemned the attack on China's main office, and said it was a "challenge" to national sovereignty.
PHOTO: Ms Lam denied allegations that the police colluded with the masked assailants, of whom none were arrested. (AP: Vincent Yu)She condemned violent behaviour of any kind and said she had been shocked by the clashes at the station, adding police would investigate fully.
"Violence will only breed more violence," Ms Lam said.
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https://twitter.com/JackHHazlewood/status/1152977077223723009
More scenes of the most savage violence from Triad members in Yuen Long MTR, where anyone suspected of being a pro-democracy demonstrator returning from the march (particularly people in black, which has been the dress code) was brutally attacked. Police didn't arrive for 30 mins
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12:22 AM - Jul 22, 2019
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Some politicians and activists have linked Hong Kong's shadowy network of triad criminal gangs to political intimidation and violence in recent years, sometimes against pro-democracy activists and critics of Beijing.
Video released on Sunday night showed scores of men in white T-shirts, some armed with clubs, flooding into the rural Yuen Long station, storming a train, attacking passengers with pipes, poles and other objects.
Witnesses, including Democratic lawmaker Lam Cheuk-ting, said the men appeared to target black-shirted passengers who had been at an anti-government march.
Mr Lam, who was wounded in the face and hospitalised, said the police ignored calls he made, pleading with them to intervene to prevent bloodshed.
"They deliberately turned a blind eye to these attacks by triads on regular citizens," he said.
"I won't speculate on why they didn't help immediately."'It is a triad fight, not a normal confrontation'
PHOTO: Some protesters were left with substantial injuries following the attack. (AP via Apple Daily)Forty-five people were injured in the violence at the station, with one in critical condition, according to hospital authorities.
Hong Kong's police chief Stephen Lo, asked why police had been slow to respond to the clash at the station, said there had been a need to "redeploy manpower from other districts".
Police stations nearby had closed given the risk of unrest, and a patrol on the scene needed to wait for reinforcements, he said.
In a video released by a pro-democracy activist, a police commander is heard telling a Radio Television Hong Kong (RTKH) reporter that he didn't realise he was late because he didn't get the chance to look at his watch.
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Infuriating: Li Hon Man, a Hong Kong police division commander, tells reporters he has no idea whether cops were late to the scene in Yuen Long — where bands of thugs were beating civilians bloody with impunity — because he "couldn't see his watch."
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When pressed on why he wasn't able to detail when his unit arrived on the scene, he said:
"You think I'm scared? Of journalists? Come on."
Asked by a reporter if police had colluded with triads at the station, Mr Lo said the force had no links to triads.Witnesses saw groups of men in white with poles and bamboo staves at a nearby village but police later found no weapons and allowed the men to leave without making any arrests.
"We can't say you have a problem because you are dressed in white and we have to arrest you," said Yau Nai-keung, an assistant police commander in the area.
"We will treat them fairly no matter which camp they are in."
Some banks and shops in the area closed early on Monday amid fears of more trouble.
Hong Kong's anti-triad police units in 2014 investigated the role of triad gangs attacking protesters during the pro-democracy demonstrations that shut down parts of the city for 79 days that year.
PHOTO: Riot police were pictured speaking to men in white t-shirts accused of attacking pro-democracy protesters.(Reuters: Tyrone Siu)Alvin Yeung, a barrister and lawmaker with the pro-democracy Civic Party, said he was sure the men were from gangs.
"I hope that the police will not deceive themselves," Mr Yeung said.
"It is a triad fight, and not a normal confrontation."
Beijing stares down latest Hong Kong unrest
PHOTO: State newspaper Xinhua said that defacing China's national emblem "caused unbearable pain and anger". (AP: Bobby Yip, file)Hong Kong has been rocked by its most serious crisis since Britain handed the Asian financial hub back to Chinese rule in 1997.
A British past and Chinese future
Take a look at how Hong Kong's near-200-year history has shaped the territory while prompting the largest protests in its history.
Under the terms of the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984, Hong Kong was allowed to retain extensive freedoms not enjoyed on the mainland under a "one country, two systems" formula, including an independent judiciary and the right to protest for a period of 50 years.
In 2017, the 20th anniversary of handover, Beijing said the document was not binding and had "no longer any practical significance".
Many city residents fear the proposed extradition law, which would allow extraditions with other jurisdictions including that of mainland China, would undermine Hong Kong's judicial independence.
Critics of the law also alleged that it would make it far easier for Beijing to silence its critics in Hong Kong.
The city's Beijing-backed government, responding to the scale of the protests, have not officially withdrawn it from the legislature, but Chief Executive Lam said the bill was "dead".
There have been numerous calls on her to resign.
PHOTO: Protestors have begun donning gas masks to minimise the effects of tear gas thrown by police. (AP via HK01: Eric Tsang)A political manifesto first revealed when protesters stormed Hong Kong's Legislative Council was re-iterated by protesters.
Hong Kong's pro-democracy manifesto
- Universal suffrage
- Direct voting rights for all Hong Kong residents
- Dropping charges against anti-extradition protesters
- Stopping the clashes between protesters and police being labelled a "riot"
- Dissolving the Legislative Council
They are also demanding independent inquiries into the use of the police against protesters.
On Sunday, police fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse activists after thousands had ringed Beijing's Liaison Office.
The police said in statement that protesters hurled bricks, smoke grenades and petrol bombs during the unrest that came after hundreds of thousands marched through the city streets.
The Chinese government, including office director Wang Zhimin, condemned the turmoil, which included spray-painting and hurling eggs at walls and a national emblem at the office, saying the behaviour challenged the "authority and dignity" of the Chinese government.
From optimism to a siege
Following Hong Kong's handover to China in 1997, relations between the mainland and the autonomous territory have plummeted. Now anti-Chinese sentiment is at an all-time high.
A foreign ministry spokesman said such acts tested Beijing's limits.
"Some radical protestor behaviour violated our bottom line of 'one country, two systems'. We cannot tolerate that," said foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang.
The unrest in Hong Kong marks the greatest popular challenge to Chinese leader Xi Jinping since he came to power in 2012.ABC/Reuters
They beat up a pregnant woman and an old man, commuters on the train. You are a sick fuck
