'I don't think we will miss anything. This is also a form of learning,' said a 19-year-old university student who boycotting lessons.
Thousands of black-clad students rallied in central Hong Kong Monday at the start of a two-week university boycott, piling pressure on the city's leaders to resolve months of increasingly violent anti-government protests that show no sign of easing.
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said Monday the protests had"gone beyond the scope of freedom of assembly and demonstration". On Monday, as universities reopened after the summer break, thousands of students skipped classes and gathered instead in central Hong Kong. "Hong Kong is our home... we are the future of the city and have to take up responsibility to save it," said a 17-year-old secondary school student who gave her surname as Wong.One nurse suggested the protest is doomed because China will never allow the Hong Kong government to concede to protester demands.
Video footage captured by local media showed police charge and beat people cowering inside a train carriage, with Amnesty International calling their actions"horrifying".Hong Kong's security minister described protester violence as"on the verge of being out-of-control".
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