Students have been the backbone of a movement that sprang up to oppose government plans to allow extraditions to China. FMTNews
Thousands of university students started a boycott of classes with a mass rally in support of Hong Kong’s anti-government protests.
Hundreds have been arrested in violent clashes with police, and an increasingly shrill Beijing has labelled protesters “terrorists”, with an editorial by China’s state news agency Sunday warning “the end is coming”. “Today is the first day of school, but I still want to come out,” a 19-year-old university student named Tommy told AFP.Earlier Monday a call for a general strike went largely unheeded, but riot police patrolled some subway stations after protesters briefly disrupted services during rush hour by preventing the train doors from closing.
“But we still have to stand and say something. At least we have shown the world what is happening,” she told AFP, requesting anonymity. On Saturday, hardcore protesters rampaged through the city centre, setting fires and throwing petrol bombs at riot police in defiance of a rally ban. Embattled city leader Carrie Lam has done little to directly address the crisis, save offer to form a largely derided “platform for dialogue”.
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