Hong Kong protesters torched a pile of barricades after police fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse thousands of protesters on the streets. More here:
HONG KONG - Hong Kong police fired tear gas and water cannon on Saturday and pro-democracy protesters threw petrol bombs in the latest in a series of chaotic clashes that have plunged the Chinese-ruled city into its worst political crisis in decades.
“We don’t know how to stop this, how to stop the violence,” said Celia Liu, who offers emotional counseling to protesters, as she watched riot police form a barrier across one of the world’s busiest shopping districts, Causeway Bay.The protests, which at one point blocked three key roads, came on the fifth anniversary of a decision by China to curtail democratic reforms and rule out universal suffrage in Hong Kong, a former British colony that was returned to China in 1997.
Other protesters, many wearing black and face masks, marched in Causeway Bay. The crowds grew after dusk in Wanchai, where demonstrators built roadblocks and banged iron sticks. Firemen battled a huge blaze outside a Methodist church in the main Hennessy Road where water cannon moved in. The protests have gone on for three months, sometimes turning violent, and have targeted the airport, the legislature and the Liaison Office, the symbol of Chinese rule.
Beijing has also accused foreign powers, particularly the United States and Britain, of fomenting the demonstrations.
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