With wooden catapults to launch petrol bombs and bows and arrows pilfered from sports departments, Hong Kong's democracy protesters are combining new tactics with medieval tech as they battle police.
Those include sports gear - javelins and bows and arrows lifted from university storerooms, as well as tennis racquets to bat away tear-gas canisters. The campus faces the Cross Harbour tunnel, a key route between the Kowloon peninsula, which is connected by land to the Chinese mainland, and the finance centre of Hong Kong Island.Protesters closed the link late Wednesday and had rolled a catapult into view of the tunnel in case police tried to breach the barricade.
Nearly six months on, the leaderless protest movement remains characterised by ingenuity and collective action.But it is now also defined by increasing paranoia and violence in the face of a police force protesters accuse of brutality - and an unyielding government.
Imagine if Australian students shut down Melbourne and Sydney for three months and threw Molotov cocktails at the police How would we react Assume Politicians in the UK were cheering them on and it was backed by the CIA
This is what happens when you let them keep criminals in own city and not extradited so they can be properly dealt with
WHAT ABOUT CHILE !?
Then they'll complain that police are too harsh. They deserve it! HongKongers
Does anyone think this will end well? Why are our Governments drafting legislation to stop protests in Australia whilst cheering on Molotov cocktail lobbing protestors in Hong Kong The protest in Iraq has seen hundreds killed and tens of thousands injured, they have Democracy
Don't think things are going to end well with this increase in violence unfortunately.
Medieval tech of 'burning civilians alive' too?
Let's hope China does not go medieval on the protesting students.
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