University Standoff Ends as Protesters Leave: Hong Kong Update More (Bloomberg) — A five-day standoff between protesters and police at Chinese University of Hong Kong ended Friday as the activists evacuated their makeshift fortress and left the campus.
On Saturday morning workers had cleared the debris from Tolo Highway beneath the bridge blockaded by protesters. The demonstrators appeared to have abandoned the campus, according to a university spokesman. Earlier, CUHK vice chancellor Rocky Tuan made a fresh appeal for protesters, who had built barricades and taken over certain buildings, to leave campus.
“The University is a place of learning, not a weapons factory, battlefield for violent acts, or political arena,” he said in a letter released just past midnight. “If the University should find it impossible to execute our core functions and mission, we will have no choice but to seek assistance from relevant government departments to help us resolve the difficult situation.”
The city’s government is trying to step up measures to halt escalating violence in the financial center, after a week of some of the worst clashes in the five months of unrest, with countless incidents of vandalism, angry clashes between opposing sides and two deaths linked to the conflict. […]
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