Hong Kong activist Jimmy Sham likened chief executive Carrie Lam’s offer to a ‘knife’ that had been plunged into the city. — AFPHong Kong was braced for another mass rally Sunday as public anger seethed following unprecedented clashes between protesters and police over an extradition law, despite a climbdown by the city’s embattled leader in suspending the bill.
The city was rocked by the worst political violence since its 1997 handover to China on Wednesday as tens of thousands of protesters were dispersed by riot police firing tear gas and rubber bullets. “It’s almost reached our heart. Now the government said they won’t push it, but they also refuse to pull it out,“ he told reporters.On Sunday afternoon, protesters are set to march from a park on the main island to the city’s parliament – a repeat of a massive rally a week earlier that organisers said more than a million people attended.
Suspending the bill has done little to defuse simmering public anger. The protest movement has morphed in recent days from one specifically aimed at scrapping the extradition bill to a wider display of anger at Lam and Beijing over years of sliding freedoms. Police said they had no choice but to use force to meet violent protesters who besieged their lines outside the city’s parliament on Wednesday.
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