Umbrella Movement Day 65 Violent clashes between protesters and police as students admit failure over CGO siege
Monday 1 December 2014 | Recap by Roydon Ng (www.roydonng.net/blog) FB: Roydon Ng Twitter: @RoydonNg
Monday 1 December 2014 | Recap by Roydon Ng (www.roydonng.net/blog) FB: Roydon Ng Twitter: @RoydonNg
- After a night of violent clashes between protests and police around the Central Government Offices in Admiralty, both sides appear to be fatigued but are remaining persistent as they stand off on the streets.
- Police have moved in on Tamar Park clearing protesters and tents from the area. Officers charged at protesters after projectiles including water bottles and umbrellas were hurled at the police line.
- Protesters around Umbrella Square and the main stage under the Admiralty footbridge have began blockading the escalators on the side of the footbridge in an attempt to prevent police from gaining access to the site to perform a clearance. Police have also removed a number of banners hanging from the Admiralty footbridge as part of the operation.
- Clashes have broken out between protesters and police at the entrance of the Admiralty MTR station with protesters chanting at police to 'drop your batons'. Several protesters are injured in the clashes are quickly moved to first aid stations in the Admiralty protest zone outside the MTR station.
- A small fire has broken out at the People's Liberation Army barrack's resident building. Firefighters attend to the location. The fire is not related to the ongoing protests.
- Leung Chun-ying, Chief Executive has stated that the police's tolerance is not a sign of weakness and that the Beijing and he are sincere about bringing elections to Hong Kong in 2017. John Tsang, Financial Secretary says the students' calls to occupy Tamar are irresponsible and has warned of long-term damage.
- The Chinese government has defended its decision to bar a number of British MPs from entering Hong Kong affirming its sovereignty and right to decide who enters the territory. This comes as an emergency debate is held in the British parliament regarding Beijing's decision to prohibit several of its MPs from entering Hong Kong.
- A police officer has reportedly committed suicide inside the Hung Hum police station.
- Ronny Tong a moderate pro-democracy legislator has said that police and protesters should stop pointing fingers and condemning each other and should focus on building consensus for political reform.
- Alex Chow, student protest leader with HKFS has expressed his disappointment at last night's protest actions saying that although the escalation and siege of the Central Government Offices lasted until the morning it failed to disrupt government operations. The Central Government Offices were reopened in the afternoon after the police launched a crackdown on protesters in the early hours of Monday.
- Division between the protest groups are also growing with a number of protesters upset at some pro-democracy factions for a lack of front-line involvement in the standoff and clashes with police.
| |  Police ordering the crowds to move on as the clearance of Tamar takes place. Picture Source: SocREC/Facebook |
雨傘革命/運動在香港的65天。（2014年12月1日）
- 後在周圍金鐘政府合署的抗議和警察之間的暴力衝突的夜晚，雙方似乎是疲倦，但他們站在場外的街道上剩餘的執著。
- 警方已在添馬公園清理示威者和帳篷從該地區移動。彈丸包括礦泉水瓶和雨傘後收取示威人員被投擲在警察行。
- 圍繞傘廣場和在金鐘天橋的主舞台示威者封鎖開始在天橋一側的自動扶梯，試圖阻止警察從接觸到的部位進行清關。警方還刪除了一些橫幅掛在金鐘天橋作為操作的一部分。
- 衝突已經爆發了示威者和警察之間的金鐘地鐵站有示威者高呼，在警方的入口處，“放下你的警棍”。幾個示威者在衝突中受傷被迅速轉移到急救站，在地鐵站外的金鐘抗議區。
- 小火一直在解放軍軍營的居民樓爆發。消防隊員參加的位置。火是不相關的正在進行的抗議活動。
- 梁振英，行政長官已表示，警方的寬容不是軟弱的北京和標誌，他是有誠意約在2017年曾俊華將選舉香港 財政司司長表示，學生的電話佔據添馬艦是不負責任的，並警告說，長期的損害。
- 中國政府捍衛其進入香港肯定其主權，並有權決定誰進入境內禁止一些英國國會議員的決定。此際，緊急辯論是關於北京的決定，禁止它的幾個國會議員進入香港舉行的英國議會。
- 據報導，一名警官已經自殺了紅磡警署內。
- 湯家驊議員溫和民主派立法會議員說，警方和示威者應該停止指責和譴責對方，並應著眼於建立共識的政治改革。
- 亞歷克斯週，學生抗議領導者，學聯已表達了他的 失望 ，昨晚的抗議行動表示，雖然 中區政府合署的 升級 和 圍攻一直持續到早晨，未能破壞政府的運作。中區政府合署 重新開放 ，下午後，警方在凌晨週一發起了示威者進行鎮壓。
- 是的抗議團體的分工也越來越大了一些示威者打亂一些親民主派的缺乏一線參與對峙，並與警方發生衝突。