From the Pro-Democracy demonstrations
Michel Kennedy
by our correspondent Michael Kennedy in Hong Kong
Dateline: Hong Kong. Today nearly 5,000 Pro-Democracy protestors occupied the arrival and departures area of the Hong Kong International Airport, forcing the cancellation of over 500 in-coming and out-going flights. This was in response to police posing as demonstrators, and arresting genuine protestors on unspecified charges of unlawful behavior. Protestors were also outraged that police - in firing projectiles to disperse the demonstrators on Nathan Road Sunday night, wounded a woman and put out her eye.
When Hong Kong police arrived on the scene of the occupied airport, prepared to use tear gas and make mass arrests o break up the protest, demonstrators - using Bruce Lee’s maxim: “Be like water,” spread throughout the airport and faded away.
This marks the 10th week of political demonstrations in the former British Crown Colony, offering resistance to Beijing's growing control over Hong Kong government and basic civil liberties.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/world/asia/hong-kong-airport-protest-cancellations.html
