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    Hong Kong teachers join anti-government protest

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    Hong Kong school teacher numbering several thousand and supporters braved thunderstorms on Saturday to start a weekend of anti-government protests.

    This is amidst fears that police could adopt tougher tactics to drive activists off the streets.

    Following the outbreak of violence during the past few days, the demonstrations this weekend is expected to provide a litmus test as to whether the protest movement can retain the broad support that it has appeared to enjoy.

    Demonstrators said they are fighting the erosion of the “one country, two systems” arrangement that enshrined some autonomy for Hong Kong since China took it back from Britain in 1997.

    During the past week, they have increasingly directed their frustrations toward police, who have responded with fiercer determination to clear them from the streets.

    A music teacher at a local secondary school, Yu, said she was determined to show support for protesting students, even though she didn’t agree with all their actions.

    “I do appreciate their courage and caring about Hong Kong…they are definitely braver than our government,’’ she said.

    The teachers’ rally – which organisers estimated drew 22,000 people whereas police said 8,300 – had been approved by the police.

    After gathering peacefully in the Central business district, they marched on the Government House residence of Hong Kong’s embattled leader Carrie Lam, chanting “Hong Kong police know the law, they break the law”.

    “If Carrie bothered to respond to our demands at the very beginning, nobody would get hurt,’’ Lee, a retired primary school teacher, said.

    Anti-government demonstrators were also expected to march through Kowloon districts popular with traders and tourists from mainland China.

    The pro-democracy Civil Human Rights Front, which organised peaceful million-strong marches in June, has scheduled another protest for Sunday.

    “We all feel tensions are building and the level of stress is increasing,’’ one front-line protester, Pun, 22, told Reuters during a sit-in at the international airport earlier in the week.

    “I know violence cannot fight violence but sometimes aggression is needed to attract the attention of the government and others’

    “I have thrown rocks…I have also been hit by police with batons.

    “We’re all slowly getting used to this,’’ Pun said.

    Thousands of mostly young protesters forced a shutdown of flights at the city’s Chek Lap Kok international airport on Monday, disrupting flights until late Tuesday.

    The increasingly violent confrontations have plunged one of Asia’s financial capitals into its worst crisis for decades.

    The unrest also presents one of the biggest challenges for Chinese President, Xi Jinping, since he came to power in 2012.

    Western governments, including the United States, have stepped up calls for restraint following ugly and chaotic scenes at the airport.

    On Friday, the Chief Executive of Cathay Pacific Airways quit after China’s aviation regulator demanded the Hong Kong carrier suspend staff involved in or supporting the protests.

    Chinese officials have likened some actions by protesters to “terrorism” and Chinese state media outlets have urged tougher response from Hong Kong police.

    Clashes became noticeably fiercer during the past week.

    Protesters have used slingshots to fire marbles at police, shone lasers at them and at times thrown bricks and firebombs.

    Having fired tear gas to disperse protesters in the streets, and at one point in a subway station, police are warning that they could get tougher.

    Although their stations have been targeted scores of times during the crisis, police have so far refrained from deploying armoured cars, which could smash through barricades.

    Nor have they used water cannon – two were purchased in 2014 – or unleashed the force’s dog squad on protesters.

    “We have in place a more flexible strategy,’’ one police officer said.

    “We are in a far better position to have a more efficient and rapid response.’’

    Across the border, in the mainland city of Shenzhen, China’s People’s Armed Police units have staged extensive drills in recent days, but Hong Kong police say they can handle the situation.

    As protesters have employed a flash-mob strategy, withdrawing when police advance, only to re-appear elsewhere, police have also begun using undercover officers, disguised as protesters, to gather intelligence and make arrests.

    Some 750 have been arrested by police since the unrest began in June, and some of them have been charged with rioting, which can attract a 10-year jail term as punishment.

    In some cases, the arrests have been accompanied by extensive property searches and seizure of phones and computers, police sources say.

    “They are doing these hit and run lately,’’ one senior police officer told media earlier this week.

    “Arrests should be a natural consequence.

    “If we can arrest more and more because they are undertaking illegal acts, so be it.’’ 

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