HONG KONG, Nov 22 — Black shadows flitting around in small groups, deserted rubbish-strewn corridors and cockroaches in disemboweled kitchens: Dawn broke today to reveal a post-apocalyptic scene at a Hong Kong campus six days after a police siege began. In a near-empty, soundless labyrinth, Hong...
A protester walks on the campus of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University , in Hong Kong November 21, 2019. — Reuters pic
The pro-democracy protesters holding this brick “fortress” are almost invisible as they hide among the maze of rooms and corridors.They are dressed and masked in black, the signature colour of the pro-democracy movement that over the past six months has turned into the biggest challenge to China’s rule of Hong Kong since the city was returned from Britain in 1997.
But after being ransacked in the early stages of the siege, empty pots, paper cups and knives litter the canteen. This “brave” — as the front-line protesters call them — fears being arrested and facing serious charges. Today Hong Kong’s new police commissioner said there was “no deadline” for the holdouts to leave the university.
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