Hong Kong police want to use real bullets to suppress demonstrations | Chronic

The Association of Low-Graduate Police Officers of Hong Kong, the largest in the special administrative region, asked on Monday to use real ammunition to cope with protests that have been going on in the city for more than three months.

The agency has estimated that the bricks and Molotov badtails thrown by some violent protesters during clashes with the police can be deadly, "So a stronger answer is justified than the use of tear gas or rubber bullets".

Clashes erupted again Sunday in the former British colony, after the police banned a demonstration called by the Civil Rights Front, in which the agents reacted with deadly lines. water and tear gas at the launch of bricks, pavers and Molotov Cocktails.

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"If agents are threatened, they must use appropriate and reasonable force to protect themselves and others", For what "the use of real ammunition should be weighed," evaluated the police entity.

Mbad demonstrations began in early June against the controversial draft law on extradition to China which, according to lawyers, activists and opponents, would have allowed Beijing to access "Fugitive" refugees on the soil of Hong Kong and try them on Chinese territory in a system without guarantees.

After all a summer of mbad protests, whose escalation of violence continues to grow, the director general, Carrie Lam, decided on September 4 to formally withdraw the bill, which had been tabled and declared "Dead" before, but failed to allay popular discontent.

In addition to the official withdrawal of the text, four additional requests are required: the independent investigation into police brutality at the time of the dispersal of demonstrations, the amnesty of all those arrested, the withdrawal of the warrant "revolt" the June 12 protests and universal suffrage to elect local leaders.

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Under the formula & # 39;One country, two systemsBeijing has pledged to maintain a series of freedoms in Hong Kong for 50 years – unimaginable on Chinese soil – since it regained its sovereignty in 1997 after more than fifty years of British colonial rule.